From [[email protected]] Fri Aug 01 09:12:04 1997 Subject: COMPOSITE LIST AUGUST 1 1997 SANTA CLARA COUNTY YEAR LIST UPDATE Shorebirds we still need include Wandering Tattler, Black Turnstone, Sharp-tailed Sandpiper, Stilt Sandpiper, Buff-breasted Sandpiper, and Red Phalarope. Also, later this month is a good time to start looking for a southbound Dusky Flycatcher among the Willow Flycatchers at CCRS. Mike P.S. Some advice from Kendric: [To make the columns line up, please copy this list to a word processor, and change the font to a monospaced font (Monoco, Courier, etc.), and set the right hand margin to 7.5 inches.] ________________________________________________________________________ Recent progress of the composite list: 263: 7/18/97 COSTA'S HUMMINGBIRD 264: 7/24/97 GOLDEN-PLOVER SP. 7/27/97 AMERICAN GOLDEN-PLOVER 265: 7/27/97 PACIFIC GOLDEN-PLOVER 266: 7/28/97 ELEGANT TERN 267: 7/30/97 PECTORAL SANDPIPER Please send any additions, corrections, or comments to Mike Rogers, [[email protected]]. SANTA CLARA COUNTY YEAR LIST - 1997 RWR AME WGB MMR MJM KLP MLF SCR CKS COMP SOURCE 375 244 247 216 238 234 177 267 % OF COMPOSITE FOR 1997 % OF 375 1988 TOTALS 136 1989 TOTALS 183 1990 TOTALS 199 1991 TOTALS 214 209 1992 TOTALS 216 234 234 215 278 1993 TOTALS 228 254 250 235 279 295 1994 TOTALS 204 240 245 271 265 194 291 303 1995 TOTALS 201 220 170 257 242 165 262 185 293 1996 TOTALS 203 219 258 253 218 251 195 295 Red-throated Loon 1/ 1 1/ 5 1/ 6 1/ 3 1/14 1/ 1 MMR Pacific Loon 1/ 1 1/ 9 1/ 1 1/ 3 1/ 1 1/11 1/ 1 m.ob. Common Loon 1/ 8 1/ 9 1/ 6 1/ 3 1/14 1/11 1/ 3 MLF Pied-billed Grebe 1/ 1 1/ 3 1/ 1 1/ 3 1/ 1 1/ 3 1/ 1 m.ob. Horned Grebe 1/ 1 1/ 5 1/ 1 1/ 3 1/ 1 1/11 1/ 1 m.ob. Red-necked Grebe Eared Grebe 1/ 1 1/ 5 1/ 1 1/ 3 1/ 1 1/ 3 1/ 1 m.ob. Western Grebe 1/ 1 1/11 1/ 2 1/10 1/ 1 2/ 1 1/ 1 SCR,MMR Clark's Grebe 1/ 9 1/11 1/ 2 1/ 6 1/ 1 1/ 9 1/ 1 SCR Northern Fulmar Sooty Shearwater Ashy Storm-Petrel Brown Booby American White Pelican 1/23 4/26 1/ 1 1/27 1/ 1 7/13 1/ 1 SCR,KLP Brown Pelican 1/ 1 6/15 1/ 1 1/ 3 1/ 1 1/ 3 1/ 1 m.ob. Double-crested Cormorant 1/ 1 1/ 3 1/ 1 1/ 3 1/ 1 1/ 3 1/ 1 m.ob. Brandt's Cormorant Pelagic Cormorant Magnificent Frigatebird American Bittern 3/13 3/ 8 3/19 3/13 4/ 3 1/10 NLe Least Bittern Great Blue Heron 1/ 1 1/ 3 1/ 1 1/ 3 1/ 1 1/ 5 1/ 1 m.ob. Great Egret 1/ 1 1/ 5 1/ 1 1/ 3 1/ 1 1/ 3 1/ 1 m.ob. Snowy Egret 1/ 1 1/ 5 1/ 1 1/ 3 1/ 1 1/ 3 1/ 1 m.ob. Little Blue Heron 6/ 9 6/15 7/29 6/ 7 6/ 7 MLF,AME Cattle Egret 1/ 8 1/18 1/23 1/ 4 1/14 2/20 1/ 4 MLF Green Heron 1/ 8 1/ 5 1/ 1 1/11 1/ 1 3/23 1/ 1 SCR,KLP Black-crowned Night-Heron 1/ 1 1/ 5 1/ 1 1/ 3 1/ 1 1/ 8 1/ 1 m.ob. White-faced Ibis Fulvous Whistling-Duck Tundra Swan Greater White-fronted Goose 1/ 8 1/ 8 1/11 1/ 9 1/14 