[SBB] New Chicago Marsh

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

Folks:

Yesterday morning, 8/4/06, I walked out the RR tracks to the track 
junction at New Chicago Marsh and returned.  There are a lot of 
ardeids foraging in the channels in the main marsh, I counted 123 
SNOWY EGRETS.  One SNOWY PLOVER was in the track junction pond (if I 
can call the pond SE of the junction by that name) and 7 more were in 
the dried-out pond N of Alviso Marina CP.  I saw four LESSER 
YELLOWLEGS at various places in the marsh.  Most of the 274 WILSON'S 
PHALAROPES were in the track junction pond; 20 RED-NECKED PHALAROPES 
were in various spots.  A BURROWING OWL was N of the entrance road.

I had thought that juvenile peeps would be showing up by now, but I 
failed to find any, or any juvenile phalaropes, for that 
matter.  Usually by mid-July we are once again seeing large flocks 
(100 or more birds) of Am. White Pelicans in the Alviso area, but 
I've not noted any yet.



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