From south-bay-birds-bounces+south-bay-birds-archive=[[email protected]] Mon May 3 22:15:42 2004 Received: from www.plaidworks.com (localhost [127.0.0.1]) by plaidworks.com (8.12.9/8.12.9) with ESMTP id i445DvGt017484 for <[[email protected]]>; Mon, 3 May 2004 22:13:58 -0700 (PDT) Received: from rwcrmhc11.comcast.net (rwcrmhc11.comcast.net [204.127.198.35]) by plaidworks.com (8.12.9/8.12.9) with ESMTP id i445BrAg017426 for <[[email protected]]>; Mon, 3 May 2004 22:11:54 -0700 (PDT) Received: from 204.127.197.111 ([204.127.197.111]) by comcast.net (rwcrmhc11) with SMTP id <2004050405114501300ntluke>; Tue, 4 May 2004 05:11:45 +0000 Received: from [24.6.248.198] by 204.127.197.111; Tue, 04 May 2004 05:11:43 +0000 From: [[email protected]] To: [[email protected]] (SBB Chat Group) Date: Tue, 04 May 2004 05:11:43 +0000 Message-Id: <[[email protected]]> X-Mailer: AT&T Message Center Version 1 (Apr 12 2004) X-Authenticated-Sender: YmlyZGVybW9tQGNvbWNhc3QubmV0 Subject: [SBB] 5/1/04 Trip to Panoche Valley 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! This report is late - had a busy weekend. Thought you may like to hear about the end of (birding) season results from my trip to Panoche Valley last Saturday. A complete list of birds seen is contained below. The highlights are here. Didn't see SANDHILL CRANE at San Felipe Lake. Not much at the damn either. Got a great close-up view and pictures of a PRAIRIE FALCON sitting on a pole about 1/4 mile from turnoff towards Panoche Valley (see pictures on website - address given below). Never knew that they had three stripes (2 are really more like marks, but look at the picture, and you'll see why it looked like 3 stripes) down the sides of their face! A GOLDEN EAGLE came circling near the nest rock (jutting cliff-like outcropping about 1/2 way up) at 10:10am. Saw another about 5 miles up the canyon. Couldn't spot head in nest, but suspect this is their nest site. Saw LARK SPARROW. Hundreds of HORNED LARKS were nesting with young in barren fields between main valley road and half way to pass on way to Mercy Hotsprings. They were sitting all over the fence wires and posts for at least a mile and again on the other side of the pass for about a mile! I wondered about food sources and water, and when I stopped to take pictures, I stepped out of my car and crunch!%&#! I stepped on a grasshopper. The road, sides of road and grasses around road were crawling with a massive blight of them. It turns out that there were two species (see pics). Obviously, the HARNED LARKS and their offspring were getting both food and fluid from these insects, without even working for them! The last great bird were two GREATER ROADRUNNERS in the Bureau of Land Management's Panoche Hills, across from Mercy Hotsprings. The first was spotted about 1/2 mile from the gate at the top of the hill (closed for the fire season). It raced and flew to a bush on the top of a low ridge. After a few minutes of standing still, it worked it's way among the leaves into what I assumed could be a nest. A N. MOCKINGBIRD cleverly sat on top of the bush singing loud tunes, possibly in a symbiotic relationship with the Roadrunner (running interference). About 1/4 mile further up the hill, another Roadru nner was sitting on top of a fence preening. I got some pics - not the best, but pretty good. Other birds I spotted are listed below. Happy birding! Jean Myers Pictures Website: http://community.webshots.com/user/birdermom Day list including San Felipe Lake, the Damn and road to Panoche Valley: Double-cr. Cormorant Song Sp. 24 White Pelicans (at lake) Canada Goose w/ Goslings Pied-billed Grebe Brewer's Blackbird White-tailed Kite Mallard Pheasant Snowy Egret Yellow-billed Magpie Red-Tailed Hawk (one with two chicks next to Panoche Inn) Rock Pidgeon Mourning Dove Crow Raven Cooper's Hawk Red-winged Blackbird Violet-green Sw. Red-shouldered Hawk Black-necked Stilt (at damn) 50+ Gadwall Ruddy Duck Killdeer Brown-headed Cowbird Great Blue Heron Black Phoebe Prairie Falcon (on way up hill) Western Scrubjay Rough-winged Sw. CA Quail Euro. Starling Cliff Swallow Western Kingbird possible Cassin's Kingbird Western Bluebird House Finch Turkey Vultures Golden Eagle Oak Titmouse Western Meadowlark Savannah Sparrow House Sp. Horned Lark Bullock's Oriole (breeding) Northern Mockingbird Loggerhead Shrike Greater Roadrunner Anna's Hummingbird Ash-throated Flycatcher _______________________________________________ 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]]