1/ 8 1/ 8 m.ob. Snow Goose 1/ 8 1/ 8 1/ 7 1/ 7 KLP Ross' Goose 1/ 2 1/ 8 1/ 2 1/ 4 1/14 1/ 2 MMR,KLP Brant Canada Goose 1/ 1 1/ 5 1/ 1 1/ 3 1/ 1 1/ 5 1/ 1 m.ob. Wood Duck 1/ 5 1/ 3 1/11 1/11 5/11 2/ 1 1/ 3 MJM,WGB Green-winged Teal 1/ 1 1/ 5 1/ 2 1/ 3 1/ 1 1/ 3 1/ 1 SCR,MMR Mallard 1/ 1 1/ 3 1/ 1 1/ 3 1/ 1 1/ 1 1/ 1 m.ob. Northern Pintail 1/ 1 1/ 5 1/ 1 1/ 9 1/ 1 1/ 3 1/ 1 m.ob. Garganey Blue-winged Teal 1/ 9 1/18 1/ 9 1/ 9 1/ 1 2/ 9 1/ 1 SCR Cinnamon Teal 1/ 8 1/ 5 1/ 2 1/ 3 1/ 1 2/ 9 1/ 1 SCR Northern Shoveler 1/ 1 1/ 5 1/ 1 1/ 3 1/ 1 1/ 3 1/ 1 m.ob. Gadwall 1/ 1 1/ 3 1/ 1 1/ 9 1/ 1 1/ 3 1/ 1 m.ob. Eurasian Wigeon 1/13 1/19 1/14 1/27 1/11 1/ 4 DMu American Wigeon 1/ 1 1/ 5 1/ 2 1/ 4 1/ 1 1/ 3 1/ 1 SCR,MMR Canvasback 1/ 1 1/ 5 1/ 2 1/ 3 1/ 1 1/ 3 1/ 1 SCR,MMR Redhead 1/ 9 1/ 5 1/ 9 1/ 9 2/ 6 2/ 9 1/ 4 DMu Ring-necked Duck 1/ 5 1/ 3 1/ 1 1/11 1/ 1 1/ 3 1/ 1 SCR,KLP Tufted Duck 1/13 1/18 2/ 2 1/24 1/ 1 1/ 1 SCR Greater Scaup 1/10 1/ 5 1/ 1 1/ 3 1/ 1 1/ 9 1/ 1 SCR,KLP Lesser Scaup 1/ 1 1/ 5 1/ 1 1/ 3 1/ 1 1/ 3 1/ 1 m.ob. Oldsquaw 2/13 2/14 2/13 2/13 2/15 2/13 LCh Black Scoter Surf Scoter 1/ 1 1/ 5 1/ 1 1/ 3 1/ 1 2/ 9 1/ 1 m.ob. White-winged Scoter Common Goldeneye 1/ 1 1/ 5 1/ 1 1/ 3 1/ 1 1/ 3 1/ 1 m.ob. Barrow's Goldeneye 1/ 1 1/ 5 1/ 1 1/ 3 1/ 1 1/ 3 1/ 1 m.ob. Bufflehead 1/ 1 1/ 3 1/ 1 1/ 3 1/ 1 1/ 3 1/ 1 m.ob. Hooded Merganser 1/ 3 1/ 1 1/ 3 1/ 3 1/ 1 KLP Common Merganser 1/ 3 3/ 1 1/ 6 1/11 1/ 1 2/ 1 1/ 1 SCR Red-breasted Merganser 1/ 1 1/ 5 1/ 2 1/ 3 1/ 1 1/ 8 1/ 1 SCR,MMR Ruddy Duck 1/ 1 1/ 3 1/ 1 1/ 3 1/ 1 1/ 3 1/ 1 m.ob. Turkey Vulture 1/ 3 1/ 3 1/ 1 1/ 3 1/ 1 1/ 3 1/ 1 SCR,KLP California Condor Osprey 4/ 3 3/ 1 2/ 8 3/ 3 1/10 1/10 SCR White-tailed Kite 1/ 5 1/ 5 1/ 1 1/ 4 1/ 1 1/ 5 1/ 1 SCR,KLP Bald Eagle 1/13 1/ 3 1/ 7 1/11 1/ 1 1/ 1 SCR Northern Harrier 1/ 6 1/ 3 1/ 1 1/ 3 1/ 1 1/ 5 1/ 1 SCR,KLP Sharp-shinned Hawk 1/ 1 1/ 3 1/11 1/17 1/12 3/ 9 1/ 1 MMR Cooper's Hawk 1/10 2/12 1/ 7 1/ 4 1/12 2/16 1/ 3 WGB Northern Goshawk Red-shouldered Hawk 1/ 1 1/11 1/ 2 1/ 3 1/ 1 1/30 1/ 1 SCR,MMR Broad-winged Hawk Swainson's Hawk 2/ 8 2/ 8 MJM Red-tailed Hawk 1/ 1 1/ 3 1/ 1 1/ 9 1/ 1 1/ 6 1/ 1 m.ob. Ferruginous Hawk 1/13 1/ 3 1/14 1/19 1/ 3 MJM Rough-legged Hawk Golden Eagle 1/ 3 1/ 3 1/14 1/19 1/ 1 1/11 1/ 1 SCR American Kestrel 1/ 1 1/ 3 1/ 1 1/ 3 1/ 1 1/ 4 1/ 1 m.ob. Merlin 1/ 1 1/ 3 1/ 3 1/ 4 1/ 1 MMR Peregrine Falcon 1/ 5 1/ 5 1/ 2 1/ 4 1/ 1 1/ 8 1/ 1 SCR Prairie Falcon 1/23 1/ 3 1/ 1 1/ 1 1/ 1 SCR,KLP Ring-necked Pheasant 1/ 1 1/ 5 1/23 1/ 4 1/14 1/ 1 MMR Wild Turkey 3/ 5 3/ 9 4/ 5 7/20 3/ 9 1/26 LCh et al. California Quail 1/ 3 1/ 3 3/20 1/ 4 1/ 1 1/19 1/ 1 SCR Mountain Quail 5/ 7 5/ 4 5/13 3/21 1/12 LAY Yellow Rail Black Rail 1/ 8 1/ 8 1/ 9 1/ 9 2/ 8 1/ 8 m.ob. Clapper Rail 1/ 8 1/ 8 1/ 2 1/ 6 1/ 1 