From south-bay-birds-bounces+south-bay-birds-archive=[[email protected]] Tue Jun 8 22:54:35 2004 Received: from www.plaidworks.com (localhost [127.0.0.1]) by plaidworks.com (8.12.9/8.12.9) with ESMTP id i595qgit001615 for <[[email protected]]>; Tue, 8 Jun 2004 22:52:42 -0700 (PDT) Received: from la.znet.com (la.znet.com [207.167.96.1]) by plaidworks.com (8.12.9/8.12.9) with ESMTP id i595pgcu001570 for <[[email protected]]>; Tue, 8 Jun 2004 22:51:43 -0700 (PDT) Received: from [69.19.247.83] (host-69-19-247-83.rev.o1.com [69.19.247.83]) by la.znet.com (8.12.6/8.12.6/le1-la) with ESMTP id i595pcfS001238 for <[[email protected]]>; Tue, 8 Jun 2004 22:51:39 -0700 (PDT) X-Envelope-From: [[email protected]] X-Envelope-To: <[[email protected]]> Message-Id: Mime-Version: 1.0 Content-Type: text/plain; charset="us-ascii" Date: Tue, 8 Jun 2004 22:52:40 -0700 To: [[email protected]] From: Dean Manley <[[email protected]]> Subject: [SBB] Ed Leven Park Birds 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, Today, 6/8 late morning, I hiked up to the sycamore tree wash above Sandy Wool Lake to see what I could find. Aside from a very active male and female LESSER GOLDFINCH no other birds were heard or seen in the trees at the wash. Continuing out of the wash up the first rise I paused, midway, finding a WESTERN KINGBIRD. I lost him but in a couple of minutes I heard him calling and found him perched on the barb wire fence about 25 feet down the hill side from the trail. This begging fledgling was immediately joined by a parent that fed him an insect. I only had a good looks looking down at the perched birds rear/top sides as they were facing away from me. Both birds had black tails. The fledgling showed a prominent white border down each side of the tail. The adult showed no white borders on the tail and I assume those white outer feathers were covered. Neither had any indication of white or color across the tip of the tail. There was no rusty coloration in any visable area of the tails or on the wings. There were no white or whitish wing bars on either bird. When I could get a somewhat sideview, such as when they would turn their heads, I could get the whitish malar mark in low contrast to the below light gray, unlike the darker gray of a Cassin's. Since I think this apparent breeding species is likely uncommon this side of the mountains and there are confusion species I'm trying to provide the best difinitive i.d. info I have. Continuing up the trail I shortly saw a RUFOUS-CROWNED SPARROW. I hiked up the service road up to the midlevel hang glider launch site and had great views of the valley. I found a total of 6 YELLOW-BILLED MAGPIES in the vicinity. I thought Yellow-billed Magpies were south county birds but that is close by. On the way back down the service road I turned around a saw a GOLDEN EAGLE come into view and had good looks for a couple of minutes until an AMERICAN KESTREL took offense at the intrusion and started a harassment campaign. 4 Yellow-billed Magpies moved through the lower hang glider launch site area. There is a RED-TAILED HAWK nest with at least 2 well along nestlings in a eucalyptus tree next to the hang glider landing zone. As you drive around the access road heading toward the doggie park and the back (of Sandy Wool) parking lot, the nest is in the last euc tree on the left (toward the hills) adjacent to the landing zone. A gorgeous BULLOCH'S ORIOLE foraged and feed 2 offspring in the euc tree next to the Red-tailed nest. Dean Manley _______________________________________________ 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]]