From south-bay-birds-bounces+south-bay-birds-archive=[[email protected]] Mon Jul 5 10:39:19 2004 Received: from www.plaidworks.com (localhost [127.0.0.1]) by plaidworks.com (8.12.9/8.12.9) with ESMTP id i65Hans9006828 for <[[email protected]]>; Mon, 5 Jul 2004 10:36:49 -0700 (PDT) Received: from ylpvm29.prodigy.net (ylpvm29-ext.prodigy.net [207.115.57.60]) by plaidworks.com (8.12.9/8.12.9) with ESMTP id i65HZ9QC006786 for <[[email protected]]>; Mon, 5 Jul 2004 10:35:10 -0700 (PDT) Received: from KrisDesktop (adsl-64-169-18-243.dsl.snfc21.pacbell.net [64.169.18.243]) by ylpvm29.prodigy.net (8.12.10 outbound/8.12.10) with ESMTP id i65HZNCZ010183; Mon, 5 Jul 2004 13:35:23 -0400 From: "Kris Olson" <[[email protected]]> To: "'Kris Olson'" <[[email protected]]>, "'South Bay Birders'" <[[email protected]]> Subject: RE: [SBB] Sunnyvale WPCP Pond A4-- evening OPossum Date: Mon, 5 Jul 2004 10:35:26 -0700 Message-ID: <003701c462b6$75eca730$6401a8c0@KrisDesktop> MIME-Version: 1.0 Content-Type: text/plain; charset="us-ascii" X-Priority: 3 (Normal) X-MSMail-Priority: Normal X-Mailer: Microsoft Outlook, Build 10.0.4510 X-MimeOLE: Produced By Microsoft MimeOLE V6.00.2800.1409 Importance: Normal In-Reply-To: <010101c46188$9843e750$6401a8c0@KrisDesktop> Content-Transfer-Encoding: 8bit X-MIME-Autoconverted: from quoted-printable to 8bit by plaidworks.com id i65HZ9QC006786 Cc: X-BeenThere: [[email protected]] X-Mailman-Version: 2.1.5b1 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]] I forgot to mention that there was a Opossum on the levee-- west side as you start to walk out-- the little internal levee-- as I walked back about 9pm, after the sun had set. This levee does attach to the main levee, so I could see how it got out there. Does it eat eggs? What was it looking for? It walked right by several egrets who did not seem alarmed. According to this short article on them, they eat: Omnivorous: eats insects, snails, rodents, berries, over-ripe fruit, grasses, leaves, and carrion; occasionally will eat snakes, ground eggs, corn or other vegetables. http://www.opossum.org/facts.htm and another article: http://www.bio.umass.edu/biology/conn.river/opossum.html Kris Olson -----Original Message----- From: south-bay-birds-bounces+kristenolson=[[email protected]] [mailto:south-bay-birds-bounces+kristenolson=[[email protected]]] On Behalf Of Kris Olson Sent: Saturday, July 03, 2004 10:35 PM To: 'South Bay Birders' Subject: [SBB] Sunnyvale WPCP Pond A4-- evening Hello all, I walked maybe a third of the way around pond A4 tonight starting at 7:30pm-- a lovely time to be out. No sign of any Little Blue Heron, but many Great Egrets, Snowy Egrets, Black-crowned Night Herons and 2 or 3 Great Blue Herons. Two AMERICAN-WHITE PELICANS hung out in the SW corner where there is an inlet, which also attracted many egrets and 15+ FORESTER'S TERNS. 14 PIED-BILLED GREBES were clustered in the NW corner. A CASPIAN TERN flew over as I left, maybe 8:40pm. Four alternate plumaged GREATER-YELLOWLEGS were present along with 6 BLACK-NECKED STILTS. Numerous CALIFORNIA GULLS kept streaming by, heading west to the West and East ponds. One quite large gull with mottely brown plumage with a long white wing stripe up the center of its wings also flew by. A female NORTHERN HARRIER scouted the rushes. COMMON YELLOWTHROATS and MARSH WRENS sang continually along with 1 SONG SPARROW. There were many CLIFF and BARN SWALLOWS and RED-WINGED BLACKBIRDS in the reeds. The far ponds held RUDDY DUCKS, Mallards and Gadwalls from what I could see. As I was leaving, the SNOWY EGRETS began to roost for the night in the tall reeds and more BLACK-CROWNED NIGHT HERONS flew out. Guess that left the big guys, Great Blue and Great Egret, up the latest. I though it was interesting that I could not see 1 egret or heron in the West and East ponds and there were almost no ducks in A4. Good birding, Kris Olson, Menlo Park CA _______________________________________________ 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/kristenolson %40yahoo.com This email sent to [[email protected]] _______________________________________________ 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]]