[SBB] Santa Clara County Big Day - 1/1/2007

[[[email protected]] (Mike Rogers)]

All,

Mike Mammoser and I did a Big Day today 1/1/2007, finding 152 species between 5:15am and 5:54pm. Our list included the local rarities YELLOW-BELLIED SAPSUCKER and BLACK-AND-WHITE WARBLER, seen by many others today; unfortunately the Solitary Sandpiper was a no-show when we were there at 3:55pm :(

Dumbest miss was California Quail, but there were many other species that we could have found on our route today that declined to make an appearance.

The cooperative birds (besides the above rarities) included:
BROWN PELICAN - 1 immature soaring over Salt Pond A1
GREEN HERON - 1 at the Geng Road pond
GREATER WHITE-FRONTED GOOSE - immatures at Upper Penitencia Creek Park and along Bailey Road across from IBM
CACKLING GOOSE - 6 at Byxbee Park
BLUE-WINGED TEAL - 2 adult males in Adobe Creek opposite Charleston Slough
EURASIAN WIGEON - 1 male in Salt Pond A1
REDHEAD - 6 in outer Charleston Slough
BARROW'S GOLDENEYE - 1 pair at Shoreline Lake
HOODED MERGANSER - 4 at the pond below Gate 5 at Monte Bello; 1 at Geng Road pond
OSPREY - 1 opposite Parkway Lakes
GOLDEN EAGLE - Calaveras Road below Ed Levin County Park
PEREGRINE FALCON - 4 adults (3 at Palo Alto Baylands, 1 on Elwell Court tower)
SEMIPALMATED PLOVER - 1 in Mountain View Forebay
SANDERLING - 3 in eastern Salt Pond A8, scoped from the levee behind the old cannery building
NORTHERN SAW-WHET OWL - at least 1 at Monte Bello OSP
...also BARN, WESTERN SCREECH, GREAT HORNED, and BURROWING OWLS
PILEATED WOODPECKER - very vocal at Monte Bello OSP, 7:25am to 8:32 am
...an eight-woodpecker-species day!
TREE (4+) and BARN (2+) SWALLOWS over the Palo Alto Flood Control Basin - at least 8 swallows were out there
GOLDEN-CROWNED KINGLET - 2 at Monte Bello OSP
VARIED THRUSH - small numbers at Monte Bello OSP
YELLOW WARBLER - 1 at the EEC in Alviso
WHITE-THROATED SPARROW - 1 continuing along Matadero Creek northeast of highway 101
BROWN-HEADED COWBIRD - 2 with blackbirds at stables at junction of Calaveras and Piedmont Roads

Mike Rogers
Sunnyvale

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