1/ 9 1/ 1 SCR Virginia Rail 1/ 1 1/ 8 1/ 7 1/ 4 1/14 1/ 1 MMR Sora 1/ 8 1/ 8 1/ 7 1/ 6 1/10 1/ 6 MLF Common Moorhen 1/ 1 1/ 5 1/ 1 1/ 3 1/ 1 1/ 5 1/ 1 m.ob. American Coot 1/ 1 1/ 3 1/ 1 1/ 3 1/ 1 1/ 2 1/ 1 m.ob. Sandhill Crane Black-bellied Plover 1/14 1/19 1/ 2 1/19 1/ 1 1/ 1 SCR Pacific Golden-Plover 7/30 7/27 DNo,JAb American Golden-Plover 7/27 PJM Golden-Plover sp 7/24 Snowy Plover 5/12 4/ 6 4/ 6 MJM Semipalmated Plover 1/14 4/12 1/ 2 7/21 1/ 1 7/21 1/ 1 SCR Killdeer 1/ 1 1/ 3 1/ 2 1/ 4 1/ 1 1/ 7 1/ 1 SCR,MMR Mountain Plover Black Oystercatcher Black-necked Stilt 1/ 1 1/ 5 1/ 1 1/ 3 1/ 1 1/ 3 1/ 1 m.ob. American Avocet 1/ 1 1/ 5 1/ 1 1/ 3 1/ 1 1/ 3 1/ 1 m.ob. Greater Yellowlegs 1/ 1 1/ 3 1/ 1 1/ 3 1/ 1 1/ 3 1/ 1 m.ob. Lesser Yellowlegs 7/ 7 3/ 8 1/ 2 1/17 3/26 1/26 1/ 2 KLP Solitary Sandpiper 4/27 4/21 4/21 SCR Willet 1/ 8 1/ 5 1/ 1 1/ 4 1/ 1 1/ 3 1/ 1 SCR,KLP Wandering Tattler Spotted Sandpiper 4/23 3/ 9 5/ 8 5/13 1/10 1/ 3 AV Whimbrel 3/16 2/23 3/19 7/ 8 1/21 7/21 1/21 SCR Long-billed Curlew 1/ 1 1/11 1/ 2 1/ 4 1/ 1 1/26 1/ 1 SCR,MMR Hudsonian Godwit Bar-tailed Godwit Marbled Godwit 1/14 1/ 5 1/ 2 1/19 1/ 1 3/29 1/ 1 SCR Ruddy Turnstone 7/24 7/21 4/17 4/17 SCR Black Turnstone Red Knot 4/26 4/30 4/26 MJM Sanderling 1/14 1/ 7 1/17 1/ 1 1/ 1 SCR Semipalmated Sandpiper 5/12 7/ 6 7/ 8 7/ 6 5/12 MMR Western Sandpiper 1/13 1/19 1/ 2 1/17 1/ 1 1/ 8 1/ 1 SCR Least Sandpiper 1/13 1/11 1/ 2 1/ 4 1/ 1 1/ 3 1/ 1 SCR Baird's Sandpiper 4/13 AJa Pectoral Sandpiper 7/30 AJa Sharp-tailed Sandpiper Dunlin 1/13 1/ 5 1/ 2 1/ 6 1/ 1 1/ 3 1/ 1 SCR Curlew Sandpiper 7/23 7/25 7/24 7/24 4/17 4/17 SCR Stilt Sandpiper Buff-breasted Sandpiper Ruff 6/29 6/29 SCR Short-billed Dowitcher 3/16 3/23 1/ 2 3/22 1/ 1 1/ 3 1/ 1 SCR Long-billed Dowitcher 1/ 1 1/ 5 1/ 2 1/ 3 1/ 1 2/ 9 1/ 1 SCR,MMR Common Snipe 1/ 8 3/ 2 3/ 3 1/ 1 1/ 1 SCR Wilson's Phalarope 6/25 6/15 7/29 6/17 5/10 4/22 AJa Red-necked Phalarope 4/ 1 7/ 4 7/29 7/28 4/20 4/ 1 MMR Red Phalarope Pomarine Jaeger Parasitic Jaeger Long-tailed Jaeger Laughing Gull Franklin's Gull 4/13 MDa,LDa Little Gull Black-headed Gull Bonaparte's Gull 1/ 1 1/ 5 1/ 2 1/16 1/ 1 1/26 1/ 1 SCR,MMR Heermann's Gull Mew Gull 1/ 1 1/ 5 1/ 1 1/ 4 1/ 1 1/26 1/ 1 m.ob. Ring-billed Gull 1/ 1 1/ 5 1/ 1 1/ 2 1/ 1 1/ 3 1/ 1 m.ob. California Gull 1/ 1 1/ 5 1/ 1 1/ 3 1/ 1 3/ 1 1/ 1 m.ob. Herring Gull 1/ 1 1/ 5 1/ 1 1/ 3 1/ 1 1/26 1/ 1 m.ob. Thayer's Gull 1/ 1 1/11 1/11 1/10 1/ 1 3/ 1 1/ 1 SCR,MMR Lesser Black-backed Gull 1/ 1 1/14 1/ 1 MMR Western Gull 1/14 1/ 5 1/23 1/ 3 1/ 1 1/ 3 1/ 1 SCR Glaucous-winged Gull 1/ 6 1/ 5 1/ 1 1/ 3 1/ 1 1/ 8 1/ 1 SCR,KLP Glaucous Gull 2/10 1/11 3/ 5 1/17 1/11 m.ob. Black-legged Kittiwake Sabine's Gull Caspian Tern 3/ 6 4/26 4/ 5 3/ 6 7/13 3/ 6 SCR,MMR Elegant Tern 7/29 BiR