From south-bay-birds-bounces+south-bay-birds-archive=[[email protected]] Wed Jan 12 16:11:32 2005 Received: from www.plaidworks.com (localhost [127.0.0.1]) by plaidworks.com (8.12.9/8.12.9) with ESMTP id j0D0A2Gq004382 for <[[email protected]]>; Wed, 12 Jan 2005 16:10:02 -0800 (PST) Received: from smtp3.Stanford.EDU (smtp3.stanford.edu [171.67.16.138]) by plaidworks.com (8.12.9/8.12.9) with ESMTP id j0D06oAf004313 for <[[email protected]]>; Wed, 12 Jan 2005 16:06:50 -0800 (PST) Received: from [10.0.1.2] (KSmith-pbdsl2.Stanford.EDU [171.66.208.19]) by smtp3.Stanford.EDU (8.12.11/8.12.11) with ESMTP id j0D06n5B014104 for <[[email protected]]>; Wed, 12 Jan 2005 16:06:49 -0800 Mime-Version: 1.0 X-Sender: [[email protected]] Message-Id: Date: Wed, 12 Jan 2005 16:06:47 -0800 To: [[email protected]] From: "Kendric C. Smith" <[[email protected]]> Content-Type: text/plain; charset="us-ascii" ; format="flowed" X-Content-Filtered-By: Mailman/MimeDel 2.1.5b1 Subject: [SBB] S.C. Co. Jan 1 Bird List 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]] Bill Bousman writes: Many folks have provided their New Year's Day lists and, although I'm sure there are some omissions and e-mails I've overlooked, the total is 167 species. This easily beats last year's 129, probably because of a soaking rain in the morning, but it also beats out 2003, where the high was 157. Most of these records were of multiple observations (m. ob.), that is 138 of the 167. The rest were seen by individuals or teams in the field. What were the most common species found? Twelve lists had Black Phoebe and Golden-crowned Sparrow--clearly the champeen birds of Santa Clara County! Close seconds were those on eleven lists: Canada Goose, Ruddy Duck, Pied-billed Grebe, Double-crested Cormorant, Great Egret, Red-tailed Hawk, Acorn Woodpecker, Ruby-crowned Kinglet, American Robin, California Towhee, and White-crowned Sparrow. We had 13 "4's", most of which were holdover or stakeout birds from December: GREATER WHITE-FRONTED GOOSE, SNOW GOOSE, EURASIAN WIGEON, BLUE-WINGED TEAL, BARROW'S GOLDENEYE, OSPREY, FERRUGINOUS HAWK, SANDERLING, BLACK SKIMMER, SHORT-EARED OWL, RED-BREASTED NUTHATCH, and PYGMY NUTHATCH. The Sanderling, Short-eared Owl, Red-breasted and Pygmy Nuthatches were apparently new birds. We had only one "5", a RED PHALAROPE at Shoreline Lake. This was a bird not previously found in 2004 and was unique for New Year's Day. Those looking for it on 2 Jan were unsuccessful. Our one "6" for New Year's Day was the continuing PELAGIC CORMORANT at Shoreline Lake. So, we are off again to the races. What do we have to look forward to? There are six "1's" to get yet: Short-billed Dowitcher, Cliff and Barn Swallow, Wilson's Warbler, Black-headed Grosbeak, and Bullock's Oriole. Most are summer residents that shouldn't show up yet, but my informal count shows we have two of these already. We have 17 "2's" and 14 "3's" to go and many of these are summer birds, but quite of few of the others have already been picked off by early January. We'll have to wait until the end of the month to see how things are going. The complete list can be found at: South Bay Birders Unlimited (SBBU) http://www.stanford.edu/~kendric/birds/ -- Kendric C. Smith, Ph.D. 927 Mears Court Stanford, CA 94305-1041 (650) 493-7210 (voice or fax) [[email protected]] http://www.stanford.edu/~kendric/ _______________________________________________ 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]]