From south-bay-birds-bounces+south-bay-birds-archive=[[email protected]] Fri Nov 7 17:32:41 2003 Received: from www.plaidworks.com (localhost [127.0.0.1]) by plaidworks.com (8.12.9/8.12.9) with ESMTP id hA81Od6V023887 for <[[email protected]]>; Fri, 7 Nov 2003 17:24:40 -0800 (PST) Received: from imo-r04.mx.aol.com (imo-r04.mx.aol.com [152.163.225.100]) by plaidworks.com (8.12.9/8.12.9) with ESMTP id hA81NeMU023848 for <[[email protected]]>; Fri, 7 Nov 2003 17:23:40 -0800 (PST) Received: from [[email protected]] by imo-r04.mx.aol.com (mail_out_v36_r1.1.) id t.12f.348b23b0 (17079) for <[[email protected]]>; Fri, 7 Nov 2003 20:23:32 -0500 (EST) From: [[email protected]] Message-ID: <[[email protected]]> Date: Fri, 7 Nov 2003 20:23:32 EST To: [[email protected]] MIME-Version: 1.0 X-Mailer: 9.0 for Windows sub 5100 Content-Type: text/plain; charset="US-ASCII" Content-Transfer-Encoding: 7bit X-Content-Filtered-By: Mailman/MimeDel 2.1.2+ Subject: [SBB] Vasona 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]] Good evening SBBers.... On my way to the Wild Bird Center around 3PM today I decided to stop off and check out Vasona.... Lots of Snowy Egrets (18) and Great Egrets (7) were in the water. The water level in all areas is pretty low...lots of mud flats which is where I saw a Yellowlegs for the first time (at Vasona). Lots of Ring-billed gulls, hundreds of Canada Geese and the Common Mergansers (9) were wonderful to see..... The large oak tree by the docks was jumping with Yellow-rumps, Ruby-crowned Kinglets, Chickadees, Oak titmice, Juncos and House Finches. On my way driving out, in the driveway of the Ranger's Station was a Cooper's Hawk that had just caught a Rock Dove....I stopped and watched this amazing bird feed on this Dove....from the trees behind the Ranger's station a calling Red-shouldered Hawk could be heard by both the Cooper's and myself. The Cooper's Hawk had the tightest grip on the Rock Dove (which was still alive as the hawk was pulling out his feathers). The hawk was quite nervous with the RSHA calling. A Crow passed over and the Cooper's spread it wings out to cover the now dead Rock Dove....it was truly amazing to watch... Wishing you good birding and my best regards, Linda Sullivan _______________________________________________ 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]]