[SBB] Coyote Creek Field Station, Salt Pond A12

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All,
 
This morning Frank Vanslager and were unable to re-find the Blue Grosbeak  
seen yesterday by Mike Rogers near the CCFS trailer.  The first bird  we did see 
was a male HAIRY WOODPECKER on some dead snags near Coyote  Creek that was 
chasing a DOWNY WOODPECKER.  TREE SWALLOWS ultimately  chased off both 
Woodpeckers.  The Hairy Woodpecker was later seen near the  top of a power pole near 
the creek (bird was a nicely marked western  HAWO).  At mist net 9330 we had a 
male BLACK-CHINNED HUMMINGBIRD, a bit  further upstream a couple calling 
SWAINSON'S THRUSHES and at the southern end of  the creek-side mist nets a WARBLING 
VIREO.  No warblers :-(  The  most notable bird in the CCFS ponds were two 
male NORTHERN PINTAIL.   Later in Salt Pond A12, north of the Alviso Marina 
parking lot, we  had 20 - 30 SURF SCOTERS.  This seems awfully far east, inside the 
 bay, for this species.  Even more unusual were several essentially all  
black (only the slightest hint of white on the back of the head) first  winter 
males with nicely marked, multicolored bills (including the black circle  inside 
the white portion of the yellow-orange bill).  Stops at New Chicago  Marsh, 
the Environmental Education Center and Arzino Ranch were for the  exercise only.
 
Take care,
Bob Reiling     
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