From south-bay-birds-bounces+south-bay-birds-archive=[[email protected]] Sat May 15 16:40:13 2004 Received: from www.plaidworks.com (localhost [127.0.0.1]) by plaidworks.com (8.12.9/8.12.9) with ESMTP id i4FNboV0027578 for <[[email protected]]>; Sat, 15 May 2004 16:37:51 -0700 (PDT) Received: from mtaw4.prodigy.net (mtaw4.prodigy.net [64.164.98.52]) by plaidworks.com (8.12.9/8.12.9) with ESMTP id i4FNZiD6027501 for <[[email protected]]>; Sat, 15 May 2004 16:35:44 -0700 (PDT) Received: from [192.168.1.100] (adsl-64-171-4-85.dsl.sntc01.pacbell.net [64.171.4.85]) by mtaw4.prodigy.net (8.12.10/8.12.10) with ESMTP id i4FNZKAq027049 for <[[email protected]]>; Sat, 15 May 2004 16:35:35 -0700 (PDT) Mime-Version: 1.0 X-Sender: [[email protected]] Message-Id: Date: Sat, 15 May 2004 16:34:52 -0700 To: [[email protected]] From: Gordon Barrett <[[email protected]]> Content-Type: text/plain; charset="us-ascii" ; format="flowed" Subject: [SBB] Villa Maria Basics 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]] As the list below reveals, I saw nothing unusual at Villa Maria Picnic Area today, Saturday, May 15, 2004. The cormorant flyover to and from the lake may be unpredictable, but not newsworthy. The most fun were the Blue-gray Gnatcatchers that hovered and flew around me knee high and five feet away. They are beautiful birds up that close. I found this a good day to practice my birding-by-ear and no optics, because, with time, my guesses revealed themselves up close enough to see, and the usuals were mostly all there. The Violet-green Swallows were also very generous by flying low in the parking area and even landing on the ground for no apparent reason. For me, a good day for the basics. Double-Crested Cormorant California Quail Turkey Vulture Red-Shouldered Hawk Mourning Dove Band-Tailed Pigeon Anna's Hummingbird Acorn Woodpecker Nuttall's Woodpecker Olive-sided Flycatcher Western Wood-Pewee Pacific-slope Flycatcher (ear) Black Phoebe Warbling Vireo (ear) Steller's Jay Western Scrub Jay American Crow Violet-green Swallow Oak Titmouse Chestnut-Backed Chickadee Wrentit (ear) Blue-gray Gnatcatcher American Robin European Starling Spotted Towee California Towhee Song Sparrow Oregon Junco House Finch Lesser Goldfinch House Sparrow Gordon -- Gordon Barrett [[email protected]] _______________________________________________ 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]]