From south-bay-birds-bounces+south-bay-birds-archive=[[email protected]] Tue Jun 8 14:11:21 2004 Received: from www.plaidworks.com (localhost [127.0.0.1]) by plaidworks.com (8.12.9/8.12.9) with ESMTP id i58L8iiu023812 for <[[email protected]]>; Tue, 8 Jun 2004 14:08:44 -0700 (PDT) Received: from imo-m23.mx.aol.com (imo-m23.mx.aol.com [64.12.137.4]) by plaidworks.com (8.12.9/8.12.9) with ESMTP id i58L7Lcu023741 for <[[email protected]]>; Tue, 8 Jun 2004 14:07:21 -0700 (PDT) Received: from [[email protected]] by imo-m23.mx.aol.com (mail_out_v37_r2.6.) id t.62.3f4da9e9 (4262) for <[[email protected]]>; Tue, 8 Jun 2004 17:07:15 -0400 (EDT) From: [[email protected]] Message-ID: <[[email protected]]> Date: Tue, 8 Jun 2004 17:07:14 EDT To: [[email protected]] MIME-Version: 1.0 X-Mailer: 9.0 for Windows sub 5111 Content-Type: text/plain; charset="US-ASCII" Content-Transfer-Encoding: 7bit X-Content-Filtered-By: Mailman/MimeDel 2.1.5b1 Subject: [SBB] County birding 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, This morning in Monte Bello OSP Frank Vanslager and I had several CHIPPING SPARROWS on the east side of the White Oak Trail just south of the power lines (thanks to Garth Harwood for his posted notes on this area). We initially heard at least two CHSP singing in the trees right after we crossed under the power lines and started down the hill. Unfortunately, it was very windy at the time and walking on the noisy leaves under the trees made finding the birds impossible. Another couple hundred yards further down the trail, however, we were able to, at various times, flush CHSPs from the grass, trees and bushes getting great, perched views of at least three different birds (at least as many probable CHSP were not clearly identified as they flew into the trees). Earlier we had checked out Loma Prieta, primarily the "upper saddle" and above. Mostly just the "usual suspects" were about but at one point while heading down the trail from the "antenna farm" we had a flock of normally hard to see ORANGE-CROWNED WARBLERS that was highly reminiscent of Bushtit flocks as 12 to 20 OCWA flew from one side of the road to the other working the lower trees, bushes and the road in between. We watched in fascination for some time as the flock slowly moved toward us and at one point at least three BEWICK'S WRENS even joined in the whirling melee. Several gray-headed OCWA were noted with at least one very pale gray (Taiga juvenile?) OCWA in the flock. We, of course, tried to see as many of the warblers as possible in hopes of finding a rarity that might have been attracted to such an unusual flock. No such luck. Take care, Bob Reiling _______________________________________________ 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]]