[SBB] Palo Alto Baylands, Friday.

[Chuq Von Rospach <[[email protected]]>]

Took time off Friday to get outside, and ended up off at the Palo  
Alto Baylands. The set of photos from the trip are here: http:// 
www.flickr.com/photos/chuqui/sets/72057594071114716/" (blog on this  
with more details here: http://chuqui.typepad.com/teal_sunglasses/ 
2006/02/palo_alto_bayla.html).

Seen were American Avocets, black-necked stilts, the pied-billed  
grebe, Northern shoveler, and a green-winged teal, Canada Geese,  
greater scaup, ruddy duck, a very habituated Ring-Necked pheasant  
(who was as curious about me as I was about him -- the only thing he  
preferred to hide from were the dogs -- and it was fascinating to see  
him disappear into the weeds when one came near) -- and the  
pheasant's four girlfriends; we were visited repeatedly by a Northern  
Harrier, and a merlin made a dramatic visit, appearing out of nowhere  
and skimming the mudflats at about 5' and then landing on light pole  
for easy pictures... Also one great egret and the rare but not  
photgenic Mallard Duck and Coot.

unidentified birds: a flycatcher of some sort, I think a Phoebe, but  
I'm just not sure; a shorebird I think is a marbled godwit, but  
again, I'm not comfortable labelling the photo with it (yet); and the  
required Little Brown Bird, which might be a chipping sparrow.



-- 
Chuq Von Rospach, Architech
[[email protected]] -- http://chuqui.typepad.com/

Stress is when you wake up screaming and you realize you haven't  
fallen asleep yet.



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