From south-bay-birds-bounces+south-bay-birds-archive=[[email protected]] Wed Jan 21 20:32:16 2004 Received: from www.plaidworks.com (localhost [127.0.0.1]) by plaidworks.com (8.12.9/8.12.9) with ESMTP id i0M4UBXX001889 for <[[email protected]]>; Wed, 21 Jan 2004 20:30:12 -0800 (PST) Received: from web11404.mail.yahoo.com (web11404.mail.yahoo.com [216.136.131.234]) by plaidworks.com (8.12.9/8.12.9) with SMTP id i0M4TGtg001852 for <[[email protected]]>; Wed, 21 Jan 2004 20:29:17 -0800 (PST) Message-ID: <[[email protected]]> Received: from [69.3.144.55] by web11404.mail.yahoo.com via HTTP; Wed, 21 Jan 2004 20:29:16 PST Date: Wed, 21 Jan 2004 20:29:16 -0800 (PST) From: Jack Cole <[[email protected]]> To: [[email protected]] MIME-Version: 1.0 Content-Type: text/plain; charset=us-ascii X-Content-Filtered-By: Mailman/MimeDel 2.1.2+ Subject: [SBB] Panoche 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]] Ed Frost, Linda Sullivan and I spent a beautiful Wednesday in Panoche Valley. It was my 18th consecutive year for this trip, and perhaps one of the best. Here are the highlights. At Paicines Reservoir: an adult bald eagle, 7 tundra swans (9 on the way home), 7 greater white-fronted geese, 3 snow geese, 1 Ross's goose. At the rock cut just before the valley, rufous-crowned sparrows. A mile north of the Panoche Inn, the first of two prairie falcons. Just past the inn, the first of three golden eagles. (A 9-raptor day) At the bend in Recalde Road, a sage sparrow (right where we saw 2 two years ago) and 3-4 mountain bluebirds. Also along Recalde Road, vesper sparrows. Along Panoche Road near the beautifully restored once-abandoned house, a ferruginous hawk. In the vicinity, we had a tantalizing but brief look at a female lark bunting. About a half-mile before Mercy Hot Springs on Little Panoche Road, a Cassin's kingbird. About one mile west of the Little Panoche Dam, a 40 mph look at what was most probably a sage thrasher, sitting on the fence line next to some crowned sparrows. By the time I could stop and back up, the bird was gone. Finally, on the way back over Shotgun Pass, near the bottom, we had 11 chuckers. Other birds of interest included 2 merlins, one barn owl, 2 phainopepla, and western bluebirds at the fire station. For the day, we logged 82 species. Larry at the Panoche Inn was his usual gracious self (we stopped there three times) and Larry at Mercy Hot Springs was out of town. OK, so we missed roadrunner and mountain plover. Nobody's perfect. Jack Cole --------------------------------- Do you Yahoo!? Yahoo! SiteBuilder - Free web site building tool. Try it! _______________________________________________ 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]]