[SBB] S.C. Co. Bird List - May

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

Bill Bousman writes:
I've updated two missed records from April.  A COMMON POORWILL was 
heard at Almaden-Quicksilver CP on 16 Apr and a SWAINSON'S THRUSH was 
banded at the Coyote Creek Field Station on 24 Apr.  This brings the 
April Composite List up to 235.

Seven species were added in May to bring the Composite List up to 242.

Three 4's were found in May.  On 2 May a male  BLUE GROSBEAK was seen 
along Coyote Creek below Hwy 237 and on the same day, BLACK-CHINNED 
HUMMINGBIRDS were seen along Guadalupe Rvier below Curtner (a nest 
was found there the next week).  The final 4 was a WHITE-FACED IBIS 
coming to roost in the Palo Alto FCB on 17 May.  Probably the same 
bird was seen at the Mountain View Forebay and two birds were there 
through early June and enjoyed by many.

The first of the four 5's was a RUDDY TURNSTONE in a closed salt pond 
near Alviso on 1 May.  A pair of CASSIN'S KINGBIRDS were found on 
private property off Hwy 152 southeast of Gilroy on 11 May.  It 
appears that this pair nested successfully at this location.  A late 
migrant SWAINSON'S HAWK making lazy cicles in the sky over the 
Ulistac Natural Area on 18 May was treat.  A vagrant male 
ROSE-BREASTED GROSBEAK showed up at Hidden Villa on 26 May to filch 
cherries from the garden there.

Singles 2's and 3's left, Wilson's Phalarope and Brown Pelican, 
respectively, have already been found in June.  Late June may have a 
few new shorebirds, but more likely we will have to wait until July 
for the first big influx.


The complete list can be found at:
South Bay Birders Unlimited (SBBU)
http://www.stanford.edu/~kendric/birds/

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Kendric C. Smith, Ph.D.
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