[SBB] Yellow-breasted Chats in Gilroy

["Steve and Heather Rottenborn" <[[email protected]]>]

South Bay Birders,

This morning (27 Apr) I checked the South County Regional Wastewater 
Authority plant in Gilroy, checking in at the office before birding the 
ponds and Llagas Creek.  Highlights were 3 singing male Yellow-breasted 
Chats (1 in the willows southeast of the southernmost settling "pond" [now 
dry] and 2 along Llagas Creek just southeast of this pond), a Bank Swallow 
(over the deeper ponds near the entrance gate), 2 Chipping Sparrows with 
White-crowns along the Llagas Creek levee (I have seen very few migrant 
Chipping Sparrows on the valley floor), and 8 Northern Harriers (plus two 
nests with eggs).

Few shorebirds were present -- other than Killdeer, I had only single 
Spotted Sandpiper and Greater Yellowlegs, 5 Wilson's Snipe, 12 Long-billed 
Dowitchers, 2 Least Sandpipers, and 4 Black-necked Stilts.

Waterfowl included a lingering male Canvasback and a pair of Wood Ducks in 
addition to the more regular species.

In addition to the chats, passerines along Llagas Creek included lingering 
Hermit Thrush (1), Lincoln's Sparrow (1), White-crowned Sparrow (19), 
Golden-crowned Sparrow (3), and Yellow-rumped Warbler (1), as well as 2 
Swainson's Thrushes, 9 Wilson's Warblers, and 1 Orange-crowned Warbler.

Good birding,

Steve Rottenborn
Morgan Hill, CA 


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