From south-bay-birds-bounces+south-bay-birds-archive=[[email protected]] Sat Nov 8 17:48:12 2003 Received: from www.plaidworks.com (localhost [127.0.0.1]) by plaidworks.com (8.12.9/8.12.9) with ESMTP id hA91jj6X015026 for <[[email protected]]>; Sat, 8 Nov 2003 17:45:45 -0800 (PST) Received: from mtaw6.prodigy.net (mtaw6.prodigy.net [64.164.98.56]) by plaidworks.com (8.12.9/8.12.9) with ESMTP id hA91iWMU014988 for <[[email protected]]>; Sat, 8 Nov 2003 17:44:32 -0800 (PST) Received: from [192.168.1.100] (adsl-66-126-229-44.dsl.sntc01.pacbell.net [66.126.229.44]) by mtaw6.prodigy.net (8.12.10/8.12.10) with ESMTP id hA91i2Vt018546 for <[[email protected]]>; Sat, 8 Nov 2003 17:44:02 -0800 (PST) Mime-Version: 1.0 X-Sender: [[email protected]] Message-Id: Date: Sat, 8 Nov 2003 17:44:34 -0800 To: [[email protected]] From: Gordon Barrett <[[email protected]]> Content-Type: text/plain; charset="us-ascii" ; format="flowed" Subject: [SBB] Hooded Mergansers & Osprey 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]] Between showers today, Saturday, 11/8, my sister and I visited the Campbell Perk Ponds and Los Gatos Creek. The OSPREY was perched on the first island before the parking station, way out on a branch that extends over the water. We later saw a KINGFISHER on a similar branch over the creek upstream from the footbridge. If there is anyone reading this who has not yet seen the HOODED MERGANSERs, skip the game tomorrow and visit the large pond across the footbridge to the left. Other than a Wood Duck, no other bird is so too-perfect-to-be-real to me. There are four pairs. One male brought a crawfish to the surface and did battle for a while until he ate it. This pond also had 18 RUDDY DUCKS or so. There were 300 plus DOUBLE-CRESTED CORMORANTS diving for and bringing up fish to swallow in plain sight. I don't know how long the fish can last at the rate we watched them being consumed in the Osprey pond. The large pond on the bike trail side of the footbridge had lots of GADWALL, a few AMERICAN WIGEON, and one female CANVASBACK. The usual Ring-necked Ducks were absent. The rest of a short list: Pied-billed Grebe Double-Crested Cormorant Canada Goose Mallard Gadwall American Wigeon Canvasback Hooded Merganser Ruddy Duck American Coot California Gull (4) Great Blue Heron Great Egret Green Heron Osprey Mourning Dove Rock Dove (Feral Pigeon) Anna's Hummingbird Belted Kingfisher Black Phoebe Gordon -- Gordon Barrett [[email protected]] _______________________________________________ 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]]