Common Tern Arctic Tern Forster's Tern 1/ 1 1/11 1/ 7 1/10 1/ 1 3/29 1/ 1 SCR,MMR Least Tern 7/21 7/ 6 7/29 7/21 7/24 7/21 7/ 6 MJM,PJM Black Tern Black Skimmer 1/ 1 1/ 5 1/ 9 1/ 3 1/ 1 1/ 3 1/ 1 SCR,MMR Common Murre Ancient Murrelet Cassin's Auklet Rock Dove 1/ 1 1/ 5 1/ 1 1/ 2 1/ 1 1/ 2 1/ 1 m.ob. Band-tailed Pigeon 1/ 3 1/ 3 3/ 3 3/ 8 2/13 5/11 1/ 3 MMR,MJM White-winged Dove Mourning Dove 1/ 1 1/ 5 1/ 1 1/ 3 1/ 1 1/ 1 1/ 1 m.ob. Yellow-billed Cuckoo Greater Roadrunner 5/17 5/17 1/ 3 WGB Barn Owl 3/16 2/23 1/ 7 1/ 6 1/ 6 6/ 7 1/ 4 RWR,FVS Flammulated Owl Western Screech-Owl 2/15 1/19 3/21 7/20 1/19 MJM Great Horned Owl 2/15 1/19 1/ 7 2/23 1/ 3 WGB Northern Pygmy-Owl 2/15 1/19 3/ 8 1/19 MJM Burrowing Owl 1/ 1 1/18 1/ 9 1/10 1/ 1 1/ 5 1/ 1 SCR,MMR Long-eared Owl 1/ 6 5/11 1/ 3 GBi Short-eared Owl 1/ 9 3/ 8 1/ 9 1/19 1/ 8 SSt Northern Saw-whet Owl 2/15 1/19 1/ 1 1/ 1 MLF,JMa Lesser Nighthawk Common Nighthawk 6/12 SBT Nighthawk sp. 7/18 Common Poorwill 5/ 7 4/27 3/21 3/21 MLF Black Swift 5/24 5/24 MJM Chimney Swift Vaux's Swift 4/17 4/27 4/ 8 5/10 6/23 7/16 4/ 8 KLP White-throated Swift 1/ 5 1/11 1/ 4 1/ 4 1/ 6 2/16 1/ 3 MtHamCBC Black-chinned Hummingbird 4/22 4/12 4/ 3 5/14 4/ 3 NLe Anna's Hummingbird 1/ 1 1/ 3 1/ 1 1/ 1 1/ 1 1/ 1 1/ 1 m.ob. Costa's Hummingbird 7/18 7/19 7/18 7/18 DCr Calliope Hummingbird 5/ 6 5/ 6 SCR Broad-tailed Hummingbird Rufous Hummingbird 3/15 3/29 4/ 1 4/ 3 2/22 TGr Allen's Hummingbird 1/13 2/15 1/23 1/21 3/23 2/16 1/13 MMR Belted Kingfisher 1/ 1 1/ 5 1/ 3 1/ 3 1/ 1 2/13 1/ 1 SCR,MMR Lewis' Woodpecker 1/ 3 1/ 3 3/ 1 5/17 1/ 3 m.ob. Acorn Woodpecker 1/ 3 1/ 3 1/ 7 1/ 4 1/ 1 1/19 1/ 1 SCR Yellow-bellied Sapsucker 1/ 5 1/11 1/ 2 1/ 4 1/ 1 1/ 1 SCR Red-naped Sapsucker Red-breasted Sapsucker 1/ 3 1/11 1/ 1 1/ 6 1/ 1 3/22 1/ 1 SCR,KLP Williamson's Sapsucker Nuttall's Woodpecker 1/ 1 1/ 3 1/ 1 1/ 3 1/ 1 1/ 6 1/ 1 m.ob. Downy Woodpecker 1/ 1 1/11 1/ 4 1/ 4 1/ 1 1/ 8 1/ 1 SCR,MMR Hairy Woodpecker 1/ 3 1/ 3 1/ 4 1/ 1 2/23 2/15 1/ 1 MLF,JMa Northern Flicker 1/ 1 1/ 3 1/ 1 1/ 3 1/ 1 1/ 6 1/ 1 m.ob. Pileated Woodpecker 5/31 m.ob. Olive-sided Flycatcher 5/ 6 5/ 3 5/ 6 5/ 4 5/ 8 4/20 4/17 JMa Western Wood-Pewee 4/17 4/19 5/ 6 5/ 4 4/20 4/20 4/16 JMa,AV Willow Flycatcher 5/27 5/18 LCh Least Flycatcher Hammond's Flycatcher 4/12 4/25 4/12 MMR Dusky Flycatcher Gray Flycatcher 5/ 6 5/ 6 SCR Pacific-slope Flycatcher 3/29 2/17 4/ 2 3/ 5 3/23 3/30 2/17 MJM Black Phoebe 1/ 1 1/ 3 1/ 1 1/ 3 1/ 1 1/ 1 1/ 1 m.ob. Eastern Phoebe 3/ 2 3/ 2 3/ 5 3/ 3 3/ 2 MJM,MMR Say's Phoebe 1/ 1 1/ 3 1/ 7 1/ 9 1/ 1 1/ 8 1/ 1 SCR,MMR Ash-throated Flycatcher 3/16 4/ 5 5/ 6 4/30 4/ 8 2/ 5 1/23 MNi,CNa Tropical Kingbird Cassin's Kingbird 4/13 4/13 4/17 5/ 4 5/ 2 4/13 MMR,MJM Western Kingbird 4/ 3 4/13 4/17 4/ 5 4/ 3 4/ 5 3/30 NLe,LAY