[SBB] Sunnyvale Water Treatment Facility

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All,
 
This morning Frank Vanslager and I first checked out the Water treatment  
Ponds and Salt Pond A4 from the hill west of the parking lot.  Nothing  special 
was seen except that there were a large number of Egrets in  Salt Pond A5 
(north of Guadalupe Slough).  A few GREAT BLUE HERONS  were also seen but there was 
nothing resembling a Little Blue Heron :-(   Later we tried viewing this pond 
from the northern edge of the Water Treatment  Ponds but still no joy 
(nothing in Guadalupe Slough either).  The Lockheed  Martin marsh nearest the hill 
had 2-3 LESSER YELLOWLEGS (in with 8-10 GREATER  YELLOWLEGS), 4-5 juvenile 
RING-NECKED PHEASANTS (one clearly a male, an  unseen adult male called from the 
marsh), several Dowitchers (all those  ID'd being LONG-BILLED and 3-4 juvenile 
BLACK-CROWNED NIGHT HERONS (many  juveniles and a couple adults were seen 
throughout the morning).  At least  four GREEN HERON were in the channel at the 
base of the hill and a couple  others were along the channel behind Lockheed 
Martin.  Again all  of the Dowitchers ID'd of the 30-40 seen were Long-billed.  A  
CASPIAN TERN was flying over the channel(s) on the western edge of Salt  Pond 
A4.  SEMIPALMATED PLOVERS were at three to  four different sites (mostly in 
the Lockheed Martin marshes and one  pair on the northern edge of the large 
Water Treatment Pond). 
 
Take care,
Bob Reiling
   
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