From south-bay-birds-bounces+south-bay-birds-archive=[[email protected]] Sun Jan 11 08:43:03 2004 Received: from www.plaidworks.com (localhost [127.0.0.1]) by plaidworks.com (8.12.9/8.12.9) with ESMTP id i0BGfS2u021337 for <[[email protected]]>; Sun, 11 Jan 2004 08:41:29 -0800 (PST) Received: from grouse.mail.pas.earthlink.net (grouse.mail.pas.earthlink.net [207.217.120.116]) by plaidworks.com (8.12.9/8.12.9) with ESMTP id i0BGeX1l021271 for <[[email protected]]>; Sun, 11 Jan 2004 08:40:33 -0800 (PST) Received: from user-2ivfnur.dialup.mindspring.com ([165.247.223.219] helo=earthlink.net) by grouse.mail.pas.earthlink.net with esmtp (Exim 3.33 #1) id 1Afidb-00031i-00 for [[email protected]]; Sun, 11 Jan 2004 08:40:32 -0800 Message-ID: <[[email protected]]> Date: Sun, 11 Jan 2004 08:39:45 -0800 From: Matthew Dodder <[[email protected]]> X-Mailer: Mozilla 4.61 (Macintosh; I; PPC) X-Accept-Language: en MIME-Version: 1.0 To: SBB <[[email protected]]> Content-Type: text/plain; charset=us-ascii; x-mac-type="54455854"; x-mac-creator="4D4F5353" Content-Transfer-Encoding: 7bit Subject: [SBB] SWPCP 01-10-04 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]] All, I led my Palo Alto Adult School Birdging class around Sunnyvale Water Pollution Control Plant yesterday for a great morning of birding. The weather was perfect and watefowl were in abundance. Highlights of the trip include a male EURASIAN WIGEON in the huge group of Shovelers and American Wigeons. No Redheads were located but the flock of Canvasbacks was pretty far away and it's possible we just missed them. We were lucky to find a SORA as it swam across the channel beneath the upper trail and a GREEN HERON near the flow-in from the processing facility. A nice surprise was a FOX SPARROW feeding in the reed near the dam which seemed like an odd place for the species. In this area there were numerous Gulls, including a large number of BONAPARTE'S. Common Moorhen were absolutely everywhere there was water. A single LOGGERHEAD SHRIKE was observed toward the end of our walk and a MERLIN alighted on the power tower right near the parking area. We got a few grainy digital shots of the Falcon which I'll post on my site soon. The full list is below. That's all for now, Matthew Dodder http://www.birdguy.net Pied-billed Grebe Eared Grebe American White Pelican Double-crested Cormorant Great Blue Heron Great Egret Snowy Egret Green Heron Black-crowned Night Heron Canada Goose Green-winged Teal Mallard Northern Pintail Cinnamon Teal Gadwall Eurasian Wigeon American Wigeon Canvasback Lesser Scaup Ruddy Duck Turkey Vulture White-tailed Kite Northern Harrier Red-tailed Hawk Merlin Ring-necked Pheasant Sora Common Moorhen American Coot Killdeer (heard only) Black-necked Stilt American Avocet Dowitcher (species) Bonaparte's Gull Ring-billed Gull Herring Gull Thayer's Gull Western Gull Glaucous-winged Gull Rock Pigeon Mourning Dove Anna's Hummingbird Belted Kingfisher Black Phoebe Says's Phoebe Barn Swallow Western Scrub-Jay American Crow Common Raven Marsh Wren Northern Mockingbird Loggerhead Shrike European Starling Yellow-rumped Warbler Common Yellowthroat California Towhee Savannah Sparrow Fox Sparrow Song Sparrow Golden-crowned Sparrow White-crowned Sparrow Red-winged Blackbird Western Meadowlark Brewer's Blackbird Brown-headed Cowbird (hear only) House Finch House Sparrow -end _______________________________________________ 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]]