From south-bay-birds-bounces+south-bay-birds-archive=[[email protected]] Sun Feb 29 11:16:10 2004 Received: from www.plaidworks.com (localhost [127.0.0.1]) by plaidworks.com (8.12.9/8.12.9) with ESMTP id i1TJDol7015750 for <[[email protected]]>; Sun, 29 Feb 2004 11:13:51 -0800 (PST) Received: from smtp1.Stanford.EDU (smtp1.stanford.edu [171.67.16.120]) by plaidworks.com (8.12.9/8.12.9) with ESMTP id i1TJC3NY015695 for <[[email protected]]>; Sun, 29 Feb 2004 11:12:08 -0800 (PST) Received: from [10.0.1.2] (KSmith-pbdsl2.Stanford.EDU [171.66.208.19]) by smtp1.Stanford.EDU (8.12.10/8.12.10) with ESMTP id i1TJC2Mu005729 for <[[email protected]]>; Sun, 29 Feb 2004 11:12:03 -0800 Mime-Version: 1.0 X-Sender: [[email protected]] Message-Id: Date: Sun, 29 Feb 2004 11:12:02 -0800 To: [[email protected]] From: "Kendric C. Smith" <[[email protected]]> Content-Type: text/plain; charset="us-ascii" ; format="flowed" X-Content-Filtered-By: Mailman/MimeDel 2.1.5a1 Subject: [SBB] S.C. County List 2004 X-BeenThere: [[email protected]] X-Mailman-Version: 2.1.5a1 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]] Bill Bousman writes: JANUARY 1, 2004 Here is the first installment of the 2004 Santa Clara County composite list. These are all the records provided by observers for 1 Jan 2004. The species total of 125 is about as poor as it gets (last year was 157). A heavy rain before noon explains all of this, I expect. We picked up a few 4s on New Year's Day: EURASIAN WIGEON, BLUE-WINGED TEAL, OSPREY, BALD EAGLE and WHITE-THROATED SPARROW. However, we only found one 5, the BLACK SKIMMERS, again at Charleston Slough. Should Black Skimmers still be 5s? I am quite conservative about changing the checklist scores of invasive birds, as there is a tendency after the initial surge for invading birds to decline (seen any Little Blue Herons or Cattle Egrets lately?). The skimmer pattern still appears to be in flux--birds hung out in the Alviso salt ponds this fall instead of moving to Charleston Slough in late September. At the latter location they really didn't show until December Actual breeding numbers may have reached a plateau. The Black Skimmer is an impressive invader, but has it reached the end of its coastal invasion at San Francisco Bay? Or will it keep going? However, Great-tailed Grackles have been around long enough that I think that they are 5s, not 6s. We'll see in future years how they move down on the list. The complete list can be found on: South Bay Birders Unlimited (SBBU) http://www.stanford.edu/~kendric/birds/ -- Kendric C. Smith, Ph.D. 927 Mears Court Stanford, CA 94305-1041 (650) 493-7210 (voice or fax) [[email protected]] http://www.stanford.edu/~kendric/ _______________________________________________ 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]]