From south-bay-birds-bounces+south-bay-birds-archive=[[email protected]] Sun Jan 11 17:53:45 2004 Received: from www.plaidworks.com (localhost [127.0.0.1]) by plaidworks.com (8.12.9/8.12.9) with ESMTP id i0C1pU2n001595 for <[[email protected]]>; Sun, 11 Jan 2004 17:51:30 -0800 (PST) Received: from nospam2.slac.stanford.edu (nospam2.slac.stanford.edu [134.79.18.86]) by plaidworks.com (8.12.9/8.12.9) with ESMTP id i0C1no1l001545 for <[[email protected]]>; Sun, 11 Jan 2004 17:49:50 -0800 (PST) Received: from smtpserv2.slac.stanford.edu (smtpserv2.slac.stanford.edu [134.79.19.101]) by nospam2.slac.stanford.edu (8.12.10/8.12.10) with ESMTP id i0C1nm6j023748 for <[[email protected]]>; Sun, 11 Jan 2004 17:49:49 -0800 (PST) (envelope-from [[email protected]]) Received: from flora01.slac.stanford.edu ([134.79.16.29]) by smtpserv2.slac.stanford.edu (PMDF V6.1-1 #37665) with ESMTP id <[[email protected]]> for [[email protected]]; Sun, 11 Jan 2004 17:49:48 -0800 (PST) Received: from localhost (eisner@localhost) by flora01.slac.stanford.edu (8.12.10+Sun/8.12.5/Submit-solaris) with ESMTP id i0C1nmJm009790 for <[[email protected]]>; Sun, 11 Jan 2004 17:49:48 -0800 (PST) Date: Sun, 11 Jan 2004 17:49:48 -0800 (PST) From: Al Eisner <[[email protected]]> To: [[email protected]] Message-id: <[[email protected]]> MIME-version: 1.0 Content-type: TEXT/PLAIN; charset=US-ASCII Content-transfer-encoding: 7BIT X-Authentication-warning: flora01.slac.stanford.edu: eisner owned process doing -bs Subject: [SBB] Sunday birds 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]] Today (Jan. 11) I checked a number of spots from Palo Alto to San Jose. I made a late start, beginning by looking for the Western Tanager near the intersections of Palo Alto Ave. with Middlefield Road. I didn't see or hear any Tanager, but a MERLIN perched for a several minutes atop a tall conifer at the intersection on the south (west?) side of Middlefield. I was slightly surprised to find several STELLER'S JAYs here -- is this a usual location for them? At the Charleston Road marsh (Mountainview), I heard rapidly repeated calls from what may have been the Waterthrush, but I couldn't locate it visually, and the calls soon stopped. (I'm not really confident with this call.) Fartther west, behind #1250 (one building south of 1330), I eventually found the WHITE-THROATED SPARROW in a small sparrow flock. Both AMERICAN and LESSER GOLDFINCHes were quite evident in this area. I next tried Shoreline Lake, but even in late morning a blanket of fog made for limited viewing. Just after noon I paid a repeat visit to Overfelt Gardens in San Jose. I spent some time with a large flock (dominated by BUSHTITs and a smaller number of DARK-EYED JUNCOs) which had a variety of other species loosely with it, including 3 TOWNSEND'S WARBLERs and a HUTTON'S ViREO. But, again, I didn't find any Orange-crowned Warbler or the Nashville. Next time I'll have to go with Ann or Mike R. to figure this one out! One surprise here: a male COMMON MERGANSER on the main pond. Finally, after a late lunch, I visited the New Chicago Marsh/EEC area. Most of the shorebirds were on the west side of the RR tracks, which usually meant viewing into the sun. I didn't manage to spot any Ruff; I did see here one LESSER YELLOWLEGS along with about three GREATER YELLOWLEGS. There were dozens of HERRING GULLs in the marsh east of the tracks; I managed to find a convincing adult THAYER'S GULL among them. At the EEC, the BARN OWL was in its box. Good birding. Al Eisner _______________________________________________ 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]]