Eastern Kingbird Scissor-tailed Flycatcher Horned Lark 1/10 1/19 1/29 1/ 4 5/13 1/ 4 MLF Purple Martin 5/ 6 5/ 3 5/ 7 5/10 4/20 3/23 FVs Tree Swallow 2/28 2/23 3/ 5 2/28 3/ 2 1/ 3 WGB Violet-green Swallow 2/28 2/23 5/ 6 3/ 6 1/ 1 3/ 9 1/ 1 SCR Nor. Rough-winged Swallow 2/27 3/ 9 3/ 5 3/ 5 3/13 3/22 2/27 MMR Bank Swallow 7/ 6 4/?? LTe Cliff Swallow 3/ 6 3/ 8 3/19 2/28 3/ 2 3/22 2/28 MLF Barn Swallow 3/12 2/28 3/ 5 3/10 3/ 2 3/23 2/24 AJa Steller's Jay 1/ 3 1/19 1/ 3 1/ 1 1/ 1 1/19 1/ 1 m.ob. Western Scrub-Jay 1/ 1 1/ 3 1/ 1 1/ 3 1/ 1 1/11 1/ 1 m.ob. Clark's Nutcracker Black-billed Magpie Yellow-billed Magpie 1/ 3 1/ 3 1/ 2 1/ 4 1/ 1 1/ 6 1/ 1 SCR American Crow 1/ 1 1/ 3 1/ 1 1/ 2 1/ 1 1/ 1 1/ 1 m.ob. Common Raven 1/ 3 1/ 3 1/ 2 1/ 2 1/ 1 1/ 5 1/ 1 SCR Chestnut-backed Chickadee 1/ 1 1/11 1/ 1 1/ 1 1/ 1 1/ 3 1/ 1 m.ob. Oak Titmouse 1/ 3 1/ 3 1/ 1 1/ 4 1/ 1 1/19 1/ 1 SCR,KLP Bushtit 1/ 1 1/11 1/ 1 1/ 4 1/ 1 1/ 2 1/ 1 m.ob. Red-breasted Nuthatch 1/10 1/11 1/ 1 1/ 4 1/ 1 1/ 4 1/ 1 SCR,KLP White-breasted Nuthatch 1/ 3 1/ 3 1/ 7 1/ 4 1/ 1 2/15 1/ 1 SCR Pygmy Nuthatch 2/17 2/16 1/ 1 1/ 1 MLF,JMa Brown Creeper 1/ 3 1/19 3/20 1/ 1 1/10 1/ 3 1/ 1 MLF,JMa Rock Wren 1/10 1/ 3 1/29 1/ 4 5/13 1/ 3 MJM Canyon Wren 1/10 2/ 9 3/20 1/19 1/ 1 3/22 1/ 1 SCR Bewick's Wren 1/ 3 1/ 3 1/ 1 1/ 1 1/ 1 2/ 5 1/ 1 m.ob. House Wren 3/15 3/16 3/20 3/15 1/ 1 3/22 1/ 1 SCR Winter Wren 2/17 1/19 1/ 1 1/ 1 1/ 1 m.ob. Marsh Wren 1/ 1 1/ 5 1/ 7 1/ 9 1/ 1 1/ 9 1/ 1 SCR,MMR American Dipper 3/ 2 3/ 1 3/19 3/ 4 1/30 CFi Golden-crowned Kinglet 1/ 3 2/15 1/ 1 1/19 1/ 1 2/ 5 1/ 1 SCR,KLP Ruby-crowned Kinglet 1/ 1 1/ 3 1/ 1 1/ 1 1/ 1 1/ 5 1/ 1 m.ob. Blue-gray Gnatcatcher 3/29 3/23 5/ 6 3/29 4/13 5/11 1/17 AJa Western Bluebird 1/ 3 1/ 3 1/ 2 1/ 4 1/ 1 2/15 1/ 1 SCR Mountain Bluebird Townsend's Solitaire 1/ 3 GCh,HGe Swainson's Thrush 5/ 1 5/ 4 4/17 5/10 5/ 8 4/17 KLP Hermit Thrush 1/ 1 1/11 1/ 2 1/ 1 1/ 1 1/ 8 1/ 1 m.ob. American Robin 1/ 1 1/ 3 1/ 1 1/ 1 1/ 1 1/ 3 1/ 1 m.ob. Varied Thrush 1/ 3 1/ 3 1/ 7 1/ 1 1/ 1 2/15 1/ 1 m.ob. Wrentit 1/ 3 1/ 3 1/23 1/ 1 1/ 1 2/15 1/ 1 m.ob. Northern Mockingbird 1/ 1 1/ 5 1/ 1 1/ 3 1/ 1 1/ 2 1/ 1 m.ob. Sage Thrasher Brown Thrasher California Thrasher 1/ 3 1/ 3 1/14 1/ 4 1/ 1 2/15 1/ 1 SCR Red-throated Pipit American Pipit 1/ 5 1/ 3 1/ 4 1/ 1 1/11 1/ 1 SCR Bohemian Waxwing Cedar Waxwing 1/ 3 2/17 1/23 1/ 3 1/ 1 1/ 3 1/ 1 SCR Phainopepla 6/10 5/18 5/31 5/17 1/ 3 DSc Northern Shrike Loggerhead Shrike 1/ 1 1/ 3 1/ 2 1/ 9 1/ 1 1/ 5 1/ 1 SCR,MMR European Starling 1/ 1 1/ 3 1/ 1 1/ 3 1/ 1 1/ 1 1/ 1 m.ob. Bell's Vireo Blue-headed Vireo Cassin's Vireo 3/16 4/ 6 5/13 5/ 4 4/12 1/ 6 KNe Plumbeous Vireo Hutton's Vireo 2/15 2/16 3/ 1 4/ 8 1/19 1/ 1 JMa Warbling Vireo 3/29 3/15 5/ 6 3/22 4/ 8 4/ 6 3/12 AME Red-eyed Vireo Tennessee