From south-bay-birds-bounces+south-bay-birds-archive=[[email protected]] Mon Sep 1 18:39:26 2003 Received: from www.plaidworks.com (localhost [127.0.0.1]) by plaidworks.com (8.12.9/8.12.9) with ESMTP id h821bgkX009148 for <[[email protected]]>; Mon, 1 Sep 2003 18:37:43 -0700 (PDT) Received: from imo-m04.mx.aol.com (imo-m04.mx.aol.com [64.12.136.7]) by plaidworks.com (8.12.9/8.12.9) with ESMTP id h821YqVK009090 for <[[email protected]]>; Mon, 1 Sep 2003 18:35:07 -0700 (PDT) Received: from [[email protected]] by imo-m04.mx.aol.com (mail_out_v36_r1.1.) id t.ac.46ededa7 (3858) for <[[email protected]]>; Mon, 1 Sep 2003 21:34:49 -0400 (EDT) From: [[email protected]] Message-ID: <[[email protected]]> Date: Mon, 1 Sep 2003 21:34:48 EDT To: [[email protected]] MIME-Version: 1.0 X-Mailer: 7.0 for Windows sub 10633 Content-Type: text/plain; charset="US-ASCII" Content-Transfer-Encoding: 7bit X-Content-Filtered-By: Mailman/MimeDel 2.1.2+ Subject: [SBB] GGOW at Chevron Meadows 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: Although this is an "out-of-the-area" sighting, I think there are some that would want to hear. On Wednesday, August 27, I headed for Yosemite in order to better observe Mars' close approach. I stopped and was sitting in my car drinking coffee and eating a Pop Tart, just a few feet from the Chevron Station gas pumps ... enjoying the slight view out towards Chevron Meadow. At 5:45 PM a Great Grey Owl flew in and landed on a fencepost-like broken off young pine! It remained while I set up the Questar and showed a number of others, including the station attendants. (Calculations indicate that it was about 150 feet from my car.) At 6:05 the bird silently disappeared while I was explaining things to a tourist. But then it immediately flew back in from the right, carrying what looked to be a large squirrel, and flew over that perch and landed somewhere in the tangle of dead pines between the gas station and the Tioga Road. I left it to its meal. Other notable sightings were: a male and a female Black-backed Woodpecker along the McGurk Meadow trail, a small family of Mountain Quail along this same trail, and numerous Blue Grouse overrunning Glacier Point. (Some of the astronomers thought they were extremely tame Turkeys.) Frank Vanslager _______________________________________________ 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]]