From south-bay-birds-bounces+south-bay-birds-archive=[[email protected]] Sun Jun 27 12:17:20 2004 Received: from www.plaidworks.com (localhost [127.0.0.1]) by plaidworks.com (8.12.9/8.12.9) with ESMTP id i5RJEhsE002935 for <[[email protected]]>; Sun, 27 Jun 2004 12:14:43 -0700 (PDT) Received: from granger.mail.mindspring.net (granger.mail.mindspring.net [207.69.200.148]) by plaidworks.com (8.12.9/8.12.9) with ESMTP id i5RJDAQC002884 for <[[email protected]]>; Sun, 27 Jun 2004 12:13:11 -0700 (PDT) Received: from h-68-164-81-152.snvacaid.dynamic.covad.net ([68.164.81.152] helo=ix.netcom.com) by granger.mail.mindspring.net with esmtp (Exim 3.33 #1) id 1Bef5c-0007MT-00; Sun, 27 Jun 2004 15:13:20 -0400 Message-ID: <[[email protected]]> Date: Sun, 27 Jun 2004 12:13:20 -0700 From: delphinus <[[email protected]]> User-Agent: Mozilla/5.0 (Windows; U; Windows NT 5.1; en-US; rv:1.4) Gecko/20030624 Netscape/7.1 (ax) X-Accept-Language: en-us, en MIME-Version: 1.0 To: Karen DeMello <[[email protected]]> Subject: Re: [SBB] Salt Pond Snowy Plovers References: <[[email protected]]> In-Reply-To: <[[email protected]]> Content-Type: text/plain; charset=ISO-8859-1; format=flowed Content-Transfer-Encoding: 7bit Cc: [[email protected]] 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 Karen, Is there a map of the east bay salt ponds and also is it possible to go out to these ponds to see the plovers? Summer Brasuel Karen DeMello wrote: > This morning Jan Hintermeister and I surveyed salt pond R2 near the > Dumbarton Bridge as part of SFBBO's Snowy Plover monitoring program. > We counted 35 SNOWY PLOVERS: 34 adults and 1 chick. > > Other interesting birds: > Two BLACK SKIMMERS were being nagged by AMERICAN AVOCETS on a little > island in the northwest corner of R1, with a LONG-BILLED CURLEW > nearby. 3 AMERICAN WHITE PELICANS floated on the bay while BARN > SWALLOWS and CLIFF SWALLOWS flew overhead. We didn't see any > Semi-Palmated Plovers today, and only a single KILLDEER was present. > > On an island in R1 near the entrance closest to the Dumbarton we saw a > pile of eggs and also some loose eggs. I'm not sure if the eggs > belonged to the American Avocets or the Black-necked Stilts. We > didn't see any birds sitting on eggs. > > Karen DeMello > Mountain View > > _______________________________________________ > 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/delphinus%40ix.netcom.com > > > This email sent to [[email protected]] > _______________________________________________ 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]]