From south-bay-birds-bounces+south-bay-birds-archive=[[email protected]] Fri Sep 19 17:34:35 2003 Received: from www.plaidworks.com (localhost [127.0.0.1]) by plaidworks.com (8.12.9/8.12.9) with ESMTP id h8K0WCID000341 for <[[email protected]]>; Fri, 19 Sep 2003 17:32:12 -0700 (PDT) Received: from smtp4.Stanford.EDU (smtp4.stanford.edu [171.67.16.29]) by plaidworks.com (8.12.9/8.12.9) with ESMTP id h8K0VEZP000289 for <[[email protected]]>; Fri, 19 Sep 2003 17:31:14 -0700 (PDT) Received: from [10.0.1.2] (KSmith-pbdsl2.Stanford.EDU [171.66.208.19]) by smtp4.Stanford.EDU (8.12.10/8.12.10) with ESMTP id h8K0V7Zp017832 for <[[email protected]]>; Fri, 19 Sep 2003 17:31:09 -0700 (PDT) Mime-Version: 1.0 X-Sender: [[email protected]] Message-Id: Date: Fri, 19 Sep 2003 17:31:03 -0700 To: [[email protected]] From: "Kendric C. Smith" <[[email protected]]> Content-Type: text/plain; charset="us-ascii" ; format="flowed" X-Content-Filtered-By: Mailman/MimeDel 2.1.2+ Subject: [SBB] S.C. Co. List, August 31 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]] Bill Bousman writes: I've been remiss, and failed to put together a composite list for July. So here is the combined update for July and August. We added 11 species to move the composite list from 245 to 257. We picked up five 4's for the two months, mostly shorebirds. This leaves us with only six more 4's to wrap up the year. As expected in most years we find LEAST TERNS in early July so a single bird at Salt Pond A4 on 3 Jul was expected. The shorebird migration came in well with a juvenile SEMIPALMATED SANDPIPER at the CCFS ponds on 26 Jul. An adult BAIRD'S SANDPIPER was found in the Alviso salt ponds on 30 Jul for one of our few records of an adult bird. The first PECTORAL SANDPIPER of the season showed up on 11 Aug in the Sunnyvale WPCP ponds and was also an adult bird. Finally, a STILT SANPIPER was found on 19 Aug in New Chicago Marsh, as has often happened in recent falls. We found four 5's over the two-month period. An adult RUDDY TURNSTONE showed up on Salt Pond A16 on 19 Jul and at least three adults were there over the next few days. An immature BANK SWALLOW, a local dispersant, was at the CCFS waterbird pond on 27 Jul. A BLACK TERN was found on 15 Aug in closed refuge ponds in Alviso and, within days, up to four birds were being seen off and on at the Sunnyvale WPCP ponds. Finally, a SUMMER TANAGER was found in Palo Alto's Foothills Park on 30 Aug at the close of the period. Early fall is a great time for the real rarities, the 6's. An EASTERN KINGBIRD was found along Skyline Boulevard on 27 Jul and was seen in both Santa Clara and San Mateo counties. A HUDSONIAN GODWIT was identified in the New Chicago Marsh on 29 Aug (it had likely been there at least two days prior) and an amazing two birds were found over the next week! These birds are only our third record. Minor clean-up: I changed the first date of the LITTLE BLUE HERON from 26 to 25 Jun. The complete list can be found on: South Bay Birders Unlimited (SBBU) http://www.stanford.edu/~kendric/birds/ -- Kendric C. Smith, Ph.D. 927 Mears Court Stanford, CA 94305-1041 (650) 493-7210 (voice or fax) [[email protected]] http://stanford.edu/~kendric/ _______________________________________________ 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]]