From south-bay-birds-bounces+south-bay-birds-archive=[[email protected]] Tue Jun 29 14:31:01 2004 Received: from www.plaidworks.com (localhost [127.0.0.1]) by plaidworks.com (8.12.9/8.12.9) with ESMTP id i5TLRLsH013141 for <[[email protected]]>; Tue, 29 Jun 2004 14:27:21 -0700 (PDT) Received: from imo-m21.mx.aol.com (imo-m21.mx.aol.com [64.12.137.2]) by plaidworks.com (8.12.9/8.12.9) with ESMTP id i5TLP4QC013049 for <[[email protected]]>; Tue, 29 Jun 2004 14:25:06 -0700 (PDT) Received: from [[email protected]] by imo-m21.mx.aol.com (mail_out_v37_r2.6.) id t.1d8.253dc011 (2612) for <[[email protected]]>; Tue, 29 Jun 2004 17:25:14 -0400 (EDT) From: [[email protected]] Message-ID: <[[email protected]]> Date: Tue, 29 Jun 2004 17:25:14 EDT To: [[email protected]] MIME-Version: 1.0 X-Mailer: 9.0 for Windows sub 5113 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, Prompted by Les Chibana's recent e-mail and the fact that it was almost exactly one year ago that Pat Kenny and Roland Kenner found a Little Blue Heron in Salt Pond A-4, Frank Vanslager and I decided to check out the Sunnyvale Water Treatment Ponds and Salt Pond A-4. A quick survey of the ponds from the hill south of the ponds didn't look promising but we decided to walk the eastern edge of East Pond in any case. Nothing special on the way out, a GREEN HERON near the pump station at the bottom of the hill and a couple COMMON MOORHEN (one adult, one juvenile) and two BROWN PELICANS (a county year bird for both of us) flew east along the northern edge of the pond. We then ran into Pat and Roland who had just finished checking out Salt Pond A4 (no joy there either). Curiosity then caused us to check out the northeastern corner of the West Pond. There we had an adult and a juvenile KILLDEER (a nice look at the juvenile), two Common Moorhen and a small flock of LEAST SANDPIPERS (being harassed by the adult Killdeer). The four of us then decided to recheck Salt Pond A4. On the way we had a COOPERS HAWK (carrying food) make a pass over the Water Treatment Facility landing in the trees nearby, a nice juvenile PEREGRINE FALCON perched on pole over the marsh between the Water Treatment Ponds and Salt Pond A4 and male NORTHERN HARRIER which temporarily harassed the Falcon. As we later scanned the northern reaches of Salt Pond A4 Frank spotted two unidentifiable darkly marked shorebirds feeding along the far edge of the pond. These birds clearly seemed to be much smaller than nearby BLACK-NECKED STILTS. Ultimately, after much speculation, we made the long walk only to find two breeding plumaged GREATER YELLOWLEGS. From a distance, shorter legs made the Greater Yellowlegs appear much smaller than the equally lengthy (14 inches) and sized (6 ounce) Black-necked Stilt. 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]]