From south-bay-birds-bounces+south-bay-birds-archive=[[email protected]] Sun May 23 11:48:11 2004 Received: from www.plaidworks.com (localhost [127.0.0.1]) by plaidworks.com (8.12.9/8.12.9) with ESMTP id i4NIl2Uv029835 for <[[email protected]]>; Sun, 23 May 2004 11:47:02 -0700 (PDT) Received: from imo-d22.mx.aol.com (imo-d22.mx.aol.com [205.188.144.208]) by plaidworks.com (8.12.9/8.12.9) with ESMTP id i4NIjLD6029772 for <[[email protected]]>; Sun, 23 May 2004 11:45:21 -0700 (PDT) Received: from [[email protected]] by imo-d22.mx.aol.com (mail_out_v37_r1.3.) id t.d5.d6c5ca8 (4222) for <[[email protected]]>; Sun, 23 May 2004 14:45:10 -0400 (EDT) From: [[email protected]] Message-ID: <[[email protected]]> Date: Sun, 23 May 2004 14:45:09 EDT To: [[email protected]] MIME-Version: 1.0 X-Mailer: 9.0 for Windows sub 5028 Content-Type: text/plain; charset="US-ASCII" Content-Transfer-Encoding: 7bit X-Content-Filtered-By: Mailman/MimeDel 2.1.5b1 Subject: [SBB] SCVAS Field Trip - Quicksilver CP 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]] Hello All, On Saturday, May 22, about 15 of us met to hike some trails at Almaden/Quicksilver County Park on an SCVAS Field Trip. We met at the McAbee Rd entrance to the park and then took what I call the "short loop" - the Senador Mines-Guadalupe-Mine Hill Trail loop - a distance of about 2 miles through habitats of oak/laurel woodlands, grassy meadows, and serpentine outcrops. The morning was overcast and misty and while we didn't find as great variety of birds as I had hoped, we did find some birds worth reporting. Starting out along the entry road bordering the Pierce farm we found a family of newly fledged HUTTON'S VIREOS still showing yellow gapes with the parents flying in to feed them. At the trailhead at least two VAUX'S SWIFTS were seen flying around with the more abundant VIOLET-GREEN SWALLOWS. We then headed up the Senador Mines Trail where the following birds were noted: a pair of interacting PURPLE FINCH, a handsome adult male COOPER'S HAWK, and a tantalizingly close heard-only N. PYGMY-OWL in the the dense woods down slope from the trail. Along the Guadalupe Trail we found several BLUE-GRAY GNATCATCHERS including a pair chasing off a marauding W. Scrub-Jay. Coming down Mine Hill Trail we saw a female WILD TURKEY shepherding 4-5 young poults in the high grass meadow (it was difficult to get an accurate count of the young ones in the tall grass). Back at the trailhead we watched a pair of W. BLUEBIRDS flycatching in a meadow and then flying up to a scraggly oak where they presumably had a nest site. Other birds of note included BAND-TAILED PIGEONS in an elderberry bush, at least three ASH-THROATED FLYCATCHERS (easier heard than seen), WARBLING VIREO, ORANGE-CROWNED WARBLER, and heard-only PACIFIC-SLOPE FLYCATCHER and WILSON'S WARBLER. A nice morning - Ann Verdi _______________________________________________ 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]]