From south-bay-birds-bounces+south-bay-birds-archive=[[email protected]] Sat Jun 5 22:13:24 2004 Received: from www.plaidworks.com (localhost [127.0.0.1]) by plaidworks.com (8.12.9/8.12.9) with ESMTP id i565C2im026912 for <[[email protected]]>; Sat, 5 Jun 2004 22:12:02 -0700 (PDT) Received: from mtaw4.prodigy.net (mtaw4.prodigy.net [64.164.98.52]) by plaidworks.com (8.12.9/8.12.9) with ESMTP id i565ANcu026864 for <[[email protected]]>; Sat, 5 Jun 2004 22:10:24 -0700 (PDT) Received: from KrisDesktop (adsl-64-169-18-243.dsl.snfc21.pacbell.net [64.169.18.243]) by mtaw4.prodigy.net (8.12.10/8.12.10) with ESMTP id i565AMfY014670 for <[[email protected]]>; Sat, 5 Jun 2004 22:10:22 -0700 (PDT) From: "Kris Olson" <[[email protected]]> To: "'South Bay Birders'" <[[email protected]]> Date: Sat, 5 Jun 2004 22:10:20 -0700 Message-ID: <039501c44b84$906f8350$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 Content-Transfer-Encoding: 8bit X-MIME-Autoconverted: from quoted-printable to 8bit by plaidworks.com id i565ANcu026864 Subject: [SBB] Hidden Villa for Summer Bird Count 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]] Hi all, I birded Hidden Villa today with 3 other intrepid birders, including one who joined us from Santa Fe NM. Jon Batkin joined his sister Leonie Batkin and Marianne Schonfisch, who is a docent at Hidden Villa and knows the trails and history well. We met at 6:30am and finished about 2:30pm. Garth Harwood prepared a detailed map for us showing where to go and what birds to look for. Highlights: -------------- WESTERN TANAGER nest (big maple by white house). We saw 1 adult male-- flew into a likely nest; and, surprisingly, a non-breeding male near the nest-- just a touch of orange around its face. So we did not see a female. Garth, is this what you are seeing? WARBLING VIREOS - 3 singing in various places CASSIN'S VIREO - 1 singing (heard only near Gibraltar Rock) PACIFIC SLOPE FLYCATCHERS -- 8 or so, all calling BLACK-HEADED GROSBEAKS - found 1 female carrying nest material; male nearby BLUE GRAY GNATCATCHER-- 1 COOPER'S HAWK near a likely nest (Short Bunny trail)--first heard only, then later saw it flying nearby Saw 2 or so Cooper's. ASH-THROATED FLYCATCHER - heard by one of us on the way in Breeding evidence, otherwise: ------------------------------------ -- pair of HAIRY WOODPECKERS (heard only); 1 other heard later --Immature AMERICAN ROBIN and parent --Begging CHESTNUT-BACKED CHICKADEE (many pairs of huge flocks of Chicakdees) --COMMON RAVENS -- saw 1 carrying food in the AM and PM, so it may have been 2 birds; flying back over the hostel area with something big and yellow in their/its bill(s). --Immature DARK EYED JUNCOS -- Pair of WESTERN BLUEBIRDS -- PURPLE FINCH female singing (?!) and an immature -- 1 pair NUTTAL'S WOODPECKERS, 4 others not in pairs We missed the Hutton's Vireos and the Black-gray Warbler (see June 2) as well as Winter Wrens and California Thrasher. We did climb almost all the way up to Black Mountain and heard no Mountain Quail. We heard only 1 California Quail all day. We did see lots of white wash in the creek coming down Short Bunny trail, before the lunch rock. And we even found some in Adobe Creek on the way back from Black Mt. Any chance, Garth, that there could be a Dipper? The water did not look deep enough, but... the white wash looked too big for Winter Wren. Robins? Reptiles: Western Skink -- juvenile with an amazing bright blue tail! Whiptails and Western Fence Lizard. Menlo Park, 9pm tonight June 5: juvenile BARN OWL calling incessantly for adult, 303 Laurel near Pope-- tonight, so it can count for today. Not sure whose region. 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/south-bay-birds-archive%40plaidworks.com This email sent to [[email protected]]