From south-bay-birds-bounces+south-bay-birds-archive=[[email protected]] Sun Dec 5 20:40:43 2004 Received: from www.plaidworks.com (localhost [127.0.0.1]) by plaidworks.com (8.12.9/8.12.9) with ESMTP id iB64c4lH019879 for <[[email protected]]>; Sun, 5 Dec 2004 20:38:04 -0800 (PST) Received: from imo-d20.mx.aol.com (imo-d20.mx.aol.com [205.188.139.136]) by plaidworks.com (8.12.9/8.12.9) with ESMTP id iB64bGYK019838 for <[[email protected]]>; Sun, 5 Dec 2004 20:37:16 -0800 (PST) Received: from [[email protected]] by imo-d20.mx.aol.com (mail_out_v37_r3.8.) id t.ce.5d2d38e7 (16930) for <[[email protected]]>; Sun, 5 Dec 2004 23:37:13 -0500 (EST) From: [[email protected]] Message-ID: <[[email protected]]> Date: Sun, 5 Dec 2004 23:37:13 EST To: [[email protected]] MIME-Version: 1.0 Content-Type: text/plain; charset="UTF-8" Content-Language: en X-Mailer: 9.0 for Windows sub 5034 Content-Transfer-Encoding: 8bit X-MIME-Autoconverted: from quoted-printable to 8bit by plaidworks.com id iB64bGYK019838 Subject: [SBB] Saturday's Water Treatment Facility Trip 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: Saturday’s trip to the Sunnyvale Water Treatment Facility went moderately successfully. The cold, early start resulted in a small but dedicated group ... (fortunately, since the group was then able to make it through the hole in the fence that Cargill Salt has put up, making an acrobatic access to the dyke between A3W and the West Pond. On our return along the south side of the West Pond we encountered a Wildlife Patrol Car asking us if we’d seen any hunters. I think that the razor-wire fence with the smooth hole in it is meant to restrict the destructive hunters but not birdwatchers. At least, that’s my official position.) >From the land-fill mountain to the west of the parking lot we had excellent views of the many ducks in the West Pond and the Lockheed Marsh (and even a cursory check of the distant A-ponds, looking for Tundra Swans.) There was a Sharp-shinned Hawk deep in the dead tree just below the hill, a cooperative Peregrine Falcon on a power tower, a White-tailed Kite in a tree, a few Red-tailed Hawks and Northern Harriers, and a (disputed) young Red-shouldered Hawk. Just after we descended the hill, we were treated to a Ross’s Goose circling overhead and landing just at the top of that hill. A little later it seemed to fly west into the Lockheed Marsh. (This is the same behavior the bird exhibited the day before.) All told, I think we saw at least 6 male Eurasian Widgeons. At one instant I had two males in the Questar, next to me Pat Kenny had a different one in her scope, and Rich Page was looking in a different direction at yet another. We also had some swallows fly overhead, and then 4 of them landed out on poles in the West Pond, providing confirming looks at these Tree Swallows. We saw 5 grebe species and 6 of gulls. All told, I recorded 73 species. Frank Vanslager _______________________________________________ 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]]