From south-bay-birds-bounces+south-bay-birds-archive=[[email protected]] Fri Apr 9 08:54:37 2004 Received: from www.plaidworks.com (localhost [127.0.0.1]) by plaidworks.com (8.12.9/8.12.9) with ESMTP id i39FqF0V016565 for <[[email protected]]>; Fri, 9 Apr 2004 08:52:16 -0700 (PDT) Received: from mail07a.vwh1.net (mail07a.vwh1.net [207.201.152.66]) by plaidworks.com (8.12.9/8.12.9) with SMTP id i39FoU2D016489 for <[[email protected]]>; Fri, 9 Apr 2004 08:50:31 -0700 (PDT) Received: from www.hiddenvilla.org (209.238.180.140) by mail07a.vwh1.net (RS ver 1.0.92vs) with SMTP id 1-0693415826 for <[[email protected]]>; Fri, 9 Apr 2004 11:50:27 -0400 (EDT) Message-ID: <000b01c41e4a$3cd63160$[[email protected]]> From: "Garth Harwood" <[[email protected]]> To: "SBB" <[[email protected]]> Date: Fri, 9 Apr 2004 08:49:20 -0700 MIME-Version: 1.0 X-Priority: 3 X-MSMail-Priority: Normal X-Mailer: Microsoft Outlook Express 5.00.2615.200 X-MimeOLE: Produced By Microsoft MimeOLE V5.00.2615.200 X-Loop-Detect: 1 Content-Type: text/plain; charset="iso-8859-1" X-Content-Filtered-By: Mailman/MimeDel 2.1.5b1 Subject: [SBB] Cassin's Vireo etc. - Upper Stevens Creek 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]] Content-Transfer-Encoding: 8bit X-MIME-Autoconverted: from quoted-printable to 8bit by plaidworks.com id i39FqF0V016565 All, I hadn't yet seen a Cassin's Vireo this season, so after work Thursday (4/8/2004) I headed up to one of my favorite CAVI spots, at the intersection of the Saratoga Gap Trail and the Charcoal Road in Upper Stevens Creek County Park, just off Skyline Blvd. I've almost always found one in that vicinity during the breeding season. For 20 minutes or so I was out of luck, but eventually one began singing within a few yards of that junction, tentatively at first, then with gusto a few minutes before 6PM. As usual for that location, there was also a good concentration of Black-throated Gray Warblers, with at least 4 singing close by - one of them with an atypical song which provided me with one of those "Good-Lord-what's-THAT?" moments until I tracked it down. A few Townsend's Warblers are still loitering about as well. Other birds nearby included Hairy Woodpecker, Orange-crowned Warblers, Warbling Vireos, and one Hutton's Vireo. On the drive up to Skyline along Page Mill Rd., hundreds of swallows were flying low over the ridgelines. At several points all the way from Hidden Villa to Monte Bello there were huge termite hatches in progress, with clouds of clumsy bugs flying upwards in loose columns, which might have accounted for the unusual concentration of swallow activity. --Garth Harwood _______________________________________________ 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]]