[SBB] Sunnyvale treatment plant..

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

The sun was out, so I told work to pretend I didn't exist, and took  
the camera out to the water plant this afternoon. Birding was pretty  
light (cool, clear, but with a firm and steady wind), not much to see  
or report on -- mostly coots, moorhens and ruddys. Also seen were  
some grebes (one pie-billed, others I'm still looking at the photos),  
a double-crested cormorant, egrets, one night heron. I"ll upload  
photos once I"m done going over them.

I did upload a couple of photos of birds I wanted to ask about.

There was a small flock of gulls on one of the ponds, along with some  
coots. It was very skittish, didn't want anyone near it. I've got a  
decent photo here:

http://www.flickr.com/photos/chuqui/82379361/

and the best I can think is that they were bonaparte's, but I'm  
really uncomfortable with that ID.

The other bird is another of those wee brown things. As I was leaving  
in failing light (headed towards five), I heard it vocalizing in the  
rushes, so I snapped off a shot just before it flew off. I never  
actually got a good visual on it live, but the photo's decent:

http://www.flickr.com/photos/chuqui/82379362/

I just am befuddled by these small things right now, though, so I  
won't even guess....


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

The first rule of holes: If you are in one, stop digging.



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