Warbler Orange-crowned Warbler 2/12 1/25 5/ 6 3/ 8 1/ 1 4/ 6 1/ 1 SCR Nashville Warbler 4/24 4/ 5 5/ 4 5/12 4/ 5 MJM Virginia's Warbler Northern Parula Yellow Warbler 1/ 8 4/12 5/ 6 4/ 5 1/12 1/ 8 MMR Chestnut-sided Warbler Magnolia Warbler Black-throated Blue Warbler Yellow-rumped Warbler 1/ 1 1/ 5 1/ 1 1/ 1 1/ 1 1/ 3 1/ 1 m.ob. Black-throated Gray Warbler 4/12 3/30 5/13 4/ 5 5/17 3/30 MJM Townsend's Warbler 1/ 5 1/19 1/ 3 1/ 1 1/10 1/11 1/ 1 MLF,JMa Hermit Warbler 3/15 4/25 1/ 4 3/15 2/ 7 1/ 3 1/ 3 CKS Black-throated Green Warbler Blackburnian Warbler Palm Warbler 1/ 5 1/11 1/ 4 1/ 3 1/ 3 1/ 3 MLF,CKS Blackpoll Warbler Black-and-White Warbler American Redstart Prothonotary Warbler Worm-eating Warbler Ovenbird Northern Waterthrush Kentucky Warbler Connecticut Warbler MacGillivray's Warbler 5/11 5/11 5/11 MMR,MJM Common Yellowthroat 1/ 1 1/ 5 1/ 2 1/ 6 1/ 1 1/ 8 1/ 1 SCR,MMR Hooded Warbler 1/ 6 1/11 1/11 1/11 1/ 1 1/ 1 SCR Wilson's Warbler 3/16 3/23 3/29 4/ 3 4/ 6 3/16 MMR,TJo Yellow-breasted Chat 5/10 5/18 5/18 5/13 4/13 DLS Summer Tanager 1/16 3/ 2 1/14 2/23 1/24 1/14 KLP Scarlet Tanager Western Tanager 4/24 4/25 5/ 6 5/ 7 5/ 8 4/20 AV Rose-breasted Grosbeak Black-headed Grosbeak 4/ 3 4/ 5 4/17 3/21 4/ 3 1/ 8 RCO Blue Grosbeak 4/20 4/22 5/ 5 4/30 5/ 6 4/27 4/20 MMR Lazuli Bunting 4/13 4/13 5/ 5 4/30 4/20 4/27 1/19 MMi Indigo Bunting Dickcissel Green-tailed Towhee Spotted Towhee 1/ 3 1/ 3 1/ 3 1/ 4 1/ 1 1/19 1/ 1 SCR California Towhee 1/ 1 1/ 3 1/ 1 1/ 3 1/ 1 1/ 2 1/ 1 m.ob. Rufous-crowned Sparrow 4/10 2/ 9 3/20 3/22 5/ 6 4/27 1/ 3 MtHamCBC American Tree Sparrow Chipping Sparrow 4/12 4/13 5/13 5/11 5/17 4/12 MMR Clay-colored Sparrow Brewer's Sparrow Black-chinned Sparrow 5/ 6 5/10 5/10 5/17 5/ 6 MMR Vesper Sparrow Lark Sparrow 1/10 1/ 3 1/ 7 1/19 5/13 1/ 3 MJM Black-throated Sparrow Sage Sparrow 1/ 3 4/19 5/17 5/17 1/ 3 m.ob. Lark Bunting Savannah Sparrow 1/ 3 1/ 3 1/ 7 1/ 4 1/ 1 1/26 1/ 1 SCR Grasshopper Sparrow 4/10 4/20 4/16 5/ 4 4/13 4/10 MMR Nelson's Sharp-tailed Sparrow 1/ 8 1/ 8 1/ 9 1/ 9 2/ 9 1/ 8 m.ob. Fox Sparrow 1/ 1 1/ 3 1/11 1/11 1/ 1 1/ 8 1/ 1 m.ob. Song Sparrow 1/ 1 1/ 5 1/ 2 1/ 4 1/ 1 1/ 3 1/ 1 SCR,MMR Lincoln's Sparrow 1/ 1 1/ 5 1/ 9 1/11 1/ 1 2/ 5 1/ 1 SCR,MMR Swamp Sparrow White-throated Sparrow 4/17 1/16 1/ 6 KNe Golden-crowned Sparrow 1/ 1 1/ 3 1/ 1 1/ 4 1/ 1 1/ 3 1/ 1 m.ob. White-crowned Sparrow 1/ 1 1/ 3 1/ 1 1/ 3 1/ 1 1/ 3 1/ 1 m.ob. Harris' Sparrow Dark-eyed Junco 1/ 3 1/ 3 1/ 1 1/ 1 1/ 1 1/ 3 1/ 1 m.ob. Lapland Longspur Chestnut-collared Longspur Bobolink Red-winged Blackbird 1/ 1 1/ 5 1/ 1 1/ 3 1/ 1 1/26 1/ 1 m.ob. Tricolored Blackbird 1/ 2 2/22 1/ 2 1/28 1/ 1 1/ 1 SCR Western Meadowlark 1/ 1 1/ 3 1/ 1 1/ 4 1/ 1 1/ 3 1/ 1 m.ob. Yellow-headed Blackbird 4/13 4/13 5/ 7 5/ 4 