From south-bay-birds-bounces+south-bay-birds-archive=[[email protected]] Wed Mar 17 09:48:24 2004 Received: from www.plaidworks.com (localhost [127.0.0.1]) by plaidworks.com (8.12.9/8.12.9) with ESMTP id i2HHiPAp016958 for <[[email protected]]>; Wed, 17 Mar 2004 09:44:25 -0800 (PST) Received: from smtp3.Stanford.EDU (smtp3.stanford.edu [171.67.16.117]) by plaidworks.com (8.12.9/8.12.9) with ESMTP id i2HHhFpJ016909 for <[[email protected]]>; Wed, 17 Mar 2004 09:43:15 -0800 (PST) Received: from cottage-desktop.stanford.edu (DNab42a5b1.Stanford.EDU [171.66.165.177]) by smtp3.Stanford.EDU (8.12.11/8.12.11) with ESMTP id i2HHh9nA009212 for <[[email protected]]>; Wed, 17 Mar 2004 09:43:14 -0800 Message-Id: <[[email protected]]> X-Sender: [[email protected]] (Unverified) X-Mailer: QUALCOMM Windows Eudora Version 4.3.1 Date: Wed, 17 Mar 2004 09:43:07 -0800 To: [[email protected]] From: Patty Ciesla <[[email protected]]> Mime-Version: 1.0 Content-Type: text/plain; charset="us-ascii"; format=flowed Subject: [SBB] warblers, quail, songs on CD, and bird baths 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]] I've had orange-crowned and Townsend's warblers in the oak for the last three days. This is so cool having branches down at eye-level! I can see the invisible birds now! Surely the orange-crowned warbler is the most perfectly camouflaged bird. The male, singing in the branches, is exactly the same color, and nearly the same size as the new live oak leaf clusters. This is a new yard bird for me. I'm getting a lot of mileage out of the 3-CD set "Bird Songs of California" by Keller. After my last report I got a suggestion to re-evaluate my ID of my neighborhood wrens as "house wrens". Well, the sounds they make match the Brewer's wren songs on the CD, but not the house wrens. It's neat to be able to do an auditory ID when the visual characteristics are ambiguous for me. Also, quail have come. Yesterday there were 7! I've put out a couple bird baths. One of the male juncos is totally into bathing. Every afternoon he bathes 3 or 4 times, spending several minutes in the water, fluttering and dunking his head, but also sometimes just standing there looking perfectly relaxed, soaking his feet and bottom. The bigger bath is a glazed saucer for a large patio planting pot. It seems too shallow for the towhees and jays, and my guess is the junco would enjoy full submersion if he could get it. Anyone have advice for me on the best depth, set-up, sources etc? Also, does anyone provide a dust or sand bath? When do red-shouldered hawks breed/nest? The calling in the fir across the draw is different this week. Patty ps. random non-bird observation: In California, new grass grows in November and oaks shed their old leaves in March. All the worn-out leaves from last year that were clinging to the twigs in the live oak are now on my deck. More leaves fell this week than during the earlier storms we had. The oak looks so fresh and clean, with glossy new leaves budding out. Oh, and its starting to get decorated by the pretty rainbow strings from the worms. _______________________________________________ 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]]