From south-bay-birds-bounces+south-bay-birds-archive=[[email protected]] Tue Sep 28 10:02:27 2004 Received: from www.plaidworks.com (localhost [127.0.0.1]) by plaidworks.com (8.12.9/8.12.9) with ESMTP id i8SGxOwO013389 for <[[email protected]]>; Tue, 28 Sep 2004 09:59:25 -0700 (PDT) Received: from rwcrmhc13.comcast.net (rwcrmhc13.comcast.net [204.127.198.39]) by plaidworks.com (8.12.9/8.12.9) with ESMTP id i8SGvh1c013342 for <[[email protected]]>; Tue, 28 Sep 2004 09:57:43 -0700 (PDT) Received: from 204.127.197.114 ([204.127.197.114]) by comcast.net (rwcrmhc13) with SMTP id <200409281657410150090hd3e>; Tue, 28 Sep 2004 16:57:41 +0000 Received: from [24.6.89.52] by 204.127.197.114; Tue, 28 Sep 2004 16:57:41 +0000 From: [[email protected]] To: [[email protected]] (South-Bay-Birds) Date: Tue, 28 Sep 2004 16:57:41 +0000 Message-Id: <[[email protected]]> X-Mailer: AT&T Message Center Version 1 (Sep 14 2004) X-Authenticated-Sender: anJsaXR0bGU2QGNvbWNhc3QubmV0 MIME-Version: 1.0 Content-Type: text/plain Content-Transfer-Encoding: 8bit X-Content-Filtered-By: Mailman/MimeDel 2.1.5b1 Subject: [SBB] Ed Levin CP 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]] Hi SBBers, Janet and I took an evening walk at Ed Levin CP yesterday between 6-7pm. We parked at Sandy Wool Lake and walked down to the Elm Picnic area to investigate the work going on there. The area is closed and will reopen Oct 17. This is may be good information for fall field trip leaders, so I thought I'd post it. It somewhat breezy at the time we were there, but we did see a White-crowned Sparrow and Orange-crowned Warbler. Someone had put out a large amount of cracked corn in big lawn between the lake and hang-glider parking area, which had attracted 17 Canada Geese. There was a Northern Harrier and White-tailed Kite working the hillside west of the road. Of other note and my first "county" sighting of this species was a Western Rattlesnake. Sometimes its a good thing to take a passive birder on walks while birding. I was looking up in the trees, but Janet was looking at the ground when she yelled at me, "SNAKE!!" I looked down and about 3-4 ft away was a 2.5 ft rattlesnake. It was pretty much stretched out and not coiled, but from my umpteenth encounter with rattlesnakes, this one never did rattle. A warning to others, I've never in probably over thirty+ or so sightings of rattlesnakes, had one rattle to warn me of its presence prior to me seeing it. Even if they may have seen me first. Of all places, it was at the east end of the children's playground below the Sandy Wool dam. They seem to be working that area too, removing concrete from playground pits. I'm wondering if all the work and excavation brought this snake out into the open. I've never seen rattlesnakes west of Diablo Range, actually, west of the Central Valley. I've seen the warning signs at various local parks, but I'm convinced now. -- Randy & Janet Little, Milpitas, CA [[email protected]] "I bird because the voices in my head tell me to." Question: If you don't pay your exorcist, do you get repossessed? _______________________________________________ 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]]