From south-bay-birds-bounces+south-bay-birds-archive=[[email protected]] Sat Jul 31 15:39:22 2004 Received: from www.plaidworks.com (localhost [127.0.0.1]) by plaidworks.com (8.12.9/8.12.9) with ESMTP id i6VMb3OR002405 for <[[email protected]]>; Sat, 31 Jul 2004 15:37:03 -0700 (PDT) Received: from sccrmhc12.comcast.net (sccrmhc12.comcast.net [204.127.202.56]) by plaidworks.com (8.12.9/8.12.9) with ESMTP id i6VMa2MR002360 for <[[email protected]]>; Sat, 31 Jul 2004 15:36:03 -0700 (PDT) Received: from 204.127.205.144 ([204.127.205.144]) by comcast.net (sccrmhc12) with SMTP id <2004073122360201200fk6gae>; Sat, 31 Jul 2004 22:36:02 +0000 Received: from [67.169.121.5] by 204.127.205.144; Sat, 31 Jul 2004 22:36:02 +0000 From: [[email protected]] To: [[email protected]] Date: Sat, 31 Jul 2004 22:36:02 +0000 Message-Id: <[[email protected]]> X-Mailer: AT&T Message Center Version 1 (Jun 24 2004) X-Authenticated-Sender: bS5tLnJvZ2Vyc0Bjb21jYXN0Lm5ldA== MIME-Version: 1.0 Content-Type: text/plain Content-Transfer-Encoding: 8bit X-Content-Filtered-By: Mailman/MimeDel 2.1.5b1 Subject: [SBB] White-cheeked Pintail, shorebirds 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 wanted to get some pictures of the White-cheeked Pintail, so I headed out to the west pond of the Sunnyvale Water Pollution Control Plant just after 11:00am this morning 7/31/04. On the way out, I joined up with Pat Kenny, Roland Kenner, and his niece, who were also looking for the pintail. The wires near the radar tower had 165 VIOLET-GREEN SWALLOWS perched on them and a juvenile PEREGRINE FALCON (female?) was hunting in the same area. The WHITE-CHEEKED PINTAIL was foraging in the northeast corner of the west pond. Unfortunately, it swam away from the dike as we approached, making for somewhat distant pictures. After a while, it flew with some other ducks further out on the pond (I managed to get some distant flight shots). The algae mat is almost completely gone and there were few shorebirds around (4+ SEMIPALMATED PLOVERS being of most interest). Four recently hatched COMMON MOORHEN chicks were in the reeds. To finish off my roll of film I headed to Alviso, where the BAIRD'S SANDPIPER was foraging in its usual spot north of the entrance road. I got pictures of this bird (before it flushed way back into the marsh as a noisy airplane went over) and the male RUFF, which was just a bit further up the road. A single LESSER YELLOWLEGS was also here. Hearing that Mike Mammoser had found Semipalmated Sandpipers from the boardwalk trail near the visitor center, I headed out there and enjoyed great looks at a juvenile SEMIPALMATED SANDPIPER right off the boardwalk! A juvenile BAIRD'S SANDPIPER was roosting in the pond here as well, likely the same bird seen earlier, as there was still no Baird's back at the favored channel location when I drove out. 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]]