From south-bay-birds-bounces+south-bay-birds-archive=[[email protected]] Sun Mar 7 19:29:02 2004 Received: from www.plaidworks.com (localhost [127.0.0.1]) by plaidworks.com (8.12.9/8.12.9) with ESMTP id i283R1wi020780 for <[[email protected]]>; Sun, 7 Mar 2004 19:27:02 -0800 (PST) Received: from rwcrmhc13.comcast.net (rwcrmhc13.comcast.net [204.127.198.39]) by plaidworks.com (8.12.9/8.12.9) with ESMTP id i283PkkF020738 for <[[email protected]]>; Sun, 7 Mar 2004 19:25:46 -0800 (PST) Received: from 204.127.197.111 ([204.127.197.111]) by comcast.net (rwcrmhc13) with SMTP id <20040308032545015005ee9le>; Mon, 8 Mar 2004 03:25:45 +0000 Received: from [24.6.89.52] by 204.127.197.111; Mon, 08 Mar 2004 03:25:45 +0000 From: [[email protected]] To: [[email protected]] (South-Bay-Birds) Date: Mon, 08 Mar 2004 03:25:45 +0000 Message-Id: <[[email protected]]> X-Mailer: AT&T Message Center Version 1 (Oct 27 2003) X-Authenticated-Sender: anJsaXR0bGU2QGNvbWNhc3QubmV0 Subject: [SBB] New Backyard Bird List Bird 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 SBBers, What a nice day. I left Milpitas at 6:30a for Cliffton Court Forebay for a second try at the Snow Bunting. I had to go to Sacramento yesterday and missed it between 10:45a and noon. Better luck today finding the bird on the outer levee (paved road) on the lake side. I was back in Milpitas by 9am. I eat breakfast, then I headed down to Los Gatos with my dad and Janet and took a walk by Oka ponds and along Los Gatos creek. Notables were a nice Green Heron in the creek bottom under the bridge, a N. Rough-winged Swallow, and a Bushtit nest along side the trail. Approximatly 8 Buffleheads and an equal number of Lesser Scaup, along with 5-6 Ruddy Ducks to go along with Gadwall and Mallards. Returned home at about 1:30p with Togo's sandwiches. My dad left for Modesto at about 3pm. After a quick trip to OSH to get some wood and hardware, I cleaned and repaired our backyard feeders and nest boxes. That finished, I filled them, offering thistle, black oil sunflower, white millet, and safflower seeds, shelled and whole peanuts, and sugar water. Then I got a cold drink, sat down to relax and waited for the evening feeding to begin. What followed was quite an amazing variety for our Milpitas backyard. Anna's Hummingbird came to the sugar water feeder. Both Lesser and American Goldfinch at the thistle feeder. A pair of C-B Chickadees came to the shelled peanut feeder and would occasionally "steal" a sunflower seed and dart off to cover to work at opening it. Soon, a couple of Mourning Dove were eating the spillage of seeds scattered by the mob of House Sparrows. They were soon joined by a California Towhee. The House Finch quickly joined, to pick out the black oil sunflower seeds in the mixture. A Hermit Thrush came out from a pyracantha to look the situation over and quickly returned to cover. A female Bushtit arrived at the bird bath/dripper for an early evening bath. It's bath looked to be cut short by a Mockingbird coming to drink, another singing from the nearby utility pole. A pair of Scrub-Jays were sorting the whole peanuts at the squirrel feeding station, seeming to vocalize the merits of each peanut before selection "just the right one". By now sorting through the seed spillage still underway were about 12-15 W-C Sparrows. Searching through all these darting, coming and going Zonotrichia, I finally found the single regular G-C Sparrow that frequents our feeders. Then at 5:30p, I noticed that one of the sparrows had a bright, sharply defined, white throat! Quick check, gray bill, pale yellow lores, (I'm feeling good now) and tan crown stripes. A tan-striped White-throated Sparrow. A new backyard bird for Janet's NWF Backyard Wildlife Habitat! I called her to the patio, but the bird spooked. My over zealous excitement. I had checked all the marks, as I usually do with the Zonotrichia in the backyard, hoping that one of these day's I would get a W-T Sparrow for the yard list. After an hour and fading light and no further comfirmation sighting, I started to doubt my call. Janet went to the kitchen to start supper and I went out to turn off the water to the dripper and unplug the fountain pump. When I rounded the corner of the house, under some backyard shrubs was the W-T Sparrow. I told Janet it may be back tomorrow. It was a nice day, very nice! ---- Randy Little, Milpitas, CA [[email protected]] "I bird because the voices in my head tell me to." Question: If you don't pay your exorcist, do you get repossessed? _______________________________________________ Do not post admin requests to the list. 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