From south-bay-birds-bounces+south-bay-birds-archive=[[email protected]] Sun Mar 28 14:42:53 2004 Received: from www.plaidworks.com (localhost [127.0.0.1]) by plaidworks.com (8.12.9/8.12.9) with ESMTP id i2SMeMAp025435 for <[[email protected]]>; Sun, 28 Mar 2004 14:40:22 -0800 (PST) Received: from mailgate02.slac.stanford.edu (mailgate02.slac.stanford.edu [134.79.18.92]) by plaidworks.com (8.12.9/8.12.9) with ESMTP id i2SMdZpJ025394 for <[[email protected]]>; Sun, 28 Mar 2004 14:39:35 -0800 (PST) Received: from flora03.slac.stanford.edu (flora03.slac.stanford.edu [134.79.16.55]) by mailgate02.slac.stanford.edu (8.12.11/8.12.11) with ESMTP id i2SMdYWp019551 for <[[email protected]]>; Sun, 28 Mar 2004 14:39:34 -0800 (PST) (envelope-from [[email protected]]) Received: from localhost (eisner@localhost) by flora03.slac.stanford.edu (8.12.10+Sun/8.12.5/Submit-solaris) with ESMTP id i2SMdXiv005899 for <[[email protected]]>; Sun, 28 Mar 2004 14:39:33 -0800 (PST) X-Authentication-Warning: flora03.slac.stanford.edu: eisner owned process doing -bs Date: Sun, 28 Mar 2004 14:39:33 -0800 (PST) From: Al Eisner <[[email protected]]> To: [[email protected]] Message-ID: <[[email protected]]> MIME-Version: 1.0 Content-Type: TEXT/PLAIN; charset=US-ASCII Subject: [SBB] South County 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]] This morning (March 28) I walked north from Bloomfield Road along the west side of Llagas Creek. The landbirding was rather disappointing -- apart from Swallows, the only spring bird I detected was a Bullock's Oriole (heard calling). Several Marsh Wrens are still singing along the creek; and I briefly heard one or two Virginia Rails. The ponds were somewhat more interesting, the "best" bird being a Lesser Yellowlegs, with a large flock of Greaters in the second pond (from the south). My total of Greaters in the first two ponds was 35. There were also two breeding-plumaged American Avocets, along with the expected Stilts. The 11 species of ducks included at least 30 Cinnamon Teal, 4 Ring-necked Ducks, 1 Common Goldeneye and 2 Bufflehead; there were 8 or so American Wigeon, but I didn't spot the Eurasian which Bill had reported 12 days earlier. After this I headed up to the Coyote Reservoir dam area. I had hoped for a Rock Wren, but didn't pick up any hint of one; there was a fair amount of human activity. A flock of a dozen or so Northern Rough-winged Swallows was using (or at least checking out) the holes in the concrete side-wall of the spillway. I heard some Orange-crowned Warblers singing here and along the road, but not much else of note. Al Eisner _______________________________________________ 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]]