[SBB] San Jose CBC, 17 Dec 2006, Alviso Sector 1&2

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

Folks:

Today, 12/17/06, Jim Thomas and I covered section 1&2 of the Alviso 
Sector.  We started at the Arzino Ranch.  Working around the horse 
corrals we found 19 TRICOLORED BLACKBIRDS and 4 BROWN-HEADED COWBIRDS 
among the flocks of Brewer's and Red-wings.   A small flock of 
Canada's passing nearby included one CACKLING GOOSE.

We birded Coyote Creek below Hwy 237, mostly from the most upstream 
netlines downstream to the riparian at the second dogleg.  We found a 
BLUE-GRAY GNATCATCHER with a band at the south end of the 
revegetation areas upstream of the CCFS trailers.  This is apparently 
the same one that was banded in late October at CCFS and was last 
seen at the end of October. It was with a flock of Bushtits, 
Ruby-crowned Kinglets, and Townsend's Warblers.  Walking north along 
the creek we found three GOLDEN-CROWNED KINGLETS at various spots, 
mostly with mixed flocks of other small passerines.  Eleven VARIED 
THRUSH seemed a high count for this route, but probably not for this 
special Varied Thrush winter.

Later, in the San Jose-Santa Clara WPCP drying ponds, we had 17+ TREE 
SWALLOWS, 4+ NORTHERN ROUGH-WINGED SWALLOWS, and 3+ BARN SWALLOWS 
(immatures) over the sludge ponds.  An immature GOLDEN EAGLE was 
ranging widely from the drying ponds to the Newby Island 
dump.  Unfortunately, the drying ponds are not accessible to the public.

Bill Bousman
Santa Clara County records compiler 



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