[SBB] Bayside birds

["Steve and Heather Rottenborn" <[[email protected]]>]

South Bay Birders,

This morning (29 July), I checked New Chicago Marsh pretty thoroughly from
06:15 until 09:00.  Peep numbers were pretty low, with only 250 Westerns and
about half as many Leasts in the entire marsh.  All the peeps were adults,
as were the 8 Black-bellied Plovers, 65 Semipalmated Plovers, and 140
dowitchers (about equal numbers Long- and Short-billed based on call).  Five
of the 19 Lesser Yellowlegs, 2 of the 52 Greater Yellowlegs, and both
of the Willets were juveniles.  I had a total of 20 Snowy Plovers, one each
on either side (north and south) of the railroad spur just east of the main
stem of railroad tracks, and 18 in the now dry impoundment west of the main
stem of tracks.  Two broods of very young (1-2 day old) American Avocets
were in the State and Spreckles pond, and numerous broods of large but still
unfledged Black-necked Stilts were still present.  Twenty Red-necked and 150
Wilson's Phalaropes were also in New Chicago Marsh.

I then went to the Palo Alto Baylands, walking out around the
north/northeast side of the flood control basin from Byxbee Park.  The tide
was very low, and thousands of shorebirds were far out on the mudflats.  In
the flood control basin itself, I had 16 adult Lesser Scaup (plus broods of
7 very small and 3 medium-large young), four broods of Gadwall, an eclipse
male American Wigeon, and a leucistic male Ruddy Duck with a nearly
all-white head.

Hummingbird activity at our feeders in Morgan Hill is picking up, with at
least four female/imm. Selasphorus fighting over the feeders with 10+ Anna's
this afternoon.

Good birding,

Steve Rottenborn
Morgan Hill, CA




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