From south-bay-birds-bounces+south-bay-birds-archive=[[email protected]] Fri Sep 10 20:49:48 2004 Received: from www.plaidworks.com (localhost [127.0.0.1]) by plaidworks.com (8.12.9/8.12.9) with ESMTP id i8B3lKwU008418 for <[[email protected]]>; Fri, 10 Sep 2004 20:47:21 -0700 (PDT) Received: from smtp809.mail.sc5.yahoo.com (smtp809.mail.sc5.yahoo.com [66.163.168.188]) by plaidworks.com (8.12.9/8.12.9) with SMTP id i8B3js1c008378 for <[[email protected]]>; Fri, 10 Sep 2004 20:45:54 -0700 (PDT) Received: from unknown (HELO ?192.168.1.2?) ([[email protected]]@63.193.245.244 with plain) by smtp809.mail.sc5.yahoo.com with SMTP; 11 Sep 2004 03:45:53 -0000 Mime-Version: 1.0 (Apple Message framework v613) Content-Transfer-Encoding: 7bit Message-Id: <[[email protected]]> Content-Type: text/plain; charset=US-ASCII; format=flowed To: [[email protected]] From: Karen DeMello <[[email protected]]> Date: Fri, 10 Sep 2004 20:41:05 -0700 X-Mailer: Apple Mail (2.613) Subject: [SBB] Charleston Slough & Alviso 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]] Around 5:30 PM there was a male PEACOCK walking on the gravel road by the bleachers at Charleston Slough. The tide was low, so most of the slough was muddy and there were shorebirds galore! The highlight: 4 SEMI-PALMATED PLOVERS very close to shore. Lots of colorless AMERICAN AVOCETS, plus SNOWY EGRETS, WILLETS, LONG-BILLED CURLEW, a WHIMBREL, MARBLED GODWITS and DOWITCHERS. BLACK-NECKED STILTS stood on the Black Skimmer island (but no skimmers), Several small groups of AMERICAN WHITE PELICANS congregated along Adobe Creek, and 2 WHITE-TAILED KITES flew over the marsh. At lunchtime today Jan Hintermeister and I darted over to Alviso in hopes of seeing the Roadrunner. When we got there Dean Manley said he'd seen it 10 minutes earlier, but it had disappeared. We roamed around for a half hour or so, and after popping into SFBBO to say 'hi' we headed back to the levy to take one last look. Dean waved us over -- once again we just missed seeing the Roadrunner, it just ducked into a Coyote Bush, Then we noticed the SFBBO staff faces in the windows across the way, and Cheryl Strong opened the window and told us where the Roadrunner was (obstructed from us, but on their side of the Coyote Bush). After some repositioning, we saw it!!! It seemed kind of funny to me that we were looking at it from the levy while simultaneously the SFBBO staff was looking at it from their offices. Jan saw it grab a lizard for lunch. It then walked around a little so we had good looks at the bluish color behind the eye and its long tail. Karen DeMello (Mountain View) _______________________________________________ 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]]