From south-bay-birds-bounces+south-bay-birds-archive=[[email protected]] Tue May 4 15:39:15 2004 Received: from www.plaidworks.com (localhost [127.0.0.1]) by plaidworks.com (8.12.9/8.12.9) with ESMTP id i44MaVGw010000 for <[[email protected]]>; Tue, 4 May 2004 15:36:31 -0700 (PDT) Received: from imo-m25.mx.aol.com (imo-m25.mx.aol.com [64.12.137.6]) by plaidworks.com (8.12.9/8.12.9) with ESMTP id i44MZ6Ag009954 for <[[email protected]]>; Tue, 4 May 2004 15:35:07 -0700 (PDT) Received: from [[email protected]] by imo-m25.mx.aol.com (mail_out_v37_r1.3.) id t.c0.bc4eb89 (4592) for <[[email protected]]>; Tue, 4 May 2004 18:34:59 -0400 (EDT) From: [[email protected]] Message-ID: <[[email protected]]> Date: Tue, 4 May 2004 18:34:59 EDT To: [[email protected]] MIME-Version: 1.0 X-Mailer: 9.0 for Windows sub 5007 Content-Type: text/plain; charset="US-ASCII" Content-Transfer-Encoding: 7bit X-Content-Filtered-By: Mailman/MimeDel 2.1.5b1 Subject: [SBB] County goodies 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]] All, This morning Frank Vanslager and I saw four county year birds which at this time of the year is, as Frank would say, much, much "better than a three dog night" in Alaska (I would take his word for it). We started our morning on Disk Drive in Alviso where we were happy to run into Pat Kenny and Roland Kenner. Unfortunately even with their help we were unable to locate a single Yellow-headed Blackbird (not many RED-WINGED BLACKBIRDS either). The four of us then went to the Environmental Education Center where we ran into Bill Bousman and Kim Blythe just as they were leaving Salt Pond A-16. They informed us of the continuing presence of the RUDDY TURNSTONES (three was the high count for Bill and Kim as it was for us). They also had a female RED-NECKED PHALAROPE in the salt pond (we were fortunate in finding two females just before they flew toward the northeast and out of sight, a solo female RNPH was seen some time later). We also had at least two pairs of BLACK SKIMMERS (two each on islands three and four). Another "notable" sight was a mixed flock of 100 to 200 DUNLIN and WESTERN SANDPIPERS (perhaps a hundred Dunlin which often had to be looked over for rarities). A solo SEMIPALMATED PLOVER was spotted in New Chicago Marsh. Later as we were returning to our cars Roland spotted a WILSON'S PHALAROPE in the salt pond. This bird quickly flew from the pond and ultimately landed in New Chicago Marsh where it eventually "back-up" into a small clump of pickleweed and tried to nap. We tried to sex this bird but it seemed to be in an intermediate plumage that we could not decipher. The bird had black legs (an adult) and tended to look quite dull with very little color on the neck (I wouldn't think that we would have males here at his time of the year?). We then made another try for the Yellow-headed Blackbird checking several places where we thought one might be (the weeds were cut in the field east of Disk Drive so this site would seem to be defunct). A couple "notables" during this effort included WESTERN KINGBIRD (fence western edge of Arzino Ranch), ASH-THROATED FLYCATCHER (trees east of Wilson Way, near the school), and several easily seen, perched BURROWING OWLS (Arzino Ranch). Shortly after Pat and Roland left Frank and I finally found a female YELLOW-HEADED BLACKBIRD in Arzino Ranch (sorry guys). After a few minutes observation this bird flew southeast toward Hwy. 237 and Zanker Rd. Take care, Bob Reiling _______________________________________________ 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]]