From south-bay-birds-bounces+south-bay-birds-archive=[[email protected]] Tue Jun 1 16:03:53 2004 Received: from www.plaidworks.com (localhost [127.0.0.1]) by plaidworks.com (8.12.9/8.12.9) with ESMTP id i51N1nim017692 for <[[email protected]]>; Tue, 1 Jun 2004 16:01:49 -0700 (PDT) Received: from imo-d21.mx.aol.com (imo-d21.mx.aol.com [205.188.144.207]) by plaidworks.com (8.12.9/8.12.9) with ESMTP id i51N01cu017632 for <[[email protected]]>; Tue, 1 Jun 2004 16:00:01 -0700 (PDT) Received: from [[email protected]] by imo-d21.mx.aol.com (mail_out_v37_r2.6.) id t.157.368022c1 (18403) for <[[email protected]]>; Tue, 1 Jun 2004 18:59:59 -0400 (EDT) From: [[email protected]] Message-ID: <[[email protected]]> Date: Tue, 1 Jun 2004 18:59:59 EDT To: [[email protected]] MIME-Version: 1.0 X-Mailer: 9.0 for Windows sub 5110 Content-Type: text/plain; charset="US-ASCII" Content-Transfer-Encoding: 7bit X-Content-Filtered-By: Mailman/MimeDel 2.1.5b1 Subject: [SBB] Vasona - Campbell Ponds 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]] Good afternoon SBBers.... This morning I checked out the Great Blue Heron Colony at Vasona and all is well. Five active nests, with 4 of them getting ready to fledge and one still has about 4-5 weeks left. The best today at the colony was when the adult came in with lunch and the three nestlings went crazy....I could hear one of them calling, "food fight"....and what a fight for the food there was! Great to watch..... The Killdeer was incubating (4 possible 5 eggs) and a beautiful female Common Merganser was swimming and preening all morning in the creek. Western Bluebirds gathering bugs....one female got a big cricket, yuck! Question for you all...what would pull down (under the water) an adult Canada Goose and Goslings? Saw this three times this morning....they were just swimming when an adult was pulled under the water....then it came up and a second one was pulled down....and it came up...but the gosling went down and didn't come back up? This afternoon I took a quick look at the first Campbell Pond and notice that a Snowy Egret is nesting in the tree on the larger of the two islands. It must be incubating as it looked to be turning eggs and then sat back down on the nest. Also present was a Western Grebe......only Forster's Terns were present about 20.... Then I heard Brown-headed Cowbirds...and much to my surprise I counted 12 males and 8 females on the lawn...the males were flashing their wings and had their tails cocked straight up....was this a display?. I was thinking on Sunday when I went to Oka Ponds that sometimes it's not what you see but what you don't see....No Caspain Terns...no nesting Pied-billed Grebes (actually very few PBGRs) very few Coots with only one nesting. Very few Mallards and the ones there have young. I am thinking that the water levels have been either very high or very low and this has messed with nesting....I can see the same thing at Vasona.... Okay, wishing you all good birding and my best regards, Linda Sullivan _______________________________________________ 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]]