From south-bay-birds-bounces+south-bay-birds-archive=[[email protected]] Sun Sep 26 15:04:39 2004 Received: from www.plaidworks.com (localhost [127.0.0.1]) by plaidworks.com (8.12.9/8.12.9) with ESMTP id i8QM1kwP010914 for <[[email protected]]>; Sun, 26 Sep 2004 15:01:46 -0700 (PDT) Received: from sccrmhc12.comcast.net (sccrmhc12.comcast.net [204.127.202.56]) by plaidworks.com (8.12.9/8.12.9) with ESMTP id i8QM0n1c010874 for <[[email protected]]>; Sun, 26 Sep 2004 15:00:49 -0700 (PDT) Received: from 204.127.205.146 ([204.127.205.146]) by comcast.net (sccrmhc12) with SMTP id <2004092622004801200fo9t5e>; Sun, 26 Sep 2004 22:00:48 +0000 Received: from [67.169.121.5] by 204.127.205.146; Sun, 26 Sep 2004 22:00:47 +0000 From: [[email protected]] To: [[email protected]] (south-bay-birds) Date: Sun, 26 Sep 2004 22:00:47 +0000 Message-Id: <[[email protected]]> X-Mailer: AT&T Message Center Version 1 (Jul 16 2004) X-Authenticated-Sender: bS5tLnJvZ2Vyc0Bjb21jYXN0Lm5ldA== MIME-Version: 1.0 Content-Type: text/plain Content-Transfer-Encoding: 8bit X-Content-Filtered-By: Mailman/MimeDel 2.1.5b1 Cc: [[email protected]] Subject: [SBB] Brewer's Sparrow at Hunting Hollow 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, This morning 9/26/04, I assisted Gina Barton with bird censusing along Coyote Creek between the end of Gilroy Hot Springs Road and the turnoff to Coyote Lake. In general the area was dried out and pretty quiet. The birdiest spot was near the Hunting Hollow parking area for Henry Coe State Park, about a half mile east of the junction with Canada Road. A small sparrow that flew up from the west side of the road with some GOLDEN-CROWNED SPARROWS turned out to be a BREWER'S SPARROW. It flew to the dry creek bed that passes under the bridge here (milepost 0475) and foraged out in the open between the scattered bushes, providing great views. This is truly a remarkable location for this vagrant, as the interior of the Diablo Range is hardly known as a fall vagrant trap! Other birds of note seen this morning included 1 WESTERN WOOD-PEWEE (quite late for a bird at a breeding location), 2 VIOLET-GREEN SWALLOWS, 1 RUBY-CROWNED KINGLET, 1 HERMIT THRUSH, 1 YELLOW-RUMPED WARBLER, 1 WILSON'S WARBLER, 1 WESTERN TANAGER, and 2 FOX SPARROWS. Highlights from yesterday's Varied Twitchers guided birdathon included an immature GOLDEN EAGLE at Arzino Ranch, an immature PEREGRINE FALCON at CCFS, an immature PRAIRIE FALCON hunting over New Chicago Marsh and perched on one of the towers along the EEC entrance road, 2 PECTORAL SANDPIPERS in the pool south of the EEC entrance road and east of the railroad tracks, both male RUFFS in the pond at State and Spreckles in Alviso, a lingering CASPIAN TERN along Adobe Creek opposite Charleston Slough, the continuing GREATER ROADRUNNER at the Alviso Marina parking lot, a singing WESTERN WOOD-PEWEE at CCFS, WILLOW FLYCATCHERS in Alviso Slough by SFBBO, at the EEC, and two at CCFS (one being chased by the WWPE), a lingering CLIFF SWALLOW over the slough near the EEC, CEDAR WAXWINGS at the EEC (2) and CCFS (2), 3 WESTERN TANAGERS in the eucalyptus by the trailer at CCFS, and a BLACK-HEADED GROSBEAK in the bushes by the trailer (none banded on this day). We had 107 species by 2:15pm. 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]]