[SBB] More Red Phalaropes (Salt Pond A1)

[Bill Bousman <[[email protected]]>]

Folks:

This morning, 12/26/05, I visited Shoreline Lake, Salt Pond A1, the Palo 
Alto FCB, and the Duck Pond to see if anything was affected by the heavy 
rain earlier this morning.  Some of the areas I visited I also covered a 
week ago on the Palo Alto CBC.  I didn't notice any significant changes in 
the number of birds at Shoreline Lake or in Salt Pond A1.  Like others this 
morning, I did find some RED PHALAROPES: two that set down on Salt Pond A1 
and then took off flying southeast (towards Sunnyvale and Alviso).  There 
were also four BROWN PELICANS there, two adults and two immatures, that 
were foraging over A1, then gained altitude and eventually flew south.  On 
Shoreline Lake I saw the male and two female BARROW'S GOLDENEYES and an 
immature was there as well, but asleep.  (In the last week these birds have 
been very close to shore in the northwest corner.  You can take the bike 
path that goes through the landscaped areas on the north shore and walk 
down to the orange construction fence.  The birds are readily visible in 
the morning without a scope.)  Two BEWICK'S WRENS were on the north shore 
of Shoreline Lake, both singing identical songs, apparently on adjacent 
territories.  Their expansion to the bay edge is a fairly recent 
phenomenon.  Two BURROWING OWLS were on the mound across from Michael's 
Restaurant at Shoreline.

Bill Bousman
Santa Clara County records compiler 


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