From south-bay-birds-bounces+south-bay-birds-archive=[[email protected]] Tue Jun 29 20:23:45 2004 Received: from www.plaidworks.com (localhost [127.0.0.1]) by plaidworks.com (8.12.9/8.12.9) with ESMTP id i5U3LTsG018383 for <[[email protected]]>; Tue, 29 Jun 2004 20:21:29 -0700 (PDT) Received: from rwcrmhc12.comcast.net (rwcrmhc12.comcast.net [216.148.227.85]) by plaidworks.com (8.12.9/8.12.9) with ESMTP id i5U3JvQC018331 for <[[email protected]]>; Tue, 29 Jun 2004 20:19:57 -0700 (PDT) Received: from 204.127.197.117 ([204.127.197.117]) by comcast.net (rwcrmhc12) with SMTP id <2004063003202101400ierb9e>; Wed, 30 Jun 2004 03:20:21 +0000 Received: from [24.6.248.198] by 204.127.197.117; Wed, 30 Jun 2004 03:20:20 +0000 From: [[email protected]] To: [[email protected]] (SBB Chat Group) Date: Wed, 30 Jun 2004 03:20:20 +0000 Message-Id: <[[email protected]]> X-Mailer: AT&T Message Center Version 1 (Jun 24 2004) X-Authenticated-Sender: YmlyZGVybW9tQGNvbWNhc3QubmV0 MIME-Version: 1.0 Content-Type: text/plain Content-Transfer-Encoding: 8bit X-Content-Filtered-By: Mailman/MimeDel 2.1.5b1 Subject: [SBB] Birds and New Digs in Gilroy!!! 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! My husband and I closed Friday on a new house in Gilroy. It is located behind Chictac-tac Adams County Park (which is on Watsonville Road near Burchell Rd.). It is 16 acres, about 8 of it riparian habitat, the rest a house and a vineyard. The land is bordered on one side by Uvas Creek (year round), and on another side by Little Arthur Creek (seasonal - dried up in mid-June), which merges into Uvas Creek on our property. Two creekside trails existed when we purchased the property and I have cleared a third trail on Little Arthur Creek. The property is part of an former indian village for the Chictac-tac Indians (an Ohlone Indian tribe). I will be working with the County Real Estate Office, the county archeologist and a Landscape Architect who specializes in native gardens to re-habitat some of the creek areas and re-landscape around the house in all-native plants. My first two days on the property netted the following: BROWN CREEPER, SWAINSON'S THRUSH, BEWICK'S WREN, CHESTNUT-BACKED CHICKADEE, RED-SHOULDERED HAWK, GREAT HORNED OWL (pellets only), AMERICAN ROBIN, BLACK PHOEBE, VIOLET-GREEN SWALLOW (nesting on house), LESSER GOLDFINCH, HOUSE FINCH, WESTERN SCRUBJAY, CA QUAIL, HAIRY WOODPECKER, NUTTALL'S WOODPECKER, PACIFIC-SLOPE FLYCATCHER, TURKEY VULTURE AND OAK TITMOUSE and other unidentified bird calls. I would love to have help birding our property, especially since many of the birds are best identified by sound which is my weakest area. I'd also love some help identifying some of the plant species, both native and non-native (so they can be replaced by natives). If you're interested in visiting, please call a few days ahead so we can arrange a visit. It takes between 1-2 hours to bird the area. It is best to call, since I'm not getting onto e-mail much while we plan for a partial remodel, interior design and landscaping over the next coulple of months. My phone number is 408-737-1004. Look forward to seeing you!! Jean Myers _______________________________________________ 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]]