[SBB] Great-tailed Grackle at Sunnyvale

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

All,

I visited the Lockheed ponds west of the Sunnyvale closed landfill hill 
this morning 5/16/07, hoping for any sign of Yellow-headed Blackbirds. 
No luck with that, but as soon as I got to the northwest corner of the 
landfill, I heard a singing male GREAT-TAILED GRACKLE. This bird spent 
most of the next 25 minutes singing while perched high atop three of the 
wooden power line poles that run along the north edge of the ponds. Lots 
of breeding activity, with precocial young PIED-BILLED GREBES, AMERICAN 
COOTS, COMMON MOORHEN, and CANADA GEESE, as well as fledgling BLACK 
PHOEBES and COMMON RAVENS (near the used nest). Also a singing MARSH 
WREN building a nest.

Two male AMERICAN WIGEON were in the adjacent west pond of the Sunnyvale 
WPCP, 2 VAUX'S and a WHITE-THROATED SWIFT were with the swallow flock, 
and a WESTERN GREBE was out towards the road to the barge dock. A GRAY 
FOX was foraging in the pond area.

Migrants included a YELLOW WARBLER and a WESTERN KINGBIRD.

Mike Rogers
Sunnyvale

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Opinions expressed are my own and not those of NASA.

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Michael M. Rogers, Ph.D.
Mail Stop T27B-1
NASA Ames Research Center
Moffett Field, CA 94035
650-604-4732

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