From south-bay-birds-bounces+south-bay-birds-archive=[[email protected]] Sat Sep 6 15:30:13 2003 Received: from www.plaidworks.com (localhost [127.0.0.1]) by plaidworks.com (8.12.9/8.12.9) with ESMTP id h86MSGIE001103 for <[[email protected]]>; Sat, 6 Sep 2003 15:28:17 -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 h86MQbZP001045 for <[[email protected]]>; Sat, 6 Sep 2003 15:26:38 -0700 (PDT) Received: (from mrogers@localhost) by rtjones.nas.nasa.gov (SGI-8.9.3p2/8.9.3/NAS 8.9.3-5n) id PAA06281 for [[email protected]]; Sat, 6 Sep 2003 15:26:37 -0700 (PDT) Date: Sat, 6 Sep 2003 15:26:37 -0700 (PDT) From: "Dr. Michael M. Rogers" <[[email protected]]> Message-Id: <[[email protected]]> To: [[email protected]] Subject: [SBB] migrants, BLACK TERNS 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, This morning 9/6/03, I spent a couple of hours birding the new reveg area by the trailer at CCFS and the areas along the creek further north, from the crossover to the area near the heron rookery. Mike Mammoser joined me for the last 20 minutes or so. There was no huge migrant fallout :( but persistence paid off in locating reasonable numbers of the more expected migrants: 16 "WESTERN" FLYCATCHERS (all calling being PACIFIC-SLOPE), 22+ YELLOW WARBLERS, 1 WILSON'S WARBLER, 4 WESTERN TANAGERS, 4 SWAINSON'S THRUSHES, 2 BLACK-HEADED GROSBEAKS, 3 HOUSE WRENS, and 2 WILLOW FLYCATCHERS (plus another being banded). An adult PEREGRINE FALCON cruised north over the riparian corridor early in the morning. Mike and I then headed to the EEC in Alviso, finding a single YELLOW WARBLER and 3 VAUX'S SWIFTS. New Chicago Marsh held 34 WILSON'S PHALAROPES and 7 LESSER YELLOWLEGS. The swallow flock in Alviso contained 3 lingering CLIFF SWALLOWS. On the way home I saw a BURROWING OWL perched on a cylindrical brick structure in the weedy field on the left just after making the right turn onto Yerba Buena after going under Highway 237. This is the third time I have seen one perched here in the last month. After getting a call from Mike Mammoser about his Common Tern, I threw my bike in the car and headed to the Sunnyvale Water Pollution Control Plant ponds. When I arrived, Bob and Frank informed me that they had just flushed the bird by walking the western dike so I was not optimistic about refinding it. By the time I got out there, however, I was able to refind the roosting COMMON TERN among 104 FORSTER'S TERNS. It flew off after a few minutes, but shortly thereafter I found 2 juvenile BLACK TERNS foraging over the west pond near the start of the central twin dikes. These birds hung around from about 2:25pm until at least 2:50pm, when I left. They also spent some of their time roosting on the western dike. 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]]