From south-bay-birds-bounces+south-bay-birds-archive=[[email protected]] Fri Sep 26 10:13:01 2003 Received: from www.plaidworks.com (localhost [127.0.0.1]) by plaidworks.com (8.12.9/8.12.9) with ESMTP id h8QHAjID005611 for <[[email protected]]>; Fri, 26 Sep 2003 10:10:46 -0700 (PDT) Received: from prattle.redback.com (prattle.redback.com [155.53.12.9]) by plaidworks.com (8.12.9/8.12.9) with ESMTP id h8QH96ZP005507 for <[[email protected]]>; Fri, 26 Sep 2003 10:09:06 -0700 (PDT) Received: from redback.com (dhcp-41-173.redback.com [155.53.41.173]) by prattle.redback.com (Postfix) with ESMTP id 370B543184 for <[[email protected]]>; Fri, 26 Sep 2003 10:09:05 -0700 (PDT) Message-ID: <[[email protected]]> Date: Fri, 26 Sep 2003 10:13:21 -0700 From: Eric Goodill <[[email protected]]> Organization: Redback Networks User-Agent: Mozilla/5.0 (Windows; U; Windows NT 5.0; en-US; rv:0.9.4) Gecko/20011128 Netscape6/6.2.1 X-Accept-Language: en-us MIME-Version: 1.0 To: SBB <[[email protected]]> Content-Type: text/plain; charset=us-ascii; format=flowed Content-Transfer-Encoding: 7bit Subject: [SBB] Crayfish for dinner along Steven's Creek 9/25/03 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]] Greetings All, I walked along Stevens Creek from Crittendon to La Avenida Thursday evening and enjoyed watching the following. I had heard the rattling call of a BELTED KINGFISHER but hadn't caught sight of it yet. While looking at something else, I saw the BEKI perched in a tree about ten feet above the creek. While moving for a better view, he (no rufous on the breast) was temporarily blocked from view by another tree. At this point, I heard a loud splash as something entered the water. Next I see the BEKI rising with something in its bill. It flew to a power tower, and once in the binox, I see it has a large crayfish which is flailing its legs and pinchers about. The BEKI subdues the critter by repeatedly whacking it on the rail it is perched upon until it stops moving. It then flies off out of site where, I presume, dinner was served. Earlier I had some across a large number of crayfish carcasses along the bank of the creek and had wondered what was eating them. Now I know at least one answer though I think some of the other birds in this list would be candidates too. Here's the complete list of what I saw: Ring-Necked Pheasant Northern Shovler (body pretty much into alternate plumage but head still basic) Mallard Green-Winged Teal (mostly molting to alternate but one bird pretty much there) Snowy Egret Black-Crowned Nightheron (both juv. and adult) Chestnut-Backed Chickadee Nuttall's Woodpecker Red-Tailed Hawk Mourning Dove House Finch Lesser Goldfinch Golden-Crowned Sparrow White-Crowned Sparrow Great Egret Western Scrub-Jay Belted Kingfisher Bushtit Cooper's Hawk Black Phoebe Pacific-Sloped Flycatcher House Sparrow Anna's Hummingbird Turkey Vulture Good birding, Eric _______________________________________________ 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]]