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From: Les Chibana <[[email protected]]>
Subject: Re: [SBB] Report of Little Blue Heron
Date: Tue, 29 Jun 2004 15:44:02 -0700
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I got more detail on the location of this sighting of 6/21/04. 
Interestingly, it was in
pond A4, about halfway along the Guadalupe Slough edge of the pond. I 
see that
Bob Reiling noted that A4 is where Pat and Roland had their sighting 
last year.

My friend said that it wasn't very approachable; it flew before she 
could get closer
than 25 or 30 meters. Her sighting was in dim early morning light, but 
she could
tell that it was about the size of a Snowy Egret, lacked significant 
markings, and
looked dark, not a medium to light gray that a Great Blue Heron might 
appear. It
flew east northeast.

She has been along the same route in the same timeframe on 6/23, 6/25 
and 6/27
but hasn't seen it again.

Les


On Jun 28, 2004, at 1:01 PM, Les Chibana wrote:

> A friend of mine who is a sharp-eyed artist with a great interest in 
> birds, although
> not necessarily a birder of SBB ilk, reported that she saw a small 
> heron that looked
> like an adult Little Blue Heron while she was running the levees in 
> the area of the
> Sunnyvale Water Treatment Plant a few days ago. She described a small 
> egret/
> heron between the size of a small Snowy Egret and a Great Blue Heron 
> that was
> very dark blue. She was in the area beyond the radar bldg. early in 
> the morning.
>
> I have been out of town for the first 3 weeks of June and didn't see 
> any Little Blue
> Heron reports in the sialia.com archives, so I thought I'd put the 
> word out.
>
> I'm sorry that I didn't gather more specific location information and 
> more bird
> description. I'll see if she has more to say on this.
>
> Les Chibana

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