From south-bay-birds-bounces+south-bay-birds-archive=[[email protected]] Tue Oct 12 15:46:38 2004 Received: from www.plaidworks.com (localhost [127.0.0.1]) by plaidworks.com (8.12.9/8.12.9) with ESMTP id i9CMiNjh021636 for <[[email protected]]>; Tue, 12 Oct 2004 15:44:23 -0700 (PDT) Received: from ylpvm29.prodigy.net (ylpvm29-ext.prodigy.net [207.115.57.60]) by plaidworks.com (8.12.9/8.12.9) with ESMTP id i9CMgdVC021572 for <[[email protected]]>; Tue, 12 Oct 2004 15:42:40 -0700 (PDT) Received: from [192.168.1.101] (adsl-66-126-229-161.dsl.sntc01.pacbell.net [66.126.229.161]) by ylpvm29.prodigy.net (8.12.10 outbound/8.12.10) with ESMTP id i9CMgH3t020073 for <[[email protected]]>; Tue, 12 Oct 2004 18:42:18 -0400 Mime-Version: 1.0 X-Sender: [[email protected]] Message-Id: Date: Tue, 12 Oct 2004 15:41:43 -0700 To: [[email protected]] From: Gordon Barrett <[[email protected]]> Content-Type: text/plain; charset="us-ascii" ; format="flowed" Subject: [SBB] EEC and State & Spreckles 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 birded with Janna Pauser today because she always finds a life bird for me and a bunch of fives! She did it again! My lifer for today: the Pectoral Sandpiper sitting, walking, posing on a small central island in the shallow pool at State & Spreckles in Alviso. A Ruff was foraging in the water very close to the road less than half way out to that island. Each siting is closer than the previous one! The big news is a GREY FOX at the EEC running up and down the cliff between the building and the pond by the levy trail. School kids were everywhere; whole classes saw it. And, in that context, Common Yellowthroat were in the open all over the beach, the bushes, the reeds, on the log! I had scope filling views of this elusive bird until the Hermit Thrush showed up to claim the stage. Eared Grebes were too numerous for me to count around and behind the first island in pond A18, right by the EEC stairs to the levy. I know Janna saw birds I missed and forgot to put on this list, but this is what I remember. Our 46 birds for before noon: Eared Grebe American White Pelican Northern Shovelor Turkey Vulture Northern Harrier Red-Shouldered Hawk American Kestrel Common Moorhen Killdeer American Avocet Black-Necked Stilt Lesser Yellowlegs Willet Long-Billed Curlew Pectoral Sandpiper Least Sandpiper Ruff Long-Billed Dowitcher Short-Billed Dowitcher Ring-Billed Gull California Gull Herring Gull Western Gull Mourning Dove Rock Pigeon Burrowing Owl Anna's Hummingbird Downy Woodpecker Northern Flicker (Red) Black Phoebe American Crow Bushtit Marsh Wren Ruby-Crowned Kinglet Hermit Thrush Northern Mockingbird European Starling Yellow-Rumped Warbler Common Yellowthroat California Towhee Savannah Sparrow Golden-crowned Sparrow White-crowned Sparrow Song Sparrow Red-Winged Blackbird House Finch 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]]