From south-bay-birds-bounces+south-bay-birds-archive=[[email protected]] Sat Jul 17 18:22:56 2004 Received: from www.plaidworks.com (localhost [127.0.0.1]) by plaidworks.com (8.12.9/8.12.9) with ESMTP id i6I1LGOR026700 for <[[email protected]]>; Sat, 17 Jul 2004 18:21:17 -0700 (PDT) Received: from rtjones.nas.nasa.gov (rtjones.nas.nasa.gov [129.99.142.32]) by plaidworks.com (8.12.9/8.12.9) with ESMTP id i6I1JfMR026654 for <[[email protected]]>; Sat, 17 Jul 2004 18:19:41 -0700 (PDT) Received: from rtjones.nas.nasa.gov (localhost [127.0.0.1]) by rtjones.nas.nasa.gov (SGI-8.12.5/8.12.5/NAS-6n) with ESMTP id i6I1JUju007517 for <[[email protected]]>; Sat, 17 Jul 2004 18:19:30 -0700 (PDT) Received: (from mrogers@localhost) by rtjones.nas.nasa.gov (SGI-8.12.5/8.12.5/Submit) id i6I1JTSJ007499 for [[email protected]]; Sat, 17 Jul 2004 18:19:29 -0700 (PDT) Date: Sat, 17 Jul 2004 18:19:29 -0700 (PDT) From: "Dr. Michael M. Rogers" <[[email protected]]> Message-Id: <[[email protected]]> To: [[email protected]] Subject: [SBB] SWPCP-ELTE, BLTE, and WC Pintail 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]] All, I headed out to make a quick bike tour of the Sunnyvale Baylands late this afternoon 7/17/04, hoping to refind Mike Mammoser's Black Tern. After a little bit of searching, I did find the alternate-plumaged adult BLACK TERN foraging over the west pond at 4:20pm. I continued up to Guadalupe Slough to look at the small algae mat in the northeast corner of the west pond. It held LEAST and WESTERN SANDPIPERS, but a bigger surprise was Matthew Dodder's WHITE-CHEEKED PINTAIL (reported 7/5/04), a really cool looking bird. It flapped once and did not appear clipped or flightless. It foraged on submerged vegetation the entire time and did not climb out of the water, preventing me from checking its feet for bands. There were lots of Great and Snowy Egrets (and a few Great Blue Herons) visible in the reeds along the northern edge of Guadalupe Slough, but from this distance I could not confirm any breeding. Biking back along the northern edge of the east pond did not provide any views into the slough, but while heading east here I heard the call of an Elegant Tern. Stopping and madly scanning the sky, I located one juvenile ELEGANT TERN following a single adult towards me. The two birds flew by and continued on their way west; I eventually lost sight of them in the northwest corner of the west pond, but they may have continued on into pond A3W. I completed my loop of the east pond (finding 2 NORTHERN PINTAIL and 4 CINNAMON TEAL in the big duck flock in the northeast corner) and then biked around pond A4. Many more egrets were in the reeds of the sloughs here, and quite a few were along the western edge of A4, but I saw no sign of breeding or of the Little Blue Heron. Mike Rogers _______________________________________________ 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]]