From south-bay-birds-bounces+south-bay-birds-archive=[[email protected]] Fri Apr 9 14:17:38 2004 Received: from www.plaidworks.com (localhost [127.0.0.1]) by plaidworks.com (8.12.9/8.12.9) with ESMTP id i39LF60U024235 for <[[email protected]]>; Fri, 9 Apr 2004 14:15:06 -0700 (PDT) Received: from turkey.mail.pas.earthlink.net (turkey.mail.pas.earthlink.net [207.217.120.126]) by plaidworks.com (8.12.9/8.12.9) with ESMTP id i39LDd2D024170 for <[[email protected]]>; Fri, 9 Apr 2004 14:13:39 -0700 (PDT) Received: from user-vcaulkb.dsl.mindspring.com ([216.175.86.139] helo=pavilion.earthlink.net) by turkey.mail.pas.earthlink.net with esmtp (Exim 3.33 #1) id 1BC3Jh-0005vo-00 for [[email protected]]; Fri, 09 Apr 2004 14:13:37 -0700 Message-Id: <[[email protected]]> X-Mailer: QUALCOMM Windows Eudora Version 5.2.1 Date: Fri, 09 Apr 2004 14:14:04 -0700 To: [[email protected]] From: Bill Bousman <[[email protected]]> Mime-Version: 1.0 Content-Type: text/plain; charset="us-ascii"; format=flowed Subject: [SBB] Am. Dipper, Allen's Hummingbird X-BeenThere: [[email protected]] X-Mailman-Version: 2.1.5b1 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]] Folks: This morning, 4/9/2004, I took a walk along Penitencia Creek in Alum Rock Park and then returned via the North Rim Trail. Lots of summer residents are back, as reported by others. I had good looks at two AM. DIPPERS in the creek. Along the North Rim Trail, I looked for hummingbirds, but came up with only a single cooperative male ALLEN'S. A courting pair of COOPER'S HAWKS escorted me for about 15 minutes and it was wonderful to see them in close flight with their white crissal feathers fluffed out. The female was in immature plumage and the male was in adult plumage. Coming home I stopped at the sludge ponds to look for the Black-headed Gull without success. Probably about 60 gulls here, about 40 roosting and 20 foraging. All left about 1300 hr. On Wednesday I did some trampling through the hemlock on the creek side of the levee pursuing a junco-like trill that came from the hemlock, not from the trees along the creek. It was particularly aggravating as it would call about once every half hour, but no more. It was calling again about noon today and I realized that the song was similar to the trill given by Swamp Sparrows. I again trampled the hemlock, but I had the same problem. It only sings infrequently and doesn't seem to respond to pishing (as do the Song Sparrows, Common Yellowthroats, and single Lincoln and Fox sparrows). Bill Bousman Santa Clara County records compiler _______________________________________________ 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]]