Re: [SBB] lots of ibis

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

Continuing the theme, I had 32 dark ibis (presumably White-faced) flying 
south over Nordstrom Elementary School, in Morgan Hill, during my daughter's 
soccer practice this evening.

Steve Rottenborn


----- Original Message ----- 
From: "Mike Rogers" <[[email protected]]>
To: "birders" <[[email protected]]>
Sent: Tuesday, May 08, 2007 2:14 PM
Subject: [SBB] lots of ibis


> All,
>
> Late this morning 5/8/07, I got a message from Bob Reiling that a Black
> Tern was perched on wood pilings in Salt Pond A16 (north of the EEC in
> Alviso), so I headed out there for an early lunch, bumping into Mike
> Mammoser by the railroad tracks crossing. We headed out to Salt Pond
> A16, seeing 2 male GREAT-TAILED GRACKLES flying north along the slough
> north of the EEC as we went. Careful scoping of Salt Pond A16 failed to
> turn up any Black Terns, although we did find 2 RED-NECKED PHALAROPES.
> Turning the other way and scoping Salt Pond A18, I picked up on a very
> large group of about 58 dark ibis (presumably WHITE-FACED IBIS) flying
> low to the south over the northeast corner of A18. These birds gained
> altitude over the San Jose-Santa Clara WPCP and eventually disappeared
> behind the landfill hill near the bend in Zanker Road.
>
> We next checked out the warblers in the cottonwoods, finding 4+
> YELLOW-RUMPED WARBLERS (including a singing adult male MYRTLE, a female
> MYRTLE, and 2 female AUDUBON'S), 2 WILSON'S WARBLERS, a singing YELLOW
> WARBLER, and a WESTERN KINGBIRD. A female BULLOCK'S ORIOLE was building
> a nest and 2 first-summer males were chasing each other around on the
> A16 levee. A USGS employee who had been driving the dikes drove out and
> mentioned an alternate-plumaged Black Tern by the third island (and
> three there yesterday), so we went back out to the pond and walked the
> southern levee to the fourth island. Still no Black Tern, but we added 1
> BLACK-BELLIED PLOVER, 2 SEMIPALMATED PLOVERS, 13 WESTERN SANDPIPERS, 4
> DUNLIN, and 2 alternate-plumaged SPOTTED SANDPIPERS. Also good numbers
> of lingering GREBES (4 species), and dabbling ducks (including AMERICAN
> WIGEON, NORTHERN SHOVELER, and NORTHERN PINTAIL). A leucistic AMERICAN
> COOT was an oddity.
>
> A quick check of Arzino Ranch turned up the two CATTLE EGRETS and 2
> BURROWING OWLS.
>
> Driving back west across highway 237, I saw a group of about 26
> WHITE-FACED IBIS flying south low across the highway at Sunnyvale
> Baylands Park, just east of Caribbean Drive. These birds circled around
> somewhere near Calabazas Creek and Tasman Drive and looked like they
> might have been heading back toward the bay, but I had to move on.
>
> Mike Rogers
> Sunnyvale
>
> P.S. Bob Reiling also mentioned a second-hand report of a Wandering
> Tattler "near the rocks" on Salt Pond A2W (also seen by USGS personnel?).
>
> -- 
>
> Opinions expressed are my own and not those of NASA.
>
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