[SBB] Lapland Longspur (Alviso Slough Trail)

[Bill Bousman <[[email protected]]>]

Folks:

This morning, 10/7/07, I cycled the Alviso Slough Trail from the 
Alviso Marina CP in a CCW direction.  The best bird was a LAPLAND 
LONGSPUR along the northern levee of Salt Pond A9, paralleling Coyote 
Slough.  The longspur was "flighty" and difficult of approach.  I saw 
it a number of times along the levee within 200 m of a wrecked boat 
in the marsh north of the levee.  It would sometimes fly with the 
Savannah Sparrows that were also along the levee.  Unlike the 
Savannahs, I never saw it land in the marsh, rather it would return 
to the verge beside the levee road.

Other birds of interest along this route included a male REDHEAD in 
A15, a female/immature RED-BREASTED MERGANSER in A11, 1380 AM. WHITE 
PELICANS (almost all in A9), 21 BROWN PELICANS (a real drop from a 
week or two ago), and a PELAGIC CORMORANT continuing along the A10/A11 dike.

Bill Bousman
Santa Clara County records compiler 



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