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Subject: [SBB] no swans at A9
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Are negative reports helpful?
I biked along the western side of salt pond A9 at Alviso around 3pm
today hoping for swans.  There were plenty of white pelicans, but
alas, none of them sprouted long necks or black bills.

Though, when we got to the northern end, a group of three hunters
and a dog were shooting and scaring the birds on the north side of
the levee, so it's possible that any swans had already hightailed
it out of there.  (Apparently that isn't part of the wildlife
refuge, so it's legal?)

Also seen: a long billed curlew, several ruddy ducks and female
lesser scaups (I think they were lesser, based on the head shape:
http://shallowsky.com/Birds/Waterbirds/lesser_scaup_f2.jpg),
a hawk that I think was a female northern harrier, great and
snowy egrets, one blue heron, one brown pelican, lots of grebes
(pied-billed, a few western, possibly some eared?), and a duck with
a tail like a male pintail but with no white stripe on the neck
(http://shallowsky.com/Birds/Waterbirds/pintail.jpg).

Earlier in the day I got a nice look at a pair of white-tailed
kites hanging out together in a tree on the north side of the big
field at Sunnyvale Baylands.

	...Akkana
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