Re: [SBB] Sunnyvale water control plant

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

couple of follow-ups for the group for closure:


On Oct 15, 2006, at 5:48 PM, Chuq Von Rospach wrote:

>
> way out in one of the ponds I saw a grebe (likely eared), the only  
> one I saw,

It was confirmed as an eared grebe.

> Two things I'm not sure of. Out on the levee where it makes the  
> turn right (I was on the left-hand side one with the pond that  
> opens up over to Moffett) I distinctly heard something whistling --  
> that distintive whistle of a squeaker toy.

There seems to be general agreement I was hearing an American wigeon.  
I checked my photos and didn't see one, but it was far out on the  
pond, and I've done some online research, and I'm comfortable that  
this is correct.

> Also, one shorebird in the channel next to the radar dish, and I'm  
> not entirely sure what they were. My first thought was marbled  
> godwit, but the beak was dark, not bi-color, and they were smaller  
> than that, but buffy, not grey.

This one generated some early excitement over the possibility of it  
being a bar-tailed godwit, a real rarity in the county. After  
discussion by the SBB council of gods they were juvenile long-billed  
dowitchers with the beak flexed because it was feeding.

And I just want to say, for myself and for a good number of folks on  
the list (who I've been able to talk to via email and on the paths as  
we've met) that I (and we) are all really grateful for the time and  
patience that the senior folks on this list put in to help all of us  
become more informed and better birders.



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



And lo, though I travel through the valley of the archetypes, I shall  
fear no evil, for I know that the author can't kill me off for at  
least another 150 pages, no matter how stupid or trite I become, or  
he ruins the book.



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