From south-bay-birds-bounces+south-bay-birds-archive=[[email protected]] Mon Oct 11 14:42:23 2004 Received: from www.plaidworks.com (localhost [127.0.0.1]) by plaidworks.com (8.12.9/8.12.9) with ESMTP id i9BLdkjp029492 for <[[email protected]]>; Mon, 11 Oct 2004 14:39:47 -0700 (PDT) Received: from ylpvm43.prodigy.net (ylpvm43-ext.prodigy.net [207.115.57.74]) by plaidworks.com (8.12.9/8.12.9) with ESMTP id i9BLd2VC029451 for <[[email protected]]>; Mon, 11 Oct 2004 14:39:03 -0700 (PDT) Received: from [192.168.1.101] (adsl-66-126-229-161.dsl.sntc01.pacbell.net [66.126.229.161]) by ylpvm43.prodigy.net (8.12.10 outbound/8.12.10) with ESMTP id i9BLd99q001540 for <[[email protected]]>; Mon, 11 Oct 2004 17:39:09 -0400 Mime-Version: 1.0 X-Sender: [[email protected]] Message-Id: Date: Mon, 11 Oct 2004 14:38:04 -0700 To: [[email protected]] From: Gordon Barrett <[[email protected]]> Content-Type: text/plain; charset="us-ascii" ; format="flowed" Subject: [SBB] Shrike at Adobe Creek 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]] I visited Adobe Creek, the Coast Casey Forebay, and Charleston Slough today, Monday, October 11, 2004. I birded as my wife took photos. The usual birds were complemented by a LOGGERHEAD SHRIKE that has been hanging around sitting on the posts in the flood control basin for the last month. I've been told by others that this is an unusual location for this bird, but I don't really know. The posts are short ones opposite the "Diversity" sign on the levy trail, across the creek to the North. It shares the posts with the White-tailed Kites. Both birds can be seen consuming prey while on the posts. Lots of brightly colored Cinnamon Teal today, and the first American Wigeons I've seen here this Fall. There were three black billed Forster's Terns (first year?) on posts in salt pond A1 with the Ruddy Ducks. The weather was spectacular! List of 43 mostly predictable birds: Pied-billed Grebe American White Pelican Double-Crested Cormorant Great Egret Snowy Egret Black Crowned Night Heron Canada Goose Mallard Gadwall Northern Pintail American Wigeon Northern Shovelor Cinnamon Teal Green-Winged Teal Ruddy Duck Northern Harrier White-tailed Kite American Coot Killdeer American Avocet Black-Necked Stilt Greater Yellowlegs Willet Long-Billed Curlew Marbled Godwit Western Sandpiper Least Sandpiper Long-Billed Dowitcher Bonaparte's Gull Ring-Billed Gull Western Gull Forster's Tern Mourning Dove Anna's Hummingbird Black Phoebe Loggerhead Shrike Common Raven Northern Mockingbird California Towhee Golden-crowned Sparrow Song Sparrow House Finch Lesser Goldfinch Gordon -- Gordon Barrett [[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]]