From south-bay-birds-bounces+south-bay-birds-archive=[[email protected]] Tue May 11 18:28:38 2004 Received: from www.plaidworks.com (localhost [127.0.0.1]) by plaidworks.com (8.12.9/8.12.9) with ESMTP id i4C1QKV0021528 for <[[email protected]]>; Tue, 11 May 2004 18:26:21 -0700 (PDT) Received: from mail07d.vwh1.net (mail07d.vwh1.net [207.201.152.72]) by plaidworks.com (8.12.9/8.12.9) with SMTP id i4C1PAD6021481 for <[[email protected]]>; Tue, 11 May 2004 18:25:10 -0700 (PDT) Received: from www.hiddenvilla.org (209.238.180.140) by mail07d.vwh1.net (RS ver 1.0.92vs) with SMTP id 0-0611634345; Tue, 11 May 2004 21:12:26 -0400 (EDT) Message-ID: <005c01c437be$1a2eb8c0$[[email protected]]> From: "Garth Harwood" <[[email protected]]> To: "SBB" <[[email protected]]> Date: Tue, 11 May 2004 18:11:47 -0700 MIME-Version: 1.0 X-Priority: 3 X-MSMail-Priority: Normal X-Mailer: Microsoft Outlook Express 6.00.2800.1106 X-MimeOLE: Produced By Microsoft MimeOLE V6.00.2800.1106 X-Loop-Detect: 1 Content-Type: text/plain; charset="iso-8859-1" X-Content-Filtered-By: Mailman/MimeDel 2.1.5b1 Cc: [[email protected]], [[email protected]] Subject: [SBB] Hidden Villa birds today 5/11/04 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]] Content-Transfer-Encoding: 8bit X-MIME-Autoconverted: from quoted-printable to 8bit by plaidworks.com id i4C1QKV0021528 Hi all, Took an afternoon hike to check on the status of nesting birds and see if there were any migrants still about. Species feeding groups of fledglings out of the nest included Orange-crowned Warblers (3x), Chestnut-backed Chickadee (3x), Dark-eyed Juncos (2x), and single groups of Oak Titmice, Bewick's Wrens, and Hutton's Vireos. Black Phoebes and American Robins were seen feeding young on nests. It was fun to observe a pair of Blue-gray Gnatcatchers building a nest 12" up in a Mountain Mahogany bush overhanging the trail; I have observed 4 such episodes this spring dating from 4/15 and in each case both adult birds were equally active in nest construction, bellying down into the cup to shape it and working around the rim with new material. An unexpected treat was a juvenile Winter Wren along upper Adobe Creek. When first seen this bird appeared to be a rodent ducking under an eroded creekbank, but then it emerged right at my feet and foraged for 10 minutes fearlessly. Its yellow gape was still showing and its chest was busy with the complex mottling shown on pg. 387 of the Sibley guide. There was no sign of a family group or parents in attendance. Sibley gives the dates as "June-August" for juv. WIWR, but there was no doubt about this individual. The only obvious migrant this afternoon was a single, silent Townsend's Warbler foraging in an oak. This morning, however, Western Tanagers were heard along the creek on the farm and a Cassin's Vireo sang vigorously by the milkhouse. My colleague Josh Bennett reported a single Black-throated Gray Warbler this AM as well. --Garth Harwood _______________________________________________ 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]]