From south-bay-birds-bounces+south-bay-birds-archive=[[email protected]] Wed May 5 20:14:45 2004 Received: from www.plaidworks.com (localhost [127.0.0.1]) by plaidworks.com (8.12.9/8.12.9) with ESMTP id i463CwGw017076 for <[[email protected]]>; Wed, 5 May 2004 20:12:59 -0700 (PDT) Received: from imo-m24.mx.aol.com (imo-m24.mx.aol.com [64.12.137.5]) by plaidworks.com (8.12.9/8.12.9) with ESMTP id i463C6Ag017030 for <[[email protected]]>; Wed, 5 May 2004 20:12:07 -0700 (PDT) Received: from [[email protected]] by imo-m24.mx.aol.com (mail_out_v37_r1.3.) id t.1e1.1fb06cff (3964) for <[[email protected]]>; Wed, 5 May 2004 23:12:03 -0400 (EDT) From: [[email protected]] Message-ID: <[[email protected]]> Date: Wed, 5 May 2004 23:12:03 EDT To: [[email protected]] MIME-Version: 1.0 X-Mailer: 8.0 for Windows sub 6800 Content-Type: text/plain; charset="US-ASCII" Content-Transfer-Encoding: 7bit X-Content-Filtered-By: Mailman/MimeDel 2.1.5b1 Subject: [SBB] Dippity-Doo-Dah and GHOWLET! 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 All! For the second day in a row, I got some great extended views of three American Dipper babies growing up. Yesterday around 1 PM, after running into Dean Manley at Alum Rock park, we watched three baby dippers and their mother just downstream of the bridge in front of the YSI. The babies hopped around the cement waterfall and the pond just below it, at times walking along the edge of the cement under the waterfall, at times bobbing on the log and rocks in the pond, and at times pecking at the edges of the water. The mother was kept quite busy tracking down food and taking care of whichever "squeaky-wheel" acted hungriest every time she returned. When I went back today (again around 1PM), one of the babies was in the same spot, and was occasionally visited by mama. The other two were upstream, at the next waterfall spot (which I understand was the location of the nest site). The two babies here could be seen upstream from the footbridge, and the mother kept flying and vocalizing both up and downstream from this spot. I was so excited I dragged Mom back this evening, and this time all three babies and the mother were at the upstream waterfall. From the creek's edge we got great close views of the dippers. On top all of the dipper--dee--doo was the Great Horned Owl and Owlet sitting on the cliff just after the parking lot's end!! Right there. Out in the open... but camouflaged so well!! This evening, the downy-fluffy-white owlet was sitting very high right next to mom and both were gazing out at us. (Thanks Dean for pointing them out yesterday!!) As a side note, just above the upper waterfall on the overhanging rock edge, there is a Black Phoebe nest. A phoebe flew up to it a few times, but there were no nestlings, and we didn't see any feeding or incubating behavior. List of birds for today follows. Kim Blythe Santa Clara Bushtit Oak Titmouse (and fledgling) Black Phoebe Nuttall's Woodpecker Spotted Towhee Turkey Vulture Steller's Jay Black-headed Grosbeak Chestnut-backed Chickadee California Towhee European Starling American Robin Red-tailed Hawk Northern Rough-winged Swallow Cedar Waxwing Mourning Dove Warbling Vireo Mallard Acorn Woodpecker Anna's Hummingbird American Kestrel Song Sparrow Band-tailed Pigeon Song Sparrow Great Horned Owl American Dipper Western Scrub-Jay American Goldfinch Belted Kingfisher Cooper's Hawk Western Wood-Pewee Bullock's Oriole _______________________________________________ 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]]