[SBB] Sunnyvale Baylands

[Barry Langdon-Lassagne <[[email protected]]>]

Ginger and I spent Monday at Sunnyvale Baylands having a wonderful  
picnic with friends. We took a couple opportunities to wander around  
scanning the poplars and marsh (dried up marsh). Here are the  
highlights:

A Pacific-slope Flycatcher came by the playground several times, and  
was also seen in the poplars to the right of the entrance station  
(possibly more than one, but we only saw one at a time).

In the poplar trees right of the entrance station we also saw: a pair  
of Western Tanagers, many Yellow Warblers (15+), numerous Anna's  
Hummingbirds, heard a couple selasphorous hummingbirds and saw one  
Western Wood-Pewee. Ginger watched a Bushtit in a death-duel with a  
dragonfly larger than itself. The Bushtit won!

In the dry wetlands we watched a Turkey Vulture devour a mouse-sized  
mammal.

A female American Kestrel was actively hunting out past the end of  
the boardwalk.

Also out beyond the boardwalk, on an X-shaped piece of fence, a  
Western Meadowlark sat looking pretty for a while. A shrike was  
distantly visible sitting on one of the many short wooden sticks to  
the east. Barn Swallows flew past fairly regularly.

- Barry & Ginger -

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