From south-bay-birds-bounces+south-bay-birds-archive=[[email protected]] Tue May 11 23:11:31 2004 Received: from www.plaidworks.com (localhost [127.0.0.1]) by plaidworks.com (8.12.9/8.12.9) with ESMTP id i4C69KV0026268 for <[[email protected]]>; Tue, 11 May 2004 23:09:21 -0700 (PDT) Received: from imo-m21.mx.aol.com (imo-m21.mx.aol.com [64.12.137.2]) by plaidworks.com (8.12.9/8.12.9) with ESMTP id i4C68BD6026229 for <[[email protected]]>; Tue, 11 May 2004 23:08:12 -0700 (PDT) Received: from [[email protected]] by imo-m21.mx.aol.com (mail_out_v37_r1.3.) id t.1da.213a72ea (16781) for <[[email protected]]>; Wed, 12 May 2004 02:08:05 -0400 (EDT) From: [[email protected]] Message-ID: <[[email protected]]> Date: Wed, 12 May 2004 02:08:04 EDT To: [[email protected]] MIME-Version: 1.0 X-Mailer: 8.0 for Windows sub 6804 Content-Type: text/plain; charset="US-ASCII" Content-Transfer-Encoding: 7bit X-Content-Filtered-By: Mailman/MimeDel 2.1.5b1 Subject: [SBB] Lake Cunningham rookery 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! The heron and egret rookery island at Lake Cunningham Park was full of high drama today, with Black-crowned Night Heron chicks of all sizes fussing and (s)qwock-ing all over the island. On top of the island there are three Great Egret nests, and although the highest nest looked as though it were still being incubated, both nests on either side of the highest nest had hungry chicks inside! (As you're looking at the island from the south, the left nest had 3 chicks and the right nest showed 1 chick.) Green Herons and Snowy Egrets were also present on and around the island. Walking around the lake, I watched a BCNH snatch a young Pied-billed Grebe by the neck and carry it off towards the reeds. A few minutes later the BCNH abandoned the (now dead) chick. I guess he bit off a little more than he could chew? A Great Blue Heron flew over and checked out the now floating grebe chick, but passed it up; the mother PBGR with her three other chicks also swam by it... They've mowed the high weeds around the Cunningham Road side of the park, and the Burrowing Owl that lives on Cunningham near Capitol Expwy was sitting up on the barbed wire fence. It made a few good passes at a ground squirrel, but settled back down by his burrow lunch-less. The burrow is right across the street from Supreme Drive--one block east of Capitol Expway--and is quite visible now with the short grass. Kim Blythe Santa Clara _______________________________________________ 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]]