From south-bay-birds-bounces+south-bay-birds-archive=[[email protected]] Mon Nov 10 14:37:41 2003 Received: from www.plaidworks.com (localhost [127.0.0.1]) by plaidworks.com (8.12.9/8.12.9) with ESMTP id hAAMYB6W028546 for <[[email protected]]>; Mon, 10 Nov 2003 14:34:11 -0800 (PST) Received: from zcamail05.zca.compaq.com (zcamail05.zca.compaq.com [161.114.32.105]) by plaidworks.com (8.12.9/8.12.9) with ESMTP id hAAMX6MU028477 for <[[email protected]]>; Mon, 10 Nov 2003 14:33:06 -0800 (PST) Received: from cacexg11.americas.cpqcorp.net (cacexg11.americas.cpqcorp.net [16.105.250.94]) by zcamail05.zca.compaq.com (Postfix) with ESMTP id 80C44BE7F; Mon, 10 Nov 2003 14:33:05 -0800 (PST) Received: from cacexc02.americas.cpqcorp.net ([16.105.250.99]) by cacexg11.americas.cpqcorp.net with Microsoft SMTPSVC(6.0.3790.0); Mon, 10 Nov 2003 14:33:04 -0800 X-MimeOLE: Produced By Microsoft Exchange V6.0.6375.0 content-class: urn:content-classes:message MIME-Version: 1.0 Date: Mon, 10 Nov 2003 14:33:04 -0800 Message-ID: <[[email protected]]> X-MS-Has-Attach: X-MS-TNEF-Correlator: Thread-Topic: Jasper Ridge birding Thread-Index: AcOn2psbG0DjL9+rQmujpo3gje4J5g== From: "Jeffers, Richard" <[[email protected]]> To: <[[email protected]]>, <[[email protected]]> X-OriginalArrivalTime: 10 Nov 2003 22:33:04.0954 (UTC) FILETIME=[9B77E1A0:01C3A7DA] Content-Type: text/plain; charset="us-ascii" X-Content-Filtered-By: Mailman/MimeDel 2.1.2+ Cc: Subject: [SBB] Jasper Ridge birding 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]] Content-Transfer-Encoding: 8bit X-MIME-Autoconverted: from quoted-printable to 8bit by plaidworks.com id hAAMYB6W028546 All, I did my monthly bird survey on Jasper Ridge on Saturday morning between rain fronts. This month it was up on the grassland, and the weather, while overcast, was actually pretty decent. The most interesting observation was 11 White-tailed Kites perched together on the tops of some chaparral bushes near the end of the serpentine grassland. There were two 1st-year birds in the group, which could belong to a family group up there. Presumably the rest are visitors. It would be interesting to hear if anyone else sees a gathering of WTKI here in the next few months. WTKI are known to roost communally, and perhaps this group is assembling on Jasper Ridge (for the winter?). When a Red-tailed Hawk flew too close, all of the kites took to the air. One of them leisurely dive-bombed the RTHA until it moved further away. Then the kites settled down again but scattered over a wider area, including the Blue Oak woodland and chaparral. One Cooper's Hawk circled in and over a different grassland point, being pursued by two ravens. This was during my 7-minute interval, so I counted both species. I've had COHA as a bird in the censuses before, but this is the first time I could justify including CORA. They were clearly chasing the COHA, so I figure that counts as using the airspace rather than just the typical flyover situation more commonly seen. After leaving Jasper Ridge, I spotted 2 Golden Eagles perched on the grassy hills along the northeast side of I-280 roughly half way between Alpine and Page Mill exits. One bird was clearly an adult, while the second looked like it was probably a sub-adult bird. Cheers, Richard _______________________________________________ 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]]