From south-bay-birds-bounces+south-bay-birds-archive=[[email protected]] Tue Jan 13 17:14:53 2004 Received: from www.plaidworks.com (localhost [127.0.0.1]) by plaidworks.com (8.12.9/8.12.9) with ESMTP id i0E1D62m026361 for <[[email protected]]>; Tue, 13 Jan 2004 17:13:07 -0800 (PST) Received: from imo-m07.mx.aol.com (imo-m07.mx.aol.com [64.12.136.162]) by plaidworks.com (8.12.9/8.12.9) with ESMTP id i0E1CB1l026321 for <[[email protected]]>; Tue, 13 Jan 2004 17:12:11 -0800 (PST) Received: from [[email protected]] by imo-m07.mx.aol.com (mail_out_v36_r4.12.) id t.dd.130463b (3980) for <[[email protected]]>; Tue, 13 Jan 2004 20:12:01 -0500 (EST) From: [[email protected]] Message-ID: <[[email protected]]> Date: Tue, 13 Jan 2004 20:12:01 EST To: [[email protected]] MIME-Version: 1.0 X-Mailer: 9.0 for Windows sub 5007 Content-Type: text/plain; charset="US-ASCII" Content-Transfer-Encoding: 7bit X-Content-Filtered-By: Mailman/MimeDel 2.1.2+ Subject: [SBB] County goodies 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, This morning Frank Vanslager and I first birded the Charleston Rd Marsh and vicinity finding the WHITE-THROATED SPARROW behind 1350 Charleston Rd. Later we saw the NORTHERN WATERTHRUSH in the southeastern portion of the swamp, not far from where the bird was initially found, alongside a volleyball net. A nice adult COOPER'S HAWK was perched in one of the taller trees in the swamp, other notables include WILSON'S SNIPE, HERMIT THRUSH, GREEN HERON, and FOX SPARROW. We then stopped at Harvey Marsh, the dikes of which seem to have been damaged during recent storms. We had a few Gulls here with a dirty headed MEW GULL causing some consternation; best birds were a COMMON MOORHEN [in the creek], a LINCOLN'S SPARROW, a FOX SPARROW, and a persistently calling RED-SHOULDERED HAWK. An adult male NORTHERN HARRIER was spotted cruising over the Sunnyvale Baylands Park water pond. Next stop was the pond on south side of Hwy. 237, east of Lafayette St. where we had a CANVASBACK, BUFFLEHEAD, and RING-NECKED DUCK [but no Spotted Sandpiper ;-(] Our subsequent stop at the Gold St. bridge over Guadalupe Creek , joined by John Hutts, was poorly timed [low tide and lunch time traffic] and we were unsuccessful in locating a Swamp Sparrow [one possible call heard]. A quick stop at New Chicago Marsh produced a large, yellow-green legged RUFF in the pickle weed west of the railroad tracks [i.e. the eastern edge of the pond at State and Spreckles Ave]. It was busy feeding among sleeping Dowitchers, DUNLIN, and a couple MARBLED GODWITS. Our last stop was at the Alviso Marina parking lot where they were quite busy sandbagging the northern edges of the parking lot [I assume in anticipation of this months high tides]. A quick walk out along the eastern edge of Salt Pond A12 produced a third winter GLAUCOUS-WINGED GULL [on the RR tracks], a SAY'S PHOEBE [weeds near the RR tracks], at least seven SANDERLING [in "the impoundment" between the RR tracks and the salt pond], and perhaps a hundred MEW GULLS [in Salt Pond A13]. _______________________________________________ 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]]