From south-bay-birds-bounces+south-bay-birds-archive=[[email protected]] Thu Apr 15 15:43:43 2004 Received: from www.plaidworks.com (localhost [127.0.0.1]) by plaidworks.com (8.12.9/8.12.9) with ESMTP id i3FMfk0V005312 for <[[email protected]]>; Thu, 15 Apr 2004 15:41:46 -0700 (PDT) Received: from imo-d04.mx.aol.com (imo-d04.mx.aol.com [205.188.157.36]) by plaidworks.com (8.12.9/8.12.9) with ESMTP id i3FMev2D005265 for <[[email protected]]>; Thu, 15 Apr 2004 15:40:58 -0700 (PDT) Received: from [[email protected]] by imo-d04.mx.aol.com (mail_out_v37_r1.2.) id t.1ef.1e28a8fc (3890) for <[[email protected]]>; Thu, 15 Apr 2004 18:40:52 -0400 (EDT) From: [[email protected]] Message-ID: <[[email protected]]> Date: Thu, 15 Apr 2004 18:40:52 EDT To: [[email protected]] MIME-Version: 1.0 X-Mailer: 9.0 for Windows sub 5007 Content-Type: text/plain; charset="US-ASCII" Content-Transfer-Encoding: 7bit X-Content-Filtered-By: Mailman/MimeDel 2.1.5b1 Subject: [SBB] County birding 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]] All, This morning Frank Vanslager and did a checkout of Ed Levin County Park in anticipation of Sunday's SCVAS field trip. Unfortunately, many people will most likely to find this trip, intended to highlight some of the harder to find County birds, a bit disappointing. On this mornings trip we were unable to locate any Selasphorus Hummingbirds, we didn't see any Grasshopper Sparrows (although 2 to 3 were heard just beyond the broken green gate) and no Buntings or Grosbeaks. Some of what we did manage to find included at least one RUFOUS-CROWNED SPARROW, a LARK SPARROW, WESTERN KINGBIRD, WHITE-THROATED SWIFT, BARN SWALLOW, TREE SWALLOW, SHARP-SHINNED HAWK and GOLDEN EAGLE. A county year bird for me was a BROWN-HEADED COWBIRD. We then went to the Environmental Education Center where we had two young BARN OWLS in the nest box, many BONAPARTE'S GULLS on the first island in Salt Pond A-16 and small rafts of EARED GREBES behind the island in the water. A well marked breeding plumaged adult male AMERICAN GOLDFINCH was singing near the trail to the salt pond. A quick stop at the pond at State & Spreckles yielded 5-6 SEMIPALMATED PLOVER, a breeding plumaged DUNLIN, lots of breeding plumaged WESTERN SANDPIPER and Dowitchers. Take care, Bob Reiling _______________________________________________ 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]]