4/11 4/11 SCR Brewer's Blackbird 1/ 1 1/ 3 1/ 2 1/ 4 1/ 1 1/ 3 1/ 1 MMR,SCR Great-tailed Grackle Brown-headed Cowbird 1/ 1 2/20 1/ 1 1/ 6 1/ 1 5/ 8 1/ 1 m.ob. Hooded Oriole 3/27 3/29 4/16 3/27 4/10 4/ 5 3/19 PLN Baltimore Oriole Bullock's Oriole 3/15 3/15 3/20 2/23 3/26 4/20 2/23 MLF Scott's Oriole Purple Finch 1/16 1/ 3 1/29 1/ 1 2/13 3/22 1/ 1 MLF,JMa Cassin's Finch 4/12 4/ 5 3/ 2 SBT House Finch 1/ 1 1/ 5 1/ 1 1/ 3 1/ 1 1/ 1 1/ 1 m.ob. Red Crossbill 4/10 3/ 8 3/27 1/ 1 2/16 1/ 1 SCR Pine Siskin 1/ 3 1/ 3 1/15 1/ 1 1/ 1 2/16 1/ 1 m.ob. Lesser Goldfinch 1/ 3 1/ 3 1/ 7 1/11 1/ 1 1/19 1/ 1 SCR Lawrence's Goldfinch 4/ 3 4/13 4/ 5 4/ 3 1/ 3 WGB American Goldfinch 1/ 1 2/17 1/ 2 1/ 4 1/ 1 1/ 6 1/ 1 SCR,MMR Evening Grosbeak 1/ 1 1/ 1 SCR House Sparrow 1/ 1 1/18 1/ 1 1/ 3 1/ 1 1/ 3 1/ 1 m.ob. ========================================================================== This message was posted through the Stanford campus mailing list server. If you wish to unsubscribe from this mailing list, send the message body of "unsubscribe south-bay-birds" to [[email protected]] From [[email protected]] Fri Aug 01 10:03:09 1997 Subject: Bay Area Calendar Larry Tunstall has updated his Bay Area Birding Calendar for August 2-8. Kendric South Bay Birders Unlimited (SBBU) http://www-leland.stanford.edu/~kendric/birds/ ========================================================================== This message was posted through the Stanford campus mailing list server. If you wish to unsubscribe from this mailing list, send the message body of "unsubscribe south-bay-birds" to [[email protected]] From [[email protected]] Fri Aug 01 10:43:37 1997 Subject: Little Blue Heron The LITTLE BLUE HERON was in the southeast corner of Crittenden this a.m. between 9-10 in a flock of 400+ egrets. Lots of shorebirds came into the mudflats of Stevens Creek mitigation area during this period, but a number of folks scoping hard were unable to turn up the Curlew Sandpiper. The LEAST TERNS continue in large numbers, with more than 20 visible on boom and foraging both on the salt pond and Crittenden. -- Tom Grey Stanford CA [[email protected]] ========================================================================== This message was posted through the Stanford campus mailing list server. If you wish to unsubscribe from this mailing list, send the message body of "unsubscribe south-bay-birds" to [[email protected]] From [[email protected]] Fri Aug 01 11:28:23 1997 Subject: Little Blue Heron The adult little blue heron was persent in the southeast corner of Crittenton Marsh this morning about ten am,actively feeding with a flock of egrets. There were about 475 egrets in this end of the marsh. Twenty five to 30 least terns were on the yellow boom with more