From south-bay-birds-bounces+south-bay-birds-archive=[[email protected]] Thu Sep 23 12:52:22 2004 Received: from www.plaidworks.com (localhost [127.0.0.1]) by plaidworks.com (8.12.9/8.12.9) with ESMTP id i8NJnvwQ013728 for <[[email protected]]>; Thu, 23 Sep 2004 12:49:57 -0700 (PDT) Received: from hawk.mail.pas.earthlink.net (hawk.mail.pas.earthlink.net [207.217.120.22]) by plaidworks.com (8.12.9/8.12.9) with ESMTP id i8NJmL1c013683 for <[[email protected]]>; Thu, 23 Sep 2004 12:48:22 -0700 (PDT) Received: from user-vcauopp.dsl.mindspring.com ([216.175.99.57] helo=pavilion.earthlink.net) by hawk.mail.pas.earthlink.net with esmtp (Exim 3.33 #1) id 1CAZZk-0003EJ-00 for [[email protected]]; Thu, 23 Sep 2004 12:48:20 -0700 Message-Id: <[[email protected]]> X-Mailer: QUALCOMM Windows Eudora Version 5.2.1 Date: Thu, 23 Sep 2004 12:59:35 -0700 To: [[email protected]] From: Bill Bousman <[[email protected]]> Mime-Version: 1.0 Content-Type: text/plain; charset="us-ascii"; format=flowed Subject: [SBB] Shoreline Lake 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]] Folks: No Pelagic Cormorant, sigh. In one of my recent visits to Shoreline Lake, I had a long talk with a grounds keeper who is quite knowledgeable about his local patch. As a number of us have noted, there seem to be a lot of surface fish lately. He commented that Shoreline put in two solar-powered aerators about six months ago (I wondered what those things were) and these have really been successful in avoiding stratification in the lake and have prevented the development of serious anoxia as in previous years. He felt that the aerators were the reason there were so many more small fish (he called them anchovies). So maybe we'll see more piscivorus birds this winter. By the way, he says if you go over to the lake outlet on Permanente Creek you will find dozens of bat rays feeding on the small fish that leave the lake. I'll have to do that. Yesterday, 9/22/04, on one of my visits, I watched two Ring-bills in succession pick up a 4 inch fish--that's new for me. There was still an adult and immature CASPIAN TERN around, and in the afternoon I counted eight BROWN PELICANS, of which one was adult. A basic SPOTTED SANDPIPER was on the lake shore in the morning. Bill Bousman Santa Clara County records compiler _______________________________________________ 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]]