From south-bay-birds-bounces+south-bay-birds-archive=[[email protected]] Thu May 29 16:30:43 2003 Received: from www.plaidworks.com (localhost [127.0.0.1]) by plaidworks.com (8.12.9/8.12.9) with ESMTP id h4TNSXaA019289 for <[[email protected]]>; Thu, 29 May 2003 16:28:33 -0700 (PDT) Received: from rtjones.nas.nasa.gov (rtjones.nas.nasa.gov [129.99.19.30]) by plaidworks.com (8.12.9/8.12.9) with ESMTP id h4TNR6fF019241 for <[[email protected]]>; Thu, 29 May 2003 16:27:07 -0700 (PDT) Received: (from mrogers@localhost) by rtjones.nas.nasa.gov (SGI-8.9.3p2/8.9.3/NAS 8.9.3-5n) id QAA56563 for [[email protected]]; Thu, 29 May 2003 16:27:06 -0700 (PDT) Date: Thu, 29 May 2003 16:27:06 -0700 (PDT) From: "Dr. Michael M. Rogers" <[[email protected]]> Message-Id: <[[email protected]]> To: [[email protected]] Subject: [SBB] Alviso salt ponds X-BeenThere: [[email protected]] X-Mailman-Version: 2.1.2+ Precedence: list List-Id: South Bay Birding List-Unsubscribe: , List-Post: List-Help: List-Subscribe: , Sender: south-bay-birds-bounces+south-bay-birds-archive=[[email protected]] Errors-To: south-bay-birds-bounces+south-bay-birds-archive=[[email protected]] All, Today 5/29/03, Mike Mammoser and I did a Snowy Plover survey of Salt Ponds A9 through A15. We didn't find any Snowy Plovers here, although plenty of potential Snowy Plover predators were around in the form of 3 NORTHERN HARRIERS, 11 COMMON RAVENS, and thousands of CALIFORNIA GULLS (including many nesting on the dike between A9 and A10). Also nesting on this dike were DOUBLE-CRESTED CORMORANTS, with 54 occupied nests and about 125 birds standing around. AMERICAN WHITE PELICANS were present in good numbers, with at least 79 seen. More surprising was a single adult BROWN PELICAN on the A9/A10 dike, very unusual for this early in the summer in the south bay. Other birds included 1 PIED-BILLED, 32 EARED (all alternate plumaged), 1 WESTERN, 3 CLARK'S, and 1 AECHMO SP. GREBES, 17 CASPIAN TERNS, 2 male BROWN-HEADED COWBIRDS at Triangle Marsh, and a pair of AMERICAN GOLDFINCH at the southeast corner of pond A10. The most interesting bird of the day eluded positive identification. A flock of 10 LONG-BILLED CURLEWS that crossed the dike north of the Marina and then headed northwest over pond A12 contained two godwits. One was an obvious MARBLED, but the other was completely gray, lacking any cinnamon tones. It may have just been a very worn, bleached Marbled, but it could also have been a Bar-tailed. Unfortunately, even though we later found 10 LONG-BILLED CURLEWS out along Coyote Slough there were no godwits with them. At least 75 MARBLED GODWITS were further east in the slough (along with 21 WILLETS), but we could not find any gray birds among them. Mike Rogers _______________________________________________ Do not post admin requests to the list. They will be ignored. south-bay-birds mailing list ([[email protected]]) Help/Unsubscribe/Update your Subscription: http://www.plaidworks.com/mailman/options/south-bay-birds/south-bay-birds-archive%40plaidworks.com This email sent to [[email protected]]