[SBB] Cooper's competition in San Carlos

[susan hons <[[email protected]]>]

I have two juvenal Cooper's hawks fighting over territory rights on  
top of my aviary. The parakeets aren't
all that thrilled, but it is great to see the hawks so close. They  
are mantling and screaming at each other,
flying around the aviary, and generally being inept. They can't get  
my birds, but they keep trying. I'm sure
they are hungry, but they would have better luck out back at the  
feeders.
Susie Hons


On Jul 31, 2007, at 9:00 AM, [[email protected]]  
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> Date: Mon, 30 Jul 2007 10:08:23 -0700
> From: "Chuq Von Rospach" <[[email protected]]>
> Subject: [SBB] out of area: birding behind the orange curtain...
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> out of area, but maybe of interest to those of you forced to head  
> south for
> some reason -- I spent the week down in Orange County visiting  
> family, and
> birded a new area, the San Joaquin Wildlife Sanctuary in Irvine.  
> it's a
> converted settling basin area with about 10 miles of trails, very  
> close to
> John Wayne Airport. Beyond the simple fact that there's a place in  
> Orange
> County with water, greenery and only a faded hint of traffic noise,  
> it's not
> a bad birding area.
>
> More details here:
>
> http://chuqui.typepad.com/chuqui_30/2007/07/birding-behind-.html
>
> and photos here:
>
> http://www.flickr.com/photos/chuqui/sets/72157601100987264/
>
> highlight included american bittern, some Wilson's Snipe and Wilson's
> Phalarope, a really nice view of a fishing Osprey, and baby Forster's
> terns...
>
> (for what it's worth, all of my photos get encoded with Google Map
> coordinates, so if you're every curious about finding a place I've  
> taken
> pictures at, you can check out a photo and create a map that'll get  
> you
> there.
>
> Also, for what it's worth after last week's discussion about maps,  
> I've been
> working (slowly, since I got involved in some other stuff  as well  
> after I
> left StrongMail to launch my new web site) on updating all of the  
> Birding at
> the Bottom of the Bay and Salt Pond maps into encodings for Google  
> Maps,
> which I think will make for a very useful resource once it's done.  
> When it's
> ready for viewing and comment, I'll pass along a pointer. Hopefully  
> next
> couple of weeks)
>
>
>
> -- 
> Chuq Von Rospach
> ([[email protected]]; http://chuqui.typepad.com)
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> Date: Mon, 30 Jul 2007 14:45:25 -0700
> From: "Garth Harwood" <[[email protected]]>
> Subject: [SBB] MB05 pond today 7/30/2007
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> Hello All,
>
> Now that the hills are well and truly dry, the 'waterhole effect'  
> is in evidence at the little pond at Monte Bello's gate 5 pond,  
> drawing in some extra birds from the surrounding area. This morning  
> 7/30/2007, the pond margins and willows held family groups of  
> Lawrence's Goldfinch (4; at least 2 of them juveniles), Chipping  
> Sparrow (3; 2+ juveniles), and Lazuli Bunting (5; 2+juveniles).  
> Other highlights included 2 Vaux's Swifts with 48 Violet-green  
> Swallows, a juvenile Green Heron, and a new family group of  
> American Coots with 4 tiny redheaded precocial young. A male Wood  
> Duck, already in nonbreeding plumage, was a pond first for me. It  
> was associating with 3 female-plumaged Mallards.
>
> Although the pond was serene in most respects this morning, I  
> witnessed a violent episode by an adult coot which held a youngster  
> from an earlier brood underwater for a considerable length of time,  
> during which it plucked numerous feathers from the trapped bird. I  
> did not see the victim come back up, but later the total coot-count  
> (9) was back to normal, so I hope it worked out OK.
>
> Additional breeding confirmations this morning were of Dark-eyed  
> Junco and Spotted Towhee, each of which had recently-fledged young  
> at the pond.
>
> --Garth Harwood
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> Date: Mon, 30 Jul 2007 18:41:09 -0400
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> Subject: [SBB] Franklin's continues to continue
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> Hi Birders-
>
> The Franklin's Gull was again easily found at the Sunnyvale WPCP at  
> around 2:30 pm today. It was swimming in the SW-ish corner of the?E  
> pond, about 200 feet out. Two Cattle Egrets are still at Arzino  
> Ranch in Alviso. Earlier today there was nothing unusual seen while  
> wandering the tracks and levee at New Chicago marsh, but there was  
> a pair of Black Skimmers on each of the first two islands on the  
> salt pond N of the EEC.
>
> Dave Weber
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> Date: Mon, 30 Jul 2007 19:38:27 -0700
> From: Debbi Brusco <[[email protected]]>
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