From south-bay-birds-bounces+south-bay-birds-archive=[[email protected]] Sat Nov 20 22:13:09 2004 Received: from www.plaidworks.com (localhost [127.0.0.1]) by plaidworks.com (8.12.9/8.12.9) with ESMTP id iAL6BCjn029289 for <[[email protected]]>; Sat, 20 Nov 2004 22:11:12 -0800 (PST) Received: from pop-a065d19.pas.sa.earthlink.net (pop-a065d19.pas.sa.earthlink.net [207.217.121.253]) by plaidworks.com (8.12.9/8.12.9) with ESMTP id iAL6A1VC029245 for <[[email protected]]>; Sat, 20 Nov 2004 22:10:02 -0800 (PST) Received: from dialup-4.246.36.235.dial1.sanjose1.level3.net ([4.246.36.235]) by pop-a065d19.pas.sa.earthlink.net with esmtp (Exim 3.33 #1) id 1CVkv8-0002jj-00 for [[email protected]]; Sat, 20 Nov 2004 22:09:59 -0800 Mime-Version: 1.0 (Apple Message framework v609) Content-Transfer-Encoding: 7bit Message-Id: <[[email protected]]> Content-Type: text/plain; charset=US-ASCII; format=flowed To: SBB <[[email protected]]> From: Matthew Dodder <[[email protected]]> Date: Sat, 20 Nov 2004 22:12:57 -0800 X-Mailer: Apple Mail (2.609) Subject: [SBB] Geng Road and SWPCP 11-20-04 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]] All, Cricket and I made an early morning stop at the pond on Geng Road in Palo Alto which produced good looks at a lovely pair of HOODED MERGANSERS. The day before I had stopped here and failed to find them but go an adult PEREGRINE FALCON on the power tower, a FOX SPARROW and HERMIT THRUSH in the underbrush and loads of YELLOW-RUMPED WARBLERS, RUBY-CROWNED KINGLET and HUTTON'S VIREO in the willows overhead as consolations. We also stopped in at the Duck Pond at the end of Embarcadero in hopes of relocating the Blue-winged Teal. No luck there unfortunately but a SHARP-SHINNED HAWK made a brief appearance as we left the area. There were lots of Gulls on the mud flats including a few dozen BONAPARTE'S GULLS. Later in the afternoon, after visiting a few San Mateo County locations, we were able to locate 4 brilliant male EURASIAN WIGEONS in the west pond at Sunnyvale Water Pollution Control Plant. The pond was filled with enormous numbers of ducks, mostly American Wigeons and Northern Shovelers, but of course other species such as Northern Pintail, Gadwall, Mallard, Ruddy Duck were also well represented. Three of the male EUWIs were seen together in one scope view, while a fourth bird was visible about 50 yards away at the same time. Two additional birds may have been the previously reported hybrids and were striking in their pale golden faces and darker rust where green might appear on typical AMWIs. Still, the overall pattern was not as well defined as the hybrid images in Sibley, so I'm not exactly sure what to make of these birds. Certainly some proportion of them is EUWI, but how much? Shocking also was the great number of COMMON MOORHEN that we saw. During our two hour walk, we observed no less than 25 individuals, many of which appeared quite comfortable in the open. Matthew Dodder http://www.birdguy.net _______________________________________________ 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]]