[SBB] Stevens Creek mouth - 7/29/05

[Mike Rogers <[[email protected]]>]

All,

I took an early lunch break today 7/29/05, and headed out to the Stevens 
Creek mouth. There were 14 RED KNOTS there just after 11:30am, all 
adults in faded alternate plumage. I worked through the peeps for a 
while and eventually came across a crisply marked juvenile SEMIPALMATED 
SANDPIPER right on the mud edge of the Stevens Creek channel.  After 
several minutes of scope-filling views, this bird flushed with the peeps 
and flew out further towards the creek mouth at 11:48am. All the 
dowitchers heard out here were SHORT-BILLED DOWITCHERS.

Three pairs of BLACK SKIMMERS were on the island in the northwest corner 
of Salt Pond B1 and another pair was with the tern colony along the 
eastern edge of Salt Pond A2W, opposite the A2E/B1 dike. My high count 
of LEAST TERNS on the boardwalk in pond A2E was 82+.  Also of interest 
was repeated aerial feeding of young by TREE SWALLOWS over the Stevens 
Creek channel opposite Crittenden Marsh; whether these are the birds 
from pond A1 or not I don't know.

A quick check of the GREAT EGRET heronry along Shorebird Way showed 
several nests still active with large young.

Mike Rogers

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