[SBB] Palo Alto to Moffett

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

Folks:

This morning, 4/19/06, I cycled from Menlo Park to Moffett Field and 
returned in the afternoon.  The BLACK SKIMMER flock remains at Charleston 
Slough and I had maximum counts of 22, 24, and 28 in the morning and 
afternoon.  Shoreline Lake had at least 9 SURF SCOTERS, which is not too 
many more than the 6-7 birds who have summered here in recent years and are 
mostly cripples.  We will see in the coming months how many remain.  At 
least three female COMMON GOLDENEYES remain on the lake.  For the few 
months, 1-2 basic HORNED GREBES have been on the lake, but today I saw a 
pair of alternate Horned Grebes and they were doing their tango-like look 
this way and that way courtship behavior.  No walking on water miracles, 
however.

Golden-crowned Sparrows seemed to be everywhere.  Numbers appeared much 
higher than found locally through the winter but this could be that the 
local birds are more obvious as they get excited about moving on, or it 
could be that many birds came through in the clear weather of the last two 
nights and are just refueling.

Bill Bousman
Santa Clara County records compiler 


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