Re: [SBB] Palo Alto Baylands, etc.

[Mark Bohrer <[[email protected]]>]

One early morning in late March I was photographing the last 
breeding-plumaged eared grebe at Shoreline Lake. A camera viewfinder 
provides a tunnel view but your ears still work. So when I heard the short, 
barking call almost on top of me I wondered what a night heron was doing 
away from his roosting reeds or nursery at Baylands' duck pond.

I snapped one particularly good grebe exposure and looked up just in time 
to see a green heron winging it for the far side of the lake. I've seen 
them on other occasions at Shoreline, but the secretive guys just don't 
want their pictures taken. So if anyone knows where their regular hangout 
is, please let me know.


At 01:09 PM 4/22/2005, you wrote:
> All,
>
> A quick check of the Palo Alto Baylands today turned up the expected 
> shorebirds, including SEMIPALMATED PLOVERS, WHIMBRELS, and both species of 
> DOWITCHERS. Hundreds of WESTERN SANDPIPERS and dozens of DUNLINS swarmed 
> the mudflats in fancy breeding plumage. SNOWY EGRETS and BLACK-CROWNED 
> NIGHT-HERONS have young in their nests at the duck pond, whereas a GREAT 
> EGRET was still incubating.
>
> Lingering ducks at the duck pond included 6 GREATER SCAUP and a single 
> female-plumaged COMMON GOLDENEYE (likely an immature male based on the 
> still all-black bill). Lingering gulls included WESTERN and 
> GLAUCOUS-WINGED (mostly 1st-summer birds) and an injured adult HERRING 
> GULL. Across the road at the old yacht harbor a single female-plumaged 
> CANVASBACK was present. A couple of GOLDEN-CROWNED SPARROWS were still 
> sneaking handouts from the people feeding the ducks.
>
> A quick stop at Geng Road added CEDAR WAXWINGS, both species of ORIOLES, 
> and a singing WILSON'S WARBLER.
>
> A quick check of the Mountain View Forebay, Charleston Slough, and Adobe 
> Creek from near the pumphouse added 1+ TREE SWALLOW, a GREEN HERON, a 
> COMMON MOORHEN, 3 SEMIPALMATED PLOVERS, a singing SAVANNAH SPARROW, and a 
> WHITE-CROWNED SPARROW.
>
> Over 70 species in a little over an hour - things are ripe for a Big Day!
>
> Mike Rogers

Mark Bohrer
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