From south-bay-birds-bounces+south-bay-birds-archive=[[email protected]] Wed Dec 29 21:47:13 2004 Received: from www.plaidworks.com (localhost [127.0.0.1]) by plaidworks.com (8.12.9/8.12.9) with ESMTP id iBU5j5lE004234 for <[[email protected]]>; Wed, 29 Dec 2004 21:45:06 -0800 (PST) Received: from mail.coastside.net (iris.coastside.net [207.213.212.14]) by plaidworks.com (8.12.9/8.12.9) with ESMTP id iBU5iKYK004190 for <[[email protected]]>; Wed, 29 Dec 2004 21:44:24 -0800 (PST) Message-Id: <[[email protected]]> Received: (qmail 2054 invoked by uid 88); 29 Dec 2004 21:44:18 -0800 Received: from unknown (HELO ?66.81.79.207?) (66.81.79.207) by mail.coastside.net with SMTP; 29 Dec 2004 21:44:18 -0800 X-Mailer: Microsoft Outlook Express for Macintosh - 4.01 (295) Date: Wed, 29 Dec 2004 21:41:04 -0800 From: "Garth Harwood" <[[email protected]]> To: South Bay Birds <[[email protected]]> Subject: [SBB] Black Mtn. today (12/29/04) 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]] > Mime-version: 1.0 X-Priority: 3 Content-type: text/plain; charset="US-ASCII" Content-transfer-encoding: 7bit Taking advantage of a lull in the weather and in holiday festivities, I cruised up to Black Mtn. in Monte Bello OSP today, 12/29/2004. The weather was only semi-cooperative, with intermittent fog and showers in the morning and a raw wind that kept me in my raingear well after the threat of precipitation had faded. The birds evidently felt the chill too. Very few individuals showed themselves, but I was able to locate a few LAWRENCE'S GOLDFINCHES along the upper Indian Creek Trail, between mileposts 0.5 and 0.6. Five in one group were deep in the chaparral at the upper end of that span, near the backpack camp, and these provided in-flight looks several times as they moved from one spot to another - however, once they landed in the chaparral, it was as if they'd never been. Way down the slope at the same location I could see a large goldfinch flock of 100+ individuals. However, without a scope I could only ascertain that (at least) some of this flock were LESSER GOLDFINCHES. The only other noteworthy birds out today were WESTERN BLUEBIRDS, who were present in encouraging numbers. Five were at the sag pond at the beginning of the Canyon Trail, and eight more were at the backpack camp on Black Mtn., some of them visiting a mistletoe clump and evidently eating something there. Happy New Year to all, 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]]