From south-bay-birds-bounces+south-bay-birds-archive=[[email protected]] Sat Jan 3 15:23:43 2004 Received: from www.plaidworks.com (localhost [127.0.0.1]) by plaidworks.com (8.12.9/8.12.9) with ESMTP id i03NM32l019945 for <[[email protected]]>; Sat, 3 Jan 2004 15:22:03 -0800 (PST) Received: from imo-d06.mx.aol.com (imo-d06.mx.aol.com [205.188.157.38]) by plaidworks.com (8.12.9/8.12.9) with ESMTP id i03NKl1l019901 for <[[email protected]]>; Sat, 3 Jan 2004 15:20:47 -0800 (PST) Received: from [[email protected]] by imo-d06.mx.aol.com (mail_out_v36_r4.8.) id t.8d.9bb7c1 (4340) for <[[email protected]]>; Sat, 3 Jan 2004 18:20:41 -0500 (EST) From: [[email protected]] Message-ID: <[[email protected]]> Date: Sat, 3 Jan 2004 18:20:41 EST To: [[email protected]] MIME-Version: 1.0 X-Mailer: 9.0 for Windows sub 5100 Content-Type: text/plain; charset="US-ASCII" Content-Transfer-Encoding: 7bit X-Content-Filtered-By: Mailman/MimeDel 2.1.2+ Subject: [SBB] Birding 1/3/04 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]] Good afternoon Sbbers..... I started out on this cold morning at Calero Res looking for the Eagles....no luck there. Did manage to find one Tri-colored Blackbird amongst the Red-winged (even took a picture) But I was surprised by the number of Common Goldeneyes and Common Mergansers. Two white Pelicans are still there. Had a pair of Kestrels kiting as well as a Northern Harrier and a pair of White-tailed Kites, Red-tailed Hawks and a pair of Red-shouldered Hawks. Lots of Wild Turkeys. Also present were two Black-necked Stilts. >From Calero I stopped at Lake Almaden and counted 12 Black-crowned Night Herons. Here too I found 18 Common Mergansers and 8 Common Goldeneyes. >From Lake Almaden onto Almaden Water Company....again Common Mergansers and Goldeneyes. Great Blue Heron, Great and Snowy Egret....and a single Green Heron.... >From Lake Almaden to Vasona where I was looking for the Western Bluebird and found a beautiful male. >From Lake Almaden to La Rinconada for my thrasher I marked off by mistake the other day. For a little park this place was jumping with birds. I had 6 Hermit Thrushes, a Red-breasted Sapsucker, Sharp-shinned Hawk, Red-tailed Hawk, Spotted and Cal Towhees, and my California Thrasher! Lots of Anna's doing displays.....Nuttall's and Downy Woodpeckers...Red-shafted Flickers and Ruby-crowned Kinglets. I was watching a Belted Kingfisher and it must have fallen asleep in the tree as I have never been able to get so close to one...I was standing under the Belted Kingfisher when it decided to finally fly.... The house at the end of La Rinconada has dotted the hillside with nesting boxes for Woodpeckers and Flickers...along with boxes for other species...this spring should be just wonderful to see what nests in these boxes. Other species...White and Gold-crowned Sparrows, Bushtits, Chickadees, Oak Titmouse, Starlings, Robins, Scrub Jays, Stellar's Jays, Bewick's Wrens, Mourning Doves and Cedar Waxwings. Wishing you good birding and my best regards, Linda Sullivan _______________________________________________ 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]]