From south-bay-birds-bounces+south-bay-birds-archive=[[email protected]] Sat Jan 3 17:29:49 2004 Received: from www.plaidworks.com (localhost [127.0.0.1]) by plaidworks.com (8.12.9/8.12.9) with ESMTP id i041SB2u022243 for <[[email protected]]>; Sat, 3 Jan 2004 17:28:11 -0800 (PST) Received: from smtp810.mail.sc5.yahoo.com (smtp810.mail.sc5.yahoo.com [66.163.170.80]) by plaidworks.com (8.12.9/8.12.9) with SMTP id i041Qd1l022170 for <[[email protected]]>; Sat, 3 Jan 2004 17:26:41 -0800 (PST) Received: from unknown (HELO sbcglobal.net) (hdmcdevitt%[[email protected]] with plain) by smtp810.mail.sc5.yahoo.com with SMTP; 4 Jan 2004 01:26:38 -0000 Message-ID: <[[email protected]]> Date: Sat, 03 Jan 2004 17:24:20 -0800 From: Hugh McDevitt <[[email protected]]> X-Mailer: Mozilla 4.73 [en] (Win98; U) X-Accept-Language: en MIME-Version: 1.0 To: sbb <[[email protected]]> Content-Type: text/plain; charset=us-ascii Content-Transfer-Encoding: 7bit Subject: [SBB] Alamitos Creek Trail--Almaden Valley X-BeenThere: [[email protected]] X-Mailman-Version: 2.1.2+ 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]] Debbie and I walked the Alamitos Creek trail from McKean and Harry to Almaden Lake Park and back this afternoon, partly to work off holiday calories and partly to bird. It was a glorious afternoon with lots of people out joining us. Bird highlights included: a White-Breasted Nuthatch in the oaks north of the bike/trail bridge opposite the LDS church on Camden, a nicely perched Northern Flicker, Common Mergansers--both on the creek and at Almaden Lake. We didn't see any Hooded Mergansers at the lake, but on our return trip down the valley, we stopped again north of the trail bridge, where we had seen a pair of female Common Mergs on the trip north, and were treated to a beautiful male/female pair of Hooded Mergs. (Deb has sharp eyes or we might have missed them.) The male was very cooperative and displayed his white head feathers in a number of configurations from hardly visible to almost completely spread out. On the walk north, we also observed a pair of Red-tailed Hawks engaged in what I guess is courtship behavior, extending their talons and attempting to grasp each other in flight. A very exciting afternoon! On a non-SBB related topic....has anyone seen the new Nicole Kidman/Jude Law movie "Cold Mountain." The story is set in Virginia/North Carolina at the end of the Civil War, but most of the filming was done in Romania. I think that I briefly spotted a Hooded Crow in one of the exterior shots. Anyone else catch that? Hugh McDevitt _______________________________________________ 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]]