[SBB] Last Two Days

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

Folks:

I've gotten behind.  Yesterday, 9/27/07, I stopped by the Sunnyvale 
Baylands Park.  Pat Kenney found the continuing PALM WARBLER and 
Roland Kenner, Frank Vanslager, and I all got to see it.  It was 
active in the eucs near the east end of the large 
cottonwoods.  Migrants seemed in low numbers: a SWAINSON'S THRUSH, an 
ORANGE-CROWNED WARLBER, and 11 YELLOW WARBLERS.

This morning, 9/28/07, I birded the Guadalupe River from Montague to 
Trimble, going upstream on the east levee and coming back on the 
west.  It is no surprise that I saw almost none of the birds that 
Steve found.  I found few migrants: 3 WARBLING VIREOS, 5 WESTERN 
TANAGERS, and one SAGE SPARROW.  The Sage Sparrow was _belli_, which 
is our local subspecies and not the interior bird.  It was feeding on 
the lower levee, not far from the first SCVWD restoration sign 
upstream of Montague.  It was there about 0750 hr when I started out 
and 0950 hr when I returned.

Later in the day, I stopped by Stevens Creek below La Avenida.  The 
light was nice, but the birds were quiet--in an hour and a quarter I 
found only four passerines: Black Phoebe, Bushtit, BLACK-AND-WHITE 
WARBLER, and LINCOLN'S SPARROW.  The warbler was seen from the west 
levee downstream of the cottonwood that has crossed the lower levee 
and perhaps 10 m short of the storm drain between 1530 and 
1545.  This sounds like the same area as many others have seen the 
bird, a female or HY as Mike has noted.

Bill



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