[SBB] Uvas Canyon County Park

[Ginger Langdon-Lassagne <[[email protected]]>]

Today (3/4/07) Barry Langdon-Lassagne and I (with our kids in tow)  
took a quick jaunt around a few of the parks in the southeast   
section of the county. Not much of note, as the glorious spring  
weather brought out so many people, but there were a couple worth  
mention.

At Chesbro reservoir, the water was extremely low but the numbers of  
COMMON MERGANSER were again quite high. I counted 55, eleven of those  
being male alternate plumage. They were in a mixed flock with  
approximately 100 DOUBLE-CRESTED CORMORANTS. A lonely, single HORNED  
GREBE, still firmly in basic plumage, was a surprise to me, as I've  
usually seen those only much closer to the Bay.

Calero reservoir was swarming with jet skis. There was nothing of  
note visible from the boat ramp, and we gave it up as hopeless.

Uvas Canyon County Park was less overrun with humans, but only  
slightly so. Best sightings were several dozen VARIED THRUSH still  
hanging around (mostly female plumage -- five females seen for every  
male!) and a pair of BROWN CREEPERS in the campground adjacent to the  
restrooms. No sign of the hoped-for American Dipper on the trail up  
to the waterfall, but as heavily trafficked as the area was, it might  
have been hiding out.

May your birding days be jetski-free!

Ginger Langdon-Lassagne

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