From south-bay-birds-bounces+south-bay-birds-archive=[[email protected]] Sun Mar 21 13:59:12 2004 Received: from www.plaidworks.com (localhost [127.0.0.1]) by plaidworks.com (8.12.9/8.12.9) with ESMTP id i2LLvlAp008860 for <[[email protected]]>; Sun, 21 Mar 2004 13:57:47 -0800 (PST) Received: from mms3.broadcom.com (mms3.broadcom.com [63.70.210.38]) by plaidworks.com (8.12.9/8.12.9) with ESMTP id i2LLuLpJ008789 for <[[email protected]]>; Sun, 21 Mar 2004 13:56:21 -0800 (PST) Received: from 63.70.210.1 by mms3.broadcom.com with ESMTP (Broadcom SMTP Relay (MMS v5.6.0)); Sun, 21 Mar 2004 13:56:06 -0800 X-Server-Uuid: 8D569F9F-42CF-4602-970D-AACC4BD5D310 Received: from mail-sjcw-3.sw.broadcom.com (mail-sjcw-3.sw.broadcom.com [10.20.128.23]) by mon-irva-11.broadcom.com (8.9.1/8.9.1) with ESMTP id NAA15523 for <[[email protected]]>; Sun, 21 Mar 2004 13:55: 26 -0800 (PST) Received: from mail-sjcw-1.broadcom.com (mail-sjcw-1.sw.broadcom.com [10.20.128.21]) by mail-sjcw-3.sw.broadcom.com (8.12.9/8.12.9/SSM3) with ESMTP id i2LLtvkp009615 for <[[email protected]]>; Sun, 21 Mar 2004 13:55:57 -0800 (PST) Received: from pc2kmikem (dhcpe1-sjcw-254 [10.20.64.254]) by mail-sjcw-1.broadcom.com (8.12.9/8.12.4/SSM) with SMTP id i2LLu1E0015703 for <[[email protected]]>; Sun, 21 Mar 2004 13:56:01 -0800 (PST) From: "Mike Mammoser" <[[email protected]]> To: SBB <[[email protected]]> Date: Sun, 21 Mar 2004 13:54:53 -0800 Message-ID: <[[email protected]]> MIME-Version: 1.0 X-Priority: 3 (Normal) X-MSMail-Priority: Normal X-Mailer: Microsoft Outlook IMO, Build 9.0.2416 (9.0.2910.0) Importance: Normal X-MimeOLE: Produced By Microsoft MimeOLE V6.00.2800.1165 X-WSS-ID: 6C40D0FC2IK427820-01-01 Content-Type: text/plain; charset=iso-8859-1 Content-Transfer-Encoding: 7bit Subject: [SBB] : 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]] On Saturday, 20 Mar 04, I took a short walk in Almaden Quicksilver Park. A pair of COOPER'S HAWKS diving and soaring overhead were both immatures, but obviously engaged in a courtship flight. It can be notoriously difficult to get a good look at singing male ORANGE-CROWNED WARBLERS in spring, but 2 males vying for the same, or overlapping, territories gave me a nice show. They would countersing against each other, sometimes from only a few feet apart in the same tree, and chase each other around. At one point I was able to watch one of them alternately sing and then gobble little green caterpillars from about 15 feet away and about 8 feet up in a blue oak. Once, on this walk, I jeard the "churr" note of a HOUSE WREN, but got nothing more out of it, not even a visual. Later, I went to Almaden Reservoir, where I had a HOUSE WREN singing on the O'Day property and a WARBLING VIREO singing from uphill. On Sunday morning, 21 Mar 04, I joined Mike Rogers for a survey in Alviso and the only real highlight was a SHORT-EARED OWL along outer Alviso Slough. We left this bird along the levee bordering the southwest corner of salt pond A10 on the Alviso Slough Trail. After leaving Mike, I went up to Ed Levin Park, where I ran into Al Eisner in the Elm Picnic Area. We had little hummingbird activity, seeing a couple ANNA'S and hearing the wing "zing" of a selasphorus. There was a handful of BULLOCK'S ORIOLES around, and we found 3 day-roosting BARN OWLS in the pines. I left Al and went over to the Spring Valley area across the road. Here I found a male ALLEN'S HUMMINGBIRD at the flowering eucs. Nesting activity included a female ANNA'S HUMMINGBIRD sitting on a nest about 30 feet up in a eucalyptus, and the GREAT HORNED OWL sitting on its nest in a euc by the parking lot. I then went up Sierra Road and had 3 LARK SPARROWS on the wires along the way and 2 HORNED LARKS in the field at the summit. Mike Mammoser _______________________________________________ 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]]