[SBB] S.C. Co. Bird List - June 2005

["Kendric C. Smith" <[[email protected]]>]

Bill Bousman writes:
    The composite list increased by eight species in June to 250. So 
here we are, halfway through the year, and a long way to go.

    We finished up our really regular birds this month. The first of 
the WILSON'S PHALAROPES (a 2) were found on 23 Jun, while an adult 
BROWN PELICAN (a 3) was found on Shoreline Lake on 11 Jun.

    Among the 4's, a spring WILLOW FLYCATCHER was found along Stevens 
Creek near La Avenida on 4 Jun. They are much rarer in spring than in 
fall. A PURPLE MARTIN was seen over Morgan Hill on 13 Jun. The first 
LEAST TERNS of the seasons showed up at Salt Pond A2E on 30 Jun.

    We had two 5's this month. A flock of migrating BLACK SWIFTS were 
seen over Monte Bello OSP on 14 Jun. A single LITTLE BLUE HERON was 
seen along Artesian Slough on 24 Jun.

    Although heard only, the best bird of the month was undoubtedly a 
HOODED WARBLER northeast of Page Mill and Skyline on 2 Jun. Except 
for one wintering bird, our Hooded Warblers are all misoriented 
spring migrants that show up in the last week of May or the first 
week in June.

    There are only nine 4's that we haven't seen by the end of June: 
Mountain Quail, Red-throated Loon, Semipalmated Sandpiper (seen in 
July), Baird's, Pectoral, and Stilt sandpipers, Common Tern, 
MacGillivray's Warbler, and Black-chinned Sparrow. Neither the quail 
nor the sparrow seem likely now, but we can try for the others this 
fall.


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Kendric C. Smith, Ph.D.
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