[SBB] Little Blue Heron (Salt Pond A16)

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

Folks:

This morning, 6/9/06, I cycled around Salt Ponds A16 and A17, hoping for 
alternate-plumaged Black Terns.  No luck with finding them, but there is a 
lot of salt pond habitat around here.  My consolation prize was a LITTLE 
BLUE HERON in Salt Pond A16.  I first found the bird about 0830 hrs in the 
northwest corner and last saw it there at 0940 hrs.  This was an adult 
bird, mostly slate-blue, with the outer half of the bill dark, the inner 
half a pale blue, and the lores were a pale blue (but not the cobalt blue 
of a breeding adult).  It had a few head and back plumes.  It foraged in 
the salt pond and I saw it once catch a sculpin-like fish.  The corner here 
can be reached from the Alviso Marina CP lot (about 1.9 mi.) or from the 
EEC, taking the CW route around A16 (about 2.2 mi.).  Two Little Blues in 
one day, how about that!

Among the regular birds, I noted a pair of NORTHERN SHOVELER in New Chicago 
Marsh, a male NORTHERN PINTAIL in the marsh and two males and a female in 
A16, and two pairs of LESSER SCAUP in New Chicago Marsh.  No young of these 
species.  A basic BLACK-BELLIED PLOVER was at State and Spreckles and a 
BURROWING OWL was along the EEC entrance road.


Bill Bousman
Santa Clara County records compiler 


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