From south-bay-birds-bounces+south-bay-birds-archive=[[email protected]] Thu Sep 30 13:39:29 2004 Received: from www.plaidworks.com (localhost [127.0.0.1]) by plaidworks.com (8.12.9/8.12.9) with ESMTP id i8UKaijh002766 for <[[email protected]]>; Thu, 30 Sep 2004 13:36:45 -0700 (PDT) Received: from hotmail.com (bay4-dav12.bay4.hotmail.com [65.54.170.116]) by plaidworks.com (8.12.9/8.12.9) with ESMTP id i8UKa5VC002724 for <[[email protected]]>; Thu, 30 Sep 2004 13:36:05 -0700 (PDT) Received: from mail pickup service by hotmail.com with Microsoft SMTPSVC; Thu, 30 Sep 2004 13:36:02 -0700 Received: from 4.182.3.186 by BAY4-DAV12.phx.gbl with DAV; Thu, 30 Sep 2004 20:35:35 +0000 X-Originating-IP: [4.182.3.186] X-Originating-Email: [[[email protected]]] X-Sender: [[email protected]] From: "LINDA ADAMS" <[[email protected]]> To: "south-bay-birds" <[[email protected]]> Date: Thu, 30 Sep 2004 13:35:31 -0700 MIME-Version: 1.0 X-Priority: 3 X-MSMail-Priority: Normal X-Mailer: MSN 9 Seal-Send-Time: Thu, 30 Sep 2004 13:35:31 -0700 X-MimeOLE: Produced By MSN MimeOLE V9.10.0006.2205 Message-ID: <[[email protected]]> X-OriginalArrivalTime: 30 Sep 2004 20:36:02.0303 (UTC) FILETIME=[19E520F0:01C4A72D] Content-Type: text/plain; charset="iso-8859-1" X-Content-Filtered-By: Mailman/MimeDel 2.1.5b1 Subject: [SBB] Swallows and others in San Martin 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]] Content-Transfer-Encoding: 8bit X-MIME-Autoconverted: from quoted-printable to 8bit by plaidworks.com id i8UKaijh002766 Hello SBBers, Today, 30 September at 12 noon there were at least 100 Cliff Swallows flying over each of the two Ground Water Reclamation Ponds on Church Avenue in San Martin. There were also 20 or more Violet-green Swallows feeding amongst them. I scoped both species for positive identification. I could not detect or identify any other swallow species other than the two. The Cliffs were feeding close to the water and the Violet-greens were swooping higher, along the edges of the ponds. They may have come in off the coast because of weather conditions and luckily, the ponds happened to have water in them this particular year. I also noted some blackbirds on the observation bridge. One had yellowish wing patches, with no other color visible until it extended its wings, revealing a little red at the top of the wing patch. This bird did not look like the Red-winged Blackbirds do this time of year, so I am thinking that this might be a Tri-colored Blackbird. I am much better at identifying swallows and not too good with less common types of blackbirds. Does this seem likely this time of year? Back home on Church Avenue and DePaul Circle in San Martin, the White-crowned Sparrows have increased from one on the 23rd, to two on the 25th, and now, at least half a dozen. Linda Adams _______________________________________________ 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]]