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All,

Curious as to what our Big Day group might have missed among the big duck flock on Salt Pond A10 in Alviso (heat haze prevented distant identification yesterday), I made a quick bike trip out to that pond over my lunch break today 10/7/05. There were 380+ GREATER SCAUP (no Lesser Scaup noted), a single pair of REDHEAD, and both CLARK'S and WESTERN GREBES, all birds we did see yesterday. Still no sign of Bufflehead, Canvasback, or Red-breasted Merganser, all birds we did not find. Surprising so close to the bay was a DARK-EYED JUNCO with a WHITE-CROWNED SPARROW flock at the corner of Gold Street and Elizabeth Street in Alviso.

On the way back to work I made a quick stop at the Sunnyvale Water Pollution Control Plant to check the tern flock there. Yesterday we saw 400+ Forster's Terns foraging over and roosting on pond A4, but were unable to carefully search through the entire flock for rare terns. Today, the flock was roosting on the east dike of the east pond (north of the radar dish). The lighting was excellent and I was able to count 505+ FORSTER'S TERNS without any other tern species in the group (there were two BONAPARTE'S GULLS, which were very scarce yesterday, with our only four being seen at this same location). Hard to believe that a group this big didn't have a Common Tern in it! There were still 12 RED-NECKED PHALAROPES on the west pond.

Mike Rogers
Sunnyvale
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