From south-bay-birds-bounces+south-bay-birds-archive=[[email protected]] Sat Nov 20 16:32:08 2004 Received: from www.plaidworks.com (localhost [127.0.0.1]) by plaidworks.com (8.12.9/8.12.9) with ESMTP id iAL0U5jn025002 for <[[email protected]]>; Sat, 20 Nov 2004 16:30:06 -0800 (PST) Received: from mxsf15.cluster1.charter.net (mxsf15.cluster1.charter.net [209.225.28.215]) by plaidworks.com (8.12.9/8.12.9) with ESMTP id iAL0SlVC024963 for <[[email protected]]>; Sat, 20 Nov 2004 16:28:48 -0800 (PST) Received: from mxip13.cluster1.charter.net (mxip13a.cluster1.charter.net [209.225.28.143]) by mxsf15.cluster1.charter.net (8.12.11/8.12.11) with ESMTP id iAL0SjrO028271 for <[[email protected]]>; Sat, 20 Nov 2004 19:28:45 -0500 Received: from 68-185-90-23.ca.charter.com (HELO cfu3b) (68.185.90.23) by mxip13.cluster1.charter.net with SMTP; 20 Nov 2004 19:28:45 -0500 X-Ironport-AV: i="3.87,102,1099285200"; d="scan'208"; a="570642445:sNHT12888944" Message-ID: <000d01c4cf62$9d8c9fc0$175ab944@cfu3b> From: "Steve and Heather Rottenborn" <[[email protected]]> To: "SBB" <[[email protected]]> Date: Sat, 20 Nov 2004 16:39:52 -0800 MIME-Version: 1.0 Content-Type: text/plain; charset="iso-8859-1" Content-Transfer-Encoding: 7bit X-Priority: 3 X-MSMail-Priority: Normal X-Mailer: Microsoft Outlook Express 6.00.2600.0000 X-MimeOLE: Produced By Microsoft MimeOLE V6.00.2600.0000 Subject: [SBB] South Bay waterbirds 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]] South Bay Birders: This morning (20 Nov.) I had some "work" to do around the Alviso salt ponds and pond A-4 in Sunnyvale. A group of 25 Tundra Swans with an adult Greater White-fronted Goose over the vicinity of pond A-16 in Alviso in the early morning was followed later by 15 Tundras and 12 White-fronteds over New Chicago Marsh. Still later, 49 Tundra Swans were flying over the vicinity of pond A-4. These flocks seemed to be milling around the South Bay, and I repeatedly saw smaller groups of both species flying around, so I could not be certain of the total number of individuals present. Pond A-4 had 8 Clark's and 22 Western Grebes, including an apparent juvenile Western repeatedly begging from and being fed by a slightly larger (and especially larger-billed) Western, presumably an adult. I've seen this behavior from both Clark's and Westerns before on the South Bay salt ponds, where Aechmophorus grebes do not breed, although I've never seen a reference to this (i.e., juvenile Aechmos migrating with, and continuing to be fed by, adults late into the fall) in the literature. I scoped the larger Sunnyvale WPCP pond from the A-4 levee and counted 7 male Eurasian Wigeon (2 duller-headed than the others but not appearing to be hybrids, at least from this distance) and one obvious hybrid male American x Eurasian, which had extensive green on the side of a dull rusty-brown head, extensive brown on the lower face, and rusty sides. Good birding, Steve Rottenborn Morgan Hill [[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]]