From south-bay-birds-bounces+south-bay-birds-archive=[[email protected]] Sun Aug 29 19:06:09 2004 Received: from www.plaidworks.com (localhost [127.0.0.1]) by plaidworks.com (8.12.9/8.12.9) with ESMTP id i7U249GT021638 for <[[email protected]]>; Sun, 29 Aug 2004 19:04:10 -0700 (PDT) Received: from smtp6.mindspring.com (smtp6.mindspring.com [207.69.200.110]) by plaidworks.com (8.12.9/8.12.9) with ESMTP id i7U22jDB021592 for <[[email protected]]>; Sun, 29 Aug 2004 19:02:45 -0700 (PDT) Received: from h-68-164-91-97.snvacaid.dynamic.covad.net ([68.164.91.97] helo=ix.netcom.com) by smtp6.mindspring.com with esmtp (Exim 3.33 #1) id 1C1bVM-0005ys-00 for [[email protected]]; Sun, 29 Aug 2004 22:02:44 -0400 Message-ID: <[[email protected]]> Date: Sun, 29 Aug 2004 19:02:45 -0700 From: delphinus <[[email protected]]> User-Agent: Mozilla/5.0 (Windows; U; Windows NT 5.1; en-US; rv:1.4) Gecko/20030624 Netscape/7.1 (ax) X-Accept-Language: en-us, en MIME-Version: 1.0 To: [[email protected]] Subject: [Fwd: [SBB] R1/R2 west of the Dumbarton Bridge] Content-Type: text/plain; charset=us-ascii; format=flowed Content-Transfer-Encoding: 7bit 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]] Hi! I would like to add that the Chilean Flamingo appears to be a different one than the one I saw last month on Salt Pond A14. The one a A14 was banded above the knee. This one on R1 did not appear to have a band. Summer Brasuel This morning Jan Hintermeister, Summer Brasuel and I visited salt ponds R1 and R2 to do a Snowy Plover Survey for SFBBO. The water was super high, even lapping over the frontage road a bit, and our normal parking place was also under water so we parked along a dry spot on the road. I wondered where the ponds were regulated by controlled pumps vs. tidal (today is full moon, so I'd expect higher water if it's tidal), or maybe some combination of pumps & tidal?? If anyone knows, I'm all ears. In R1 we saw a FLAMINGO (it looked like the Chilean Flamingo in the Sibley Guide as it had an all-dark bill). On OSPREY flew over and perched on a power tower. A few BROWN PELICANS were also flying over R1. On the little island in the northwest corner of R1 we saw 2 adult and 1 juvenile BLACK SKIMMER. My local favorite!!!! As for the smaller birds, there were loads of LESSER SANDPIPERS with some WESTERN SANDPIPERS here and there, loads of RED-NECKED PHALAROPES floating in the water as well as on the little island, lots of WILLETS, a dozen or so SNOWY EGRETS, LONG-BILLED CURLEW, AMERICAN AVOCET, and BLACK-NECKED STILTS. Close flying swallows came swooping by: BARN, VIOLET-GREEN, and CLIFF. We had a great look at the bright yellow markings of a perched SAVANNAH SPARROW. Fly-by's included a GREAT BLUE HERON, a GREAT EGRET, and a NORTHERN HARRIER. And what about the plovers? In the eastern side of R2 we saw a couple of SEMI-PALMATED PLOVERS, and after a couple of hours of searching we were thinking we'd be skunked for our survey. But then Summer noticed a SNOWY PLOVER on the levy out by the island and careful scanning produced half a dozen total, most on the island. There were also lots of BLACK-BELLIED PLOVERS on the island, and out by the frontage road there was a KILLDEER. It was a beautiful day at the bay. Karen DeMello (Mountain View) _______________________________________________ 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/delphinus%40ix.netcom.com This email sent to [[email protected]] _______________________________________________ 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]]