From south-bay-birds-bounces+south-bay-birds-archive=[[email protected]] Sat Feb 12 23:26:01 2005 Received: from www.plaidworks.com (localhost [127.0.0.1]) by plaidworks.com (8.12.9/8.12.9) with ESMTP id j1D7NbGn019835 for <[[email protected]]>; Sat, 12 Feb 2005 23:23:37 -0800 (PST) Received: from pop-a065d10.pas.sa.earthlink.net (pop-a065d10.pas.sa.earthlink.net [207.217.121.251]) by plaidworks.com (8.12.9/8.12.9) with ESMTP id j1D4cgAf015863 for <[[email protected]]>; Sat, 12 Feb 2005 20:38:47 -0800 (PST) Received: from user-38lc1ft.dialup.mindspring.com ([209.86.5.253]) by pop-a065d10.pas.sa.earthlink.net with esmtp (Exim 3.33 #1) id 1D0BWp-0004b8-00; Sat, 12 Feb 2005 20:38:40 -0800 Mime-Version: 1.0 (Apple Message framework v619) To: South Bay Birders <[[email protected]]>, San Mateo birds list <[[email protected]]> Message-Id: <[[email protected]]> From: Les Chibana <[[email protected]]> Date: Sat, 12 Feb 2005 20:39:25 -0800 X-Mailer: Apple Mail (2.619) Content-Type: text/plain; charset=US-ASCII; format=flowed Content-Transfer-Encoding: 7bit X-Content-Filtered-By: Mailman/MimeDel 2.1.5b1 Cc: Subject: [SBB] Duck Rally, Peninsula-South Bay 2/12/05 X-BeenThere: [[email protected]] X-Mailman-Version: 2.1.5b1 Precedence: list List-Id: South Bay Birding List-Unsubscribe: , List-Post: List-Help: List-Subscribe: , Sender: south-bay-birds-bounces+south-bay-birds-archive=[[email protected]] Errors-To: south-bay-birds-bounces+south-bay-birds-archive=[[email protected]] Quacks, [sorry for your duplicates from my crossposting to these two lists] Today, my Palo Alto Baylands birding class did a duck rally, in which we tried to find as many duck species as we could without pulling out all of the stops (because we have another trip tomorrow). We ended up with 19 duck and 2 goose species. We started at Coyote Point and worked our way down the edge of the Bay to Charleston Slough, then went to Oka Ponds. We did saw a male WHITE-WINGED SCOTER snoozing near the trail just north of the San Mateo Bridge. We saw both COMMON and RED-BREASTED MERGANSERS at Leo Ryan Park's lagoon, and more Red-breasted off Mindanao Dr. We saw single male BLUE-WINGED TEAL at the Radio Rd. pond and at Adobe Creek next to Charleston Slough, thanks to teal-eyed Sue Cossins. At the PA golf course pond by Geng Rd., we saw a SNOW GOOSE with the CANADA GOOSE. We did see all of the common species, but missed finding any of the Greater White-fronted Geese that have been in the South Bay, Cackling Geese (we didn't try for the resident[?] at Vasona), Ross's Goose (Dave Weber's at Alviso), Wood Ducks (ran out of time to get to Almaden Res.), Eurasian Wigeon, Redhead (both seen recently at salt pond A2W Mtn. View), Harlequin Duck (at Coyote Point and the west end of the San Mateo Bridge), Long-tailed Duck (recently seen at the San Mateo Bridge), Black Scoter, Barrow's Goldeneye, and Hooded Mergansers (like Ron Thorn's at Coyote Pt., at the Palo Alto golf course pond near Geng Rd., and at Oka Ponds in Los Gatos). At Oka Ponds, we saw a pair of RING-NECKED DUCKS in which the male's reddish neck ring was actually visible. The GREEN-WINGED TEAL males at Adobe Creek were amorously courting a female, doing a similar body-posturing and squeaking that I've seen male Common Goldeneye and Gadwall do; but this was a first for me to see the Green-winged Teal doing this. While we saw more than 20 waterfowl species and not just duck species, it was fun trying. Les --- Les Chibana BirdNUTZ(tm) - Ornigasmic Birding Palo Alto Baylands Birding Classes em <[[email protected]]> web ph 650-949-4335 fx 650-949-4137 snailmail: SR2 Box 335, La Honda CA 94020 _______________________________________________ Do not post admin requests to the list. They will be ignored. south-bay-birds mailing list ([[email protected]]) Help/Unsubscribe/Update your Subscription: http://www.plaidworks.com/mailman/options/south-bay-birds/south-bay-birds-archive%40plaidworks.com This email sent to [[email protected]]