From south-bay-birds-bounces+south-bay-birds-archive=[[email protected]] Fri Dec 17 14:25:21 2004 Received: from www.plaidworks.com (localhost [127.0.0.1]) by plaidworks.com (8.12.9/8.12.9) with ESMTP id iBHMMSlG005427 for <[[email protected]]>; Fri, 17 Dec 2004 14:22:29 -0800 (PST) Received: from pony2pub.arc.nasa.gov (pony2pub.arc.nasa.gov [128.102.31.42]) by plaidworks.com (8.12.9/8.12.9) with ESMTP id iBHMKsYK005366 for <[[email protected]]>; Fri, 17 Dec 2004 14:21:22 -0800 (PST) Received: from [129.99.140.17] (HELO mail.arc.nasa.gov) by pony2pub.arc.nasa.gov (CommuniGate Pro SMTP 4.2.6) with ESMTP id 15789786 for [[email protected]]; Fri, 17 Dec 2004 14:20:50 -0800 Message-ID: <[[email protected]]> Date: Fri, 17 Dec 2004 14:20:38 -0800 From: Mike Rogers <[[email protected]]> User-Agent: Mozilla/5.0 (Macintosh; U; PPC Mac OS X Mach-O; en-US; rv:1.4) Gecko/20030624 Netscape/7.1 X-Accept-Language: en-us, en MIME-Version: 1.0 To: birders <[[email protected]]> Content-Type: text/plain; charset=us-ascii; format=flowed Content-Transfer-Encoding: 7bit Subject: [SBB] WFGO, YEWA 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, I had to give some Christmas Bird Count materials to Mike Mammoser, so we met at Byxbee Park, hoping to enjoy the Greater White-fronted Geese during the transfer. Unfortunately there was no sign of the 6 WFGO reported here lately, despite a fairly large group of CANADA GEESE present. A single MERLIN flew by the parking area as we were leaving. We next headed over to Geng Road to check for the 5 birds reported on the Palo Alto Golf Course. Sure enough these 5 GREATER WHITE-FRONTED GEESE (1 adult, 4 apparent immatures, although one was beginning to acquire black barring below) were still around, initially swimming on the pond (no sign of any Hooded Mergansers though). While photographing the geese I heard a rich warbler chip and chasing this call down turned up a drab YELLOW WARBLER in the small willow at the pond's near edge. Although drab overall, there were tiny sections of three red streaks coming in near the top of the breast, suggesting the bird was likely a hatching-year male. A SPOTTED SANDPIPER was foraging along the muddy edge of nearby San Francisquito Creek. All-in-all some good count week birds for the Palo Alto count! Mike Rogers _______________________________________________ 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]]