[SBB] high tide in Alviso - 1/19/07

[Mike Rogers <[[email protected]]>]

All,

I took advantage of today's high tide and biked the 9-mile loop around 
the Alviso salt ponds north of the marina, hoping for rare marsh 
sparrows, rails, and bitterns. Had to settle for several hundred SONG 
SPARROWS and 2 to 3 SHORT-EARED OWLS. The owls were in the marsh along 
Coyote Slough, with one north of northwest A15 and two north of 
northwest A9. Plumages of the first and third bird were similar and it 
may be that the same bird was involved (even though the first bird 
seemed to go down in the marsh well before A9, bikers and joggers may 
have flushed it further). There was also a dead (and eaten) SHORT-EARED 
OWL with several other raptor kills just south of the northwest corner 
of A9.

Given time constraints I spent most of my time checking the tidal 
sloughs rather than the salt ponds, but I did make a quick count of 164+ 
REDHEADS on pond A9. A SNOWY PLOVER was with two SEMIPALMATED PLOVERS in 
the muddy area between the east end of the A13/A15 dike and the railroad 
tracks, where one was Saturday.

A hunter was hunting in the thicket opposite the southeast corner of 
pond A10, and later two hunters and a dog headed down slough toward him 
in a boat - are Friday's hunt days too?

Mike Rogers
Sunnyvale


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