From south-bay-birds-bounces+south-bay-birds-archive=[[email protected]] Mon May 3 16:40:55 2004 Received: from www.plaidworks.com (localhost [127.0.0.1]) by plaidworks.com (8.12.9/8.12.9) with ESMTP id i43NcSH3011665 for <[[email protected]]>; Mon, 3 May 2004 16:38:29 -0700 (PDT) Received: from grebe.mail.pas.earthlink.net (grebe.mail.pas.earthlink.net [207.217.120.46]) by plaidworks.com (8.12.9/8.12.9) with ESMTP id i43NarAg011621 for <[[email protected]]>; Mon, 3 May 2004 16:36:53 -0700 (PDT) Received: from user-2ivfk0n.dialup.mindspring.com ([165.247.208.23]) by grebe.mail.pas.earthlink.net with esmtp (Exim 3.33 #1) id 1BKmzO-0001hN-00 for [[email protected]]; Mon, 03 May 2004 16:36:47 -0700 Mime-Version: 1.0 (Apple Message framework v613) Content-Transfer-Encoding: 7bit Message-Id: <[[email protected]]> Content-Type: text/plain; charset=US-ASCII; format=flowed To: South Bay Birders <[[email protected]]> From: Les Chibana <[[email protected]]> Date: Mon, 3 May 2004 16:37:46 -0700 X-Mailer: Apple Mail (2.613) Subject: [SBB] Alum Rock Park - Sunday 5/2/04 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 took my birding class to Alum Rock Park yesterday and the we had a nice assortment of breeding bird signs. We saw a WILD TURKEY hen along the North Rim trail at the east end of the loop trail with about 10 small chicks. A pair of AMERICAN KESTREL were carrying food to a nest in the headless palm above the North Rim Trail. They've nested here before. While looking at the 3 GREAT HORNED OWL nestlings and parent on Alum Rock (one of the rangers told us about this nest), Debbi Brusco located a BARN OWL nestling in a crevice on the same rock. Amazing bit of spotting! At the Rusticlands picnic area, a pair of NUTTALL'S WOODPECKERs were feeding young in a nest between the two parking lots. NORTHERN ROUGH-WINGED SWALLOWs seemed to be going into a nest site in the creek in the area of the mineral water basins and baths. A adult OAK TITMOUSE fed fledglings near the Youth Science Institute (YSI). A BEWICK'S WREN went into a tree cavity along the creek downstream from YSI. A female BLACK-HEADED GROSBEAK was seen on a nest over the trail upstream from Alum Rock. Best of all were the AMERICAN DIPPERs feeding 3-4 young along the creek in the area of the mineral basins and baths. One adult fed two fledglings under the first bridge upstream of the bridge at the end of the parking lot at YSI. Two more juveniles were seen a bit further upstream, but it was difficult to tell if one of them was moving up- and downstream. Another adult was carrying food upstream from under the bridge at YSI. Also seen was a male Rufous/Allen's Hummingbird along the North Rim Trail. It had a modicum of green back feathering and the tail was not seen in spread posture. A BLUE-GRAY GNATCATCHER was seen in sage near the area of the palm trees along the North Rim Trail. A male HOODED ORIOLE was at the palms as well as around the Rusticlands parking area. One LAZULI BUNTING was seen, not heard, along the North Rim Trail. Oddly, we only had possible heard-only detections of warblers, an Orange- crowned and a Wilson's. No tanagers or Cassin's Vireos were detected. Les Chibana, Palo Alto _______________________________________________ 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]]