[SBB] S.C. Co. Bird List, Sept. 2005

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

Sorry for the delay in posting, but poor me, I have been in Southern 
Australia for the last 3 weeks on a birding trip with Field Guides. 
Great trip.
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Bill Bousman Writes:
The passage of September migrants, especially a few rarities 
including a first county record, has boosted the composite list by 10 
species to 272.  Nice work!

The first PECTORAL SANDPIPER of the fall showed up at Charleson 
Slough on 4 Sep.  This was the only 4 found in September.

We had five 5s for September, which is a good count.  An early 
BLACKPOLL WARBLER at the Alviso EEC on 4 Sep was the first 5 found. 
Then, 24 Sep was an especially good day.  A dark morph juvenile 
PARASITIC JAEGER was found on closed refuge ponds in Alviso and 
nearby was an ELEGANT TERN.  In Mountain View the same day, an 
immature AMERICAN REDSTART was found in an apartment complex.  The 5s 
were wrapped up for September with a tail-less BREWER'S SPARROW found 
along the Guadalupe River below Blossom Hill Road on 30 Sep.

September is the time for 6s, and were were not disappointed.  On 3 
Sep, not far apart, a WANDERING TATTLER and a BLACK TURNSTONE were 
found on the rip-rap on the bay side of the outer Palo Alto Flood 
Control Basin,  On 5 Sep, a juvenile BUFF-BREASTED SANDPIPER was 
found on the Salt Pond A16 levee in Alviso.  The best of the 6s, 
however, was a PHILADELPHIA VIREO photographed on 24 Sep along 
Stevens Creek below La Avenida.  This vireo is the first found in the 
county.

With two more new birds already in October, we are at 274 (and 
another new species) and have already beat out the high count of 273 
in 2003.  So it looks like our chances are good for at least a few 
more birds before the end of the year, but October through December 
can be a surprising struggle.


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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Stanford, CA  94305-1041
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