From south-bay-birds-bounces+south-bay-birds-archive=[[email protected]] Sun Jun 20 16:06:05 2004 Received: from www.plaidworks.com (localhost [127.0.0.1]) by plaidworks.com (8.12.9/8.12.9) with ESMTP id i5KN4EsF005833 for <[[email protected]]>; Sun, 20 Jun 2004 16:04:14 -0700 (PDT) Received: from imo-m25.mx.aol.com (imo-m25.mx.aol.com [64.12.137.6]) by plaidworks.com (8.12.9/8.12.9) with ESMTP id i5KN2gQC005792 for <[[email protected]]>; Sun, 20 Jun 2004 16:02:43 -0700 (PDT) Received: from [[email protected]] by imo-m25.mx.aol.com (mail_out_v37_r2.6.) id t.4f.3fc543ad (25098) for <[[email protected]]>; Sun, 20 Jun 2004 19:03:05 -0400 (EDT) From: [[email protected]] Message-ID: <[[email protected]]> Date: Sun, 20 Jun 2004 19:03:05 EDT To: [[email protected]] MIME-Version: 1.0 X-Mailer: 9.0 for Windows sub 5031 Content-Type: text/plain; charset="UTF-8" X-Content-Filtered-By: Mailman/MimeDel 2.1.5b1 Subject: [SBB] The Alamitos Creek and Lake Almaden Trip 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]] Content-Transfer-Encoding: 8bit X-MIME-Autoconverted: from quoted-printable to 8bit by plaidworks.com id i5KN4EsF005833 All: The Alamitos Creek and Lake Almaden trip today, Sunday, consisted of a small, dedicated group of excellent bird-finders and led to a surprising number of memorable sightings: We started by seeing a Red-shouldered Hawk pounce on prey, and take it temporarily to a perch on a pole, where it proved to be a Fence? Lizard. This was followed almost immediately by the sight of an Opossum doing a not-quite-perfect “playing possum” on the bike path. (We lifted it off the trail into the shade of a bush.) Later we saw 2 spotted young deer, bouncing comically after their mother. We saw at least 3 Scaly-breasted Munia (Nutmeg Mannikin), including 2 of them working on a nest only 6-8 feet above our heads. We also saw a young Oriole sitting half-out of a hanging nest, at the same time that there was a male Hooded perched next to a male Bullock’s, with no sign of friction. We also had a half-dozen close, but obscured, views of an adult Cooper’s Hawk working low trees, a back fence, and even a front porch, without worrying about the entranced, scrambling birders. At the lake we had 2 Caspian Terns with their large, dark-red bills, contrasting to the surrounding Forster’s Terns on the island, and two very large, downy young moving around on the rocks next to a female Common Merganser. On my list I put down 60 species, when I included 4 from the day before. Frank Vanslager _______________________________________________ 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]]