[SBB] Ed Levin CP and New Chicago Marsh (8-6-06)

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Janet and I did some walking today at Ed Levin CP and out at Alviso.

 

At Ed Levin CP we walked from Spring Valley Lake over to Vista Ridge Drive and back up Calaveras Road.  Not real birdy, but of note were a pair of Warbling Vireos just at the gated entrance on Vista Ridge Drive, 3 Black-headed Grosbeaks at the group picnic area just up from Downing Road intersection and a Bullock's Oriole at Spring Valley Lake area.  A dozen or so Lazuli Buntings out numbered the Lesser Goldfinch foraging in the tall grass stalks just down the trail from Spring Valley Lake.  Three flocks of Wild Turkeys totaled about 30 individuals.  The Canada Geese were moving between Sandy Wool Lake and Spring Valley Lake and numbered about 30.  Janet found the sleeping Barn Owl at the Elm Picnic area near the playground.

 

Out at Alviso, we walked the RR tracks along New Chicago Marsh out to the junction.  We found a single Semipalmated Sandpiper on the east side of the tracks about half way out.  A single Elegant Tern was at the State & Spreckles Pond.  The other usual suspects were out on the pond near the RR junction and along the way, i.e. Wilson's Phalaropes, Snowy Plover, Greater Yellowlegs, a Lesser Yellowlegs, Semipalmated Plover, Western & Least Sandpipers and a single American White Pelican was in the marsh.  On the lawn at the San Jose-Santa Clara WPCP along Zanker Road were about a dozen Long-billed Curlew.

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Randy & Janet Little,
Milpitas, CA
chenrossii AT comcast DOT net

"I bird because the voices in my
head tell me to."

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