From south-bay-birds-bounces+south-bay-birds-archive=[[email protected]] Thu Jul 8 08:41:30 2004 Received: from www.plaidworks.com (localhost [127.0.0.1]) by plaidworks.com (8.12.9/8.12.9) with ESMTP id i68FcPsI004777 for <[[email protected]]>; Thu, 8 Jul 2004 08:38:27 -0700 (PDT) Received: from napa.hamilton.com (napa.hamilton.com [192.207.15.8]) by plaidworks.com (8.12.9/8.12.9) with ESMTP id i68FaXQC004732 for <[[email protected]]>; Thu, 8 Jul 2004 08:36:34 -0700 (PDT) Received: from napa.hamilton.com (localhost [127.0.0.1]) by napa.hamilton.com (8.12.10/8.12.10) with ESMTP id i68Faquf022741 for <[[email protected]]>; Thu, 8 Jul 2004 08:36:52 -0700 Received: (from daemon@localhost) by napa.hamilton.com (8.12.10/8.12.5/Submit) id i68FapoJ022740 for [[email protected]]; Thu, 8 Jul 2004 08:36:52 -0700 Received: from nrtspc.hamilton.com (nrtspc.hamilton.com [192.207.15.4]) (authenticated bits=0) by napa.hamilton.com (8.12.10/8.12.10) with ESMTP id i68Fafui022730; Thu, 8 Jul 2004 08:36:42 -0700 Message-Id: <[[email protected]]> X-Sender: [[email protected]] X-Mailer: QUALCOMM Windows Eudora Version 5.2.1 Date: Thu, 08 Jul 2004 08:36:35 -0700 To: [[email protected]] Subject: Re: [SBB] 7/5 Burrowing Owls In-Reply-To: <[[email protected]]> Mime-Version: 1.0 Content-Type: text/plain; charset="us-ascii"; format=flowed From: Nancy Teater <[[email protected]]> Cc: [[email protected]] 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]] Thanks to Dotty, my husband and I saw the two youngsters this morning about 7:45. What a treat! In addition, a Loggerhead Shrike was perched on a bench, the gang of White Pelicans was in its usual spot, and we saw numerous Black-crowned Night-herons flying to their daytime roosts. A gaggle of jackrabbits were also playing in the short grass. Nancy ---------------------- At 09:22 PM 7/5/2004 -0400, [[email protected]] wrote: >Today (Monday) at Bixbee park in Palo Alto, I saw two young BURROWING OWLS, >one standing, the other lying down, then standing, near their nest/burrow, >just >eight feet off the trail/path. This is the second year in a row I have seen >BURROWING OWLS successfuly rear young right next to this trail, where >everyone bikes and walks their dogs, rather than on the hillside which is >closed to >dogs and bikes during breeding season. Both young stared at me and my >dog as >we walked past, then again a half hour later as we returned. To locate them, >park near the restrooms at Bixbee, then walk completely around the hillside >(with the many decorative telephone poles) that is closed to bikes and >dogs. >(Or, hike over the hillside.) Once you pass the hillside and continue on the >trail, there is a chain link fence on your right. Continue on the trail >until >you see two diagonal poles on the chain link fence that form an upside down >"V". Look at the ground to the left, 6'-8' off the trail, a bit past the >upside down "V", and you should see a BURROWING OWL nest. >Dotty Calabrese >_______________________________________________ >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/nrt%40hamilton.com > >This email sent to [[email protected]] -- Nancy R. Teater, Hamilton Communications [[email protected]] phone 650.321.0252 fax 650.491.3878 _______________________________________________ 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]]