From south-bay-birds-bounces+south-bay-birds-archive=[[email protected]] Tue Jan 4 15:39:59 2005 Received: from www.plaidworks.com (localhost [127.0.0.1]) by plaidworks.com (8.12.9/8.12.9) with ESMTP id j04NcPGn021578 for <[[email protected]]>; Tue, 4 Jan 2005 15:38:26 -0800 (PST) Received: from mailgate02.slac.stanford.edu (mailgate02.slac.stanford.edu [134.79.18.92]) by plaidworks.com (8.12.9/8.12.9) with ESMTP id j04NahAf021530 for <[[email protected]]>; Tue, 4 Jan 2005 15:36:43 -0800 (PST) Received: from flora02.slac.stanford.edu (flora02.slac.stanford.edu [134.79.16.57]) by mailgate02.slac.stanford.edu (8.12.11/8.12.11) with ESMTP id j04Nag9N020172 for <[[email protected]]>; Tue, 4 Jan 2005 15:36:42 -0800 (PST) (envelope-from [[email protected]]) Received: from localhost (eisner@localhost) by flora02.slac.stanford.edu (8.12.10+Sun/8.12.5/Submit-solaris) with ESMTP id j04NagPG001533 for <[[email protected]]>; Tue, 4 Jan 2005 15:36:42 -0800 (PST) X-Authentication-Warning: flora02.slac.stanford.edu: eisner owned process doing -bs Date: Tue, 4 Jan 2005 15:36:41 -0800 (PST) From: Al Eisner <[[email protected]]> To: [[email protected]] Message-ID: <[[email protected]]> MIME-Version: 1.0 Content-Type: TEXT/PLAIN; charset=US-ASCII Subject: [SBB] 2005 start, and Shoreline Park 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]] I didn't get to Santa Clara County until late on Jan. 3, driving back from Santa Barbara. I made a few brief south-county stops, failing to look at birds along 101 or Monterey Highway, and was thus rewarded with a pretty neat first county year-bird: a singing CALIFORNIA THRASHER seen north of the entrance roads to Ogier Ponds/Skypark. I only checked the roadside pond, but did have a flyover OSPREY, which paused to circle and hover for a half minute before continuing north. At Richmond and Santa Teresa, I ran into Dean Manley and Jack Cole, but not the Ferruginous Hawk (which they also hadn't seen). We moved on to the Calero boat ramp, but things were rather dull, with no Bald Eagle appearance. Jack and I checked along the park entrance road, seeing a single WILD TURKEY. The GREATER WHITE-FRONTED GOOSE which Jack had seen earlier was still along Bailey Road, and there were two AMERICAN WHITE PELICANS at Parkway Lakes. Late morning today (Jan. 4) I spent some time at the east end of Mountainview Shoreline Lake. I saw the three BARROW'S GOLDENEYEs (the male and two females, together), but not the Pelagic Cormorant. The ducks on A1 were very far out, and hard to check. But A2W had large numbers of ducks well within viewing distance. The flocks were mostly Scaup (no, I didn't see a male Tufted Duck among them), Ruddy and especially AMERICAN WIGEON. There were a minimum of 10 REDHEADs in the close side of the flock (among Scaup). And I managed to pick out 2 male EURASIAN WIGEON among the Americans; there could easily be more. Al Eisner _______________________________________________ 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]]