Re: [SBB] Ulistac Natural Area/ Alviso Sewage

["D Weber" <[[email protected]]>]

The sewage work in Alviso on Speckles St started yesterday afternoon. After 
checking out the pond, I turned around in the pump station driveway and 
noticed a large puddle not there the day before. A closer look revealed that 
it was getting larger. It must have just started a few minutes earlier. Then 
I saw and smelled more putred liquid bubbling from underground. So I walked 
into the company next door and told a guy in the office and he said he'd 
call for help. I also called the City of SJ when I got home. Hope the 
offending matter didn't get into the pond. Birds of note: A male Northern 
Harrier sitting on a mound in the pond on the south side of the EEC road was 
chased off by a female harrier carrying some sort of prey.

Dave Weber,
Milpitas.

----- Original Message ----- 
From: "Chuq Von Rospach" <[[email protected]]>
To: "South Bay South Bay Birds" <[[email protected]]>
Cc: "Chuq Von Rospach" <[[email protected]]>
Sent: Tuesday, October 09, 2007 12:25 PM
Subject: [SBB] Ulistac Natural Area


>
> I decided to bird Ulistac again today, since I wanted to practice LBB
> detection, and I was hoping it might be fruitful for woodpeckers.
>
> There were a lot of little brown birds wandering around, by the time
> I traversed the park, I counted up at least 80-100 crowned sparrows
> (including one flock of 40-50 in the trees near the pumphouse in the
> SE corner); black-crowned outnumbered gold-crowned by about 8:1 or
> so. I also saw four song sparrows and heard at least 3 more. The only
> warbler I saw today was the yellow-rump, but I had at least six
> individuals. rounding out the LBB faction were chestnut-backed
> chickadees, bushtits, and as I was leaving, a yellow-rump got me
> looking into a tree with at least six goldfinches in it (plus
> sparrows....)
>
> Other birds seen included 4-6 hummingbirds,  scrub jays (at least
> six) and mockingbirds (the one with the deformed beak not seen;
> thanks, by the way, to the folks who suggested I report that to the
> people researching this, they were much appreciative, and my web
> posting got another report which I forwarded on). Two turkey vultures
> soared by, plus one other raptor I didn't get a good look at,
> largish, but not a vulture. Over on the guadalupe was a flock of
> blackbirds, and I had a pair of mallards fly by from somewhere north
> of tasman and a great egret flying. At Lick Mill Park where I parked,
> I was visited by a Black Phoebe, ending the adventure.
>
> Oh -- woodpeckers? Four viewings of at least three Northern Flicker
> indivduals, but no other woodpeckers.
>
> Grabbed a sandwich and drove out to EEC to eat it; the garden was
> full of starlings, didn't see anthing else interesting. Realized I
> was running out of time, and drove back via state and spreckles
> (access limited by the city of san jose working on a sewer, with a
> bunch of trucks and unhappy looking people....); a northern harrier
> over the state and spreckles pond causing some bird unhappiness; a
> red tail on one of the power poles; up at Jubilee, saw one burrowing
> owl hanging out at its nest.
>
>
>
>
> --
> Chuq Von Rospach
> [[email protected]]
> http://chuqui.typepad.com
>
>
>
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