From south-bay-birds-bounces+south-bay-birds-archive=[[email protected]] Wed Oct 13 15:36:15 2004 Received: from www.plaidworks.com (localhost [127.0.0.1]) by plaidworks.com (8.12.9/8.12.9) with ESMTP id i9DMXLjj011548 for <[[email protected]]>; Wed, 13 Oct 2004 15:33:22 -0700 (PDT) Received: from ylpvm01.prodigy.net (ylpvm01-ext.prodigy.net [207.115.57.32]) by plaidworks.com (8.12.9/8.12.9) with ESMTP id i9DMW6VC011506 for <[[email protected]]>; Wed, 13 Oct 2004 15:32:11 -0700 (PDT) Received: from [192.168.1.101] (adsl-66-126-229-161.dsl.sntc01.pacbell.net [66.126.229.161]) by ylpvm01.prodigy.net (8.12.10 outbound/8.12.10) with ESMTP id i9DMVwt0020765 for <[[email protected]]>; Wed, 13 Oct 2004 18:31:59 -0400 Mime-Version: 1.0 X-Sender: [[email protected]] Message-Id: Date: Wed, 13 Oct 2004 15:31:10 -0700 To: [[email protected]] From: Gordon Barrett <[[email protected]]> Content-Type: text/plain; charset="us-ascii" ; format="flowed" Subject: [SBB] Los Gatos Creek Ponds & Vasona 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 did not find the GOOD birds on this list; they jumped out in front of me and made themselves unavoidable. It happened like this. After actually trying to bird Los Gatos Creek Ponds this morning, Wednesday, October 13, 2004, and finding little there except for two American Kestrels, three American Wigeons, and the "usual,'I had a hot dog for lunch. In an effort to digest the hot dog I turned into Vasona for a walk in the 1pm sun. As my van crossed the car bridge under the Great Blue Heron nests, a small flock of 8 or so COMMON MERGANSERs took off from the creek and flew away. A bonus bird, I think, and look for a place in the shade to park. I turned off the engine as the BROWN CREEPER landed on the tree trunk in front of me. It foraged straight up the trunk, no spiral, and returned to the bottom for a second trip off to one side, and another trip more off to the side, etc. I finally get out of the van and moved to the end of the parking lot to the shade beneath a odd looking conifer. Looking up I see my first RED-BREASTED SAPSUCKER of the season. Ok, this is feeling weird, so I dodge my way through Chickadees and Titmice to get to the waters edge where I am greeted by the SPOTTED SANDPIPER who jumps up on a rock and proceeds to dance. The Belted Kingfisher flies in and warns me in no uncertain terms that I had better leave, so I do. Just before I start my van, the Red-Shouldered Hawk screams at me overhead. I don't know what's going on there now because I hurried home to write this. Happy birding, and get lucky out there! Four birds I haven't seen in months, and 29 others: Pied-billed Grebe Double-Crested Cormorant Great Egret Green Heron Black Crowned Night Heron Canada Goose Mallard Gadwall American Wigeon Common Merganser Ruddy Duck Red-Shouldered Hawk American Kestrel American Coot Killdeer Spotted Sandpiper Mourning Dove Rock Pigeon Anna's Hummingbird Belted Kingfisher Red-Breasted Sapsucker Northern Flicker (Red) Black Phoebe Western Scrub Jay American Crow Oak Titmouse Chestnut-Backed Chickadee Brown Creeper Northern Mockingbird Yellow-Rumped Warbler Golden-crowned Sparrow White-crowned Sparrow Red-Winged Blackbird 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]]