From south-bay-birds-bounces+south-bay-birds-archive=[[email protected]] Mon Oct 11 11:49:38 2004 Received: from www.plaidworks.com (localhost [127.0.0.1]) by plaidworks.com (8.12.9/8.12.9) with ESMTP id i9BIkjjo026952 for <[[email protected]]>; Mon, 11 Oct 2004 11:46:46 -0700 (PDT) Received: from mail07a.vwh1.net (mail07a.vwh1.net [131.103.218.80]) by plaidworks.com (8.12.9/8.12.9) with SMTP id i9BIjWVC026907 for <[[email protected]]>; Mon, 11 Oct 2004 11:45:41 -0700 (PDT) Received: from www.hiddenvilla.org (209.238.180.140) by mail07a.vwh1.net (RS ver 1.0.94vs) with SMTP id 2-053680326 for <[[email protected]]>; Mon, 11 Oct 2004 14:45:31 -0400 (EDT) Message-ID: <008801c4afc2$51742960$[[email protected]]> From: "Garth Harwood" <[[email protected]]> To: "SBB" <[[email protected]]> Date: Mon, 11 Oct 2004 11:44:14 -0700 MIME-Version: 1.0 X-Priority: 3 X-MSMail-Priority: Normal X-Mailer: Microsoft Outlook Express 6.00.2800.1409 X-MimeOLE: Produced By Microsoft MimeOLE V6.00.2800.1409 X-Loop-Detect: 1 Content-Type: text/plain; charset="iso-8859-1" X-Content-Filtered-By: Mailman/MimeDel 2.1.5b1 Subject: [SBB] Lawrence's Goldfinches, Siskins, etc. 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]] Content-Transfer-Encoding: 8bit X-MIME-Autoconverted: from quoted-printable to 8bit by plaidworks.com id i9BIkjjo026952 Things were very finchy at Monte Bello OSP this morning (10/11/2004). I parked at 8AM by the big pines just west of the parking lot and walked in via the Canyon Trail. Even before I got to the sag pond there, a Lawrence's Goldfinch flew over with its uniquely sweet-toned tinkling flight calls. At the south end of the pond, a cooperative mixed flock of finches perched in a tall willow included half a dozen Pine Siskins and at least 14 Purple Finches (one of the larger aggregations of the latter species that I've seen in the county). There were also plentiful Lesser Goldfinches about. I then walked down to the Indian Creek Trail, up to the backpack camp, and back by way of the Bella Vista Trail. It was too windy and bright for birds up on top, but a pair of Sharp-shinned Hawks were messing with each other and with a bunch of jays just above the chaparral on the way up, making some surprising (and frankly undignified) noises as they did so - creaks and rattles and so forth. On the Bella Vista trail I scared up another small flock of finches, including at least one LAGO, which flew off to the south. When I closed the loop and returned to the sag pond about 10:15 the now almost-pure siskin flock alighted all around me in the willows by milepost 0.3. There were at least 25 siskins at this point. Among them was an adult male Lawrence's Goldfinch perched just 20 feet away. Putting all of this together, I figure there was a bare minimum of 2 LAGO up there this morning - but probably more. There was a Red-breasted Nuthatch in the mixed-forest stand near the base of the Indian Creek Trail. --Garth Harwood _______________________________________________ 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]]