[SBB] Shoreline Lake, 9/4

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

We spent some time at Shoreline on Monday. Fairly quiet afternoon  
with a fair bit of wind, but clear. We were greeted by a flight of  
about 25 white pelicans soaring on a thermal; not many surprises here  
otherwise -- the surf scoter with his females was around (he's now in  
full adult plumage). five pied-billed grebes, and the paid of Ruddy  
ducks all were easily found, and happily sorted themselves into  
species-specific groups to make counting even easier. I only saw two  
terns (both forsters), a couple of snowy egrets, a couple of flocks  
of canada geese (gee, what a surprise!) and a half dozen double- 
crested cormorants.

One thing laurie and I both noticed there was a serious silence in  
the bushes; the sparrows seem to be missing. Only thing we found near  
the lake were a couple of hummers. (this seems to coincide with the  
sparrows around our feeder at home flocking; it looks like they're  
about to move out. the oriole families using our feeder this year are  
definitely gone, and we had a couple of juvie male bullock's at the  
feeder for a while, but they haven't been seen in 10 days now)




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

The first rule of holes: If you are in one, stop digging.



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