From south-bay-birds-bounces+south-bay-birds-archive=[[email protected]] Mon Sep 15 11:06:41 2003 Received: from www.plaidworks.com (localhost [127.0.0.1]) by plaidworks.com (8.12.9/8.12.9) with ESMTP id h8FI3EIC016913 for <[[email protected]]>; Mon, 15 Sep 2003 11:03:14 -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 h8FI1lZP016852 for <[[email protected]]>; Mon, 15 Sep 2003 11:01:51 -0700 (PDT) Received: (from mrogers@localhost) by rtjones.nas.nasa.gov (SGI-8.9.3p2/8.9.3/NAS 8.9.3-5n) id LAA77829 for [[email protected]]; Mon, 15 Sep 2003 11:01:46 -0700 (PDT) Date: Mon, 15 Sep 2003 11:01:46 -0700 (PDT) From: "Dr. Michael M. Rogers" <[[email protected]]> Message-Id: <[[email protected]]> To: [[email protected]] Subject: [SBB] sparrows return 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, On Saturday 9/13/03, I made a few quick stops at a couple bayside locations. The Palo Alto Baylands fennel patch and nearby ranger station were pretty quiet, with a single YELLOW WARBLER, 2+ COMMON YELLOWTHROATS, and a flycatcher that was possibly a pewee but only glimpsed briefly. At least 4 fledgling SNOWY EGRETS, still with natal down, were in the palms at the duck pond. I scoped the bay for unusual terns but had to be content with 5 CLAPPER RAILS in the marsh instead. Shoreline Lake had 6 SURF SCOTERS (2 adult males, 4 females), an adult GLAUCOUS-WINGED GULL, and a YELLOW WARBLER in the nearby trees. Again I could find no unusual terns among the many Forster's here or on the nearby salt ponds. With the dowitcher flock in Adobe Creek was a single juvenile PECTORAL SANDPIPER. Among the 145+ CINNAMON TEAL were two eclipse male AMERICAN WIGEON, likely the two that oversummered in the flood control basin since I could find no others of this species here. This morning 9/15/03, on the way into work, I birded the east side of Stevens Creek from south of L'Avenida to the lone eucalyptus, part of the time joined by Al Eisner and Bill Bousman. Sparrows are back! My totals were 7 WHITE-CROWNED SPARROWS, 1 GOLDEN-CROWNED SPARROW, 1 FOX SPARROW, and 1 LINCOLN'S SPARROW. Otherwise things were fairly quiet, with the exception of 11 YELLOW WARBLERS (mostly near the lone euc). Other birds of note included 1 WILLOW FLYCATCHER (Bill and Al had a different one before I met them), 1 ORANGE-CROWNED WARBLER, 1 HOUSE WREN, 1 unidentified EMPIDONAX FLYCATCHER with an eyering, and two young GREEN HERONS. 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]]