[SBB] Last Two Days

[Bill Bousman <[[email protected]]>]

Folks:

Yesterday, 3/16/06, I stopped by a few places, from Ed Levin to Coyote 
Reservoir, hoping to see some of the recent good birds.  I stopped first at 
the Oka percolation ponds and saw two female-plumaged HOODED MERGANSERS 
near the gate in pond #6.

My next stop was the Coyote Creek GC, where I saw a pair of HOODED 
MERGANSERS in one of the ponds next to the entrance road.  A GREATER 
WHITE-FRONTED GOOSE was grazing with the Canadas.  Dumpster diving were 
starlings, red-wings, and Brewer's but no grackles.

Driving up Roop Road to Coyote Reservoir, there was a female WOOD DUCK in 
the first pond, and four more just past the Mendoza Ranch turn off.  I 
counted eight more on the reservoir.  At the campground I could not find 
the local White-throated Sparrow with the zonos, but I did find a nice 
adult white-striped WHITE-THROATED SPARROW in the brush along the parking 
area at the dam, which Bob and Frank found earlier.  A pair of COMMON 
MERGANSERS were above the dam and a second pair were below in the creek.  A 
ROCK WREN was flycatching in the boulders on the reservoir side.

At Ed Levin, I found only Anna's Hummingbirds in the time I was there.

Today, 3/17/06, I stopped by the Palo Alto Baylands (low tide), Shoreline 
Lake, and Salt Pond A1, hoping that yesterday's Long-tailed Ducks were not 
long gone--no luck there.  Two EURASIAN WIGEON continue in the estuary at 
the Baylands, not far from the I.C. parking.  At Shoreline Lake I saw both 
the male and female BARROW'S GOLDENEYE and a female-plumaged RED-BREASTED 
MERGANSER.  On the drive in, two BURROWING OWLS were in the bayside 
mound.  Mostly just ruddies and a few scaup on A1.

Bill Bousman
Santa Clara County records compiler 


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