From south-bay-birds-bounces+south-bay-birds-archive=[[email protected]] Fri Oct 22 14:54:03 2004 Received: from www.plaidworks.com (localhost [127.0.0.1]) by plaidworks.com (8.12.9/8.12.9) with ESMTP id i9MLp1jn007430 for <[[email protected]]>; Fri, 22 Oct 2004 14:51:02 -0700 (PDT) Received: from pony1pub.arc.nasa.gov (pony1pub.arc.nasa.gov [128.102.31.41]) by plaidworks.com (8.12.9/8.12.9) with ESMTP id i9MLnMVC007373 for <[[email protected]]>; Fri, 22 Oct 2004 14:49:22 -0700 (PDT) Received: from [129.99.140.24] (HELO mail.arc.nasa.gov) by pony1pub.arc.nasa.gov (CommuniGate Pro SMTP 4.1.8) with ESMTP id 14503437 for [[email protected]]; Fri, 22 Oct 2004 14:49:21 -0700 Message-ID: <[[email protected]]> Date: Fri, 22 Oct 2004 14:49:20 -0700 From: Mike Rogers <[[email protected]]> User-Agent: Mozilla/5.0 (Macintosh; U; PPC Mac OS X Mach-O; en-US; rv:1.4) Gecko/20030624 Netscape/7.1 X-Accept-Language: en-us, en MIME-Version: 1.0 To: [[email protected]] Content-Type: text/plain; charset=ISO-8859-1; format=flowed Content-Transfer-Encoding: 7bit Subject: [SBB] Sabine's Gull and Elegant Tern on Salt Pond A1 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]] All, Over lunch today 10/22/04, I headed up to the North Pond of the Palo Alto Flood Control Basin in search of the Sabine's Gull. This proved fruitless, as Mike Danzenbaker and Lee informed me that it had flown off in the direction of Charleston Slough 15 to 20 minutes earlier. A flock of 32 VIOLET-GREEN SWALLOWS overhead here was a bit unexpected though. We moved around to Charleston Slough and from there saw many BONAPARTE'S GULLS foraging over Salt Pond A1. Heading over there, I refound the SABINE'S GULL foraging over the northwest portion of the pond (still present there at 1:30pm). There were also several groups of FORSTER'S TERNS on the pond (totaling 49+ birds). I suggested to Mike that this would be a good time for an Elegant Tern, but he must have thought this a long shot and left. A few minutes later, I located an ELEGANT TERN perched with FORSTER'S TERNS on the wood pilings in the south central portion of the pond. I was able to show both the Sabine's Gull and the Elegant Tern to Curtis and Tate Schneider (sp?) before the Elegant Tern took off, circled the pond, and headed out toward the bay at 1:36pm. Four BLACK SKIMMERS were in outer pond A1 (looked like they flew from, and then back to, the island in the northwest corner), 16 BROWN PELICANS were around (8 on the wooden dock on Shoreline Lake, 2 on the island in southeast A1, and 6 soaring overhead), and a GOLDEN EAGLE was over the big NASA wind tunnel on the way back to work. On the way into work early this morning, after a failed check for the Sabine's Gull, I had 4 adult MEW GULLS in the Palo Alto yacht harbor (first of the fall). Mike Rogers _______________________________________________ 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]]