foraging over the marsh. The little blue heron was viewed from the dike on the north side of the marsh near the yellow boom. Several people, including AL Eisner, Tom Gray, Ed Frost and myself could not locate the curlew sandpiper in its previously reported locations. Jack Cole ========================================================================== This message was posted through the Stanford campus mailing list server. If you wish to unsubscribe from this mailing list, send the message body of "unsubscribe south-bay-birds" to [[email protected]] From [[email protected]] Sat Aug 02 10:25:33 1997 Subject: CCRS Today (Sat.) Hi all: I checked the waterbird pond at CCRS today (Aug 2) and saw at least 2 juv. Semi-palmated Sandpipers, a Baird's Sandpiper, 2 Lesser Yellowlegs, 27 Red-necked Phalaropes, and 6 Willets, in addition to the regular birds. _____________________________________________________________ Nick Lethaby Pronghorn Consulting [[email protected]] 1112 N. Abbott Avenue Tel: (408) 941 0223 Milpitas, CA 95035 U.S.A. ========================================================================== This message was posted through the Stanford campus mailing list server. If you wish to unsubscribe from this mailing list, send the message body of "unsubscribe south-bay-birds" to [[email protected]] From [[email protected]] Sat Aug 02 16:02:54 1997 Subject: Crittenden marsh - Saturday I checked out Crittenden Marsh today pretty thoroughly. The adult summer plumaged Pacific Golden Plover was in the SE Corner. A juvenile Semi-palmated Sandpiper was about half way along the south side. There were 65 Greater and 15 Lesser Yellowlegs. The salt pond to the north had 16 Least Terns. _____________________________________________________________ Nick Lethaby Pronghorn Consulting [[email protected]] 1112 N. Abbott Avenue Tel: (408) 941 0223 Milpitas, CA 95035 U.S.A. ========================================================================== This message was posted through the Stanford campus mailing list server. If you wish to unsubscribe from this mailing list, send the message body of "unsubscribe south-bay-birds" to [[email protected]] From [[email protected]] Sun Aug 03 19:11:28 1997 Subject: breeding RING-NECKED DUCKS All: Early this morning (3 August), I once again visited Calaveras Reservoir to look for breeding birds. Scoping primarily from Marsh Road near the SW corner of the lake, I was rewarded with the first breeding record of RING-NECKED DUCK in Santa Clara County, and apparently the first in California away from the far northern part of the state. Along with 4 adult males and 9 females (and/or full-grown immatures) was a brood of three half-grown young closely associated with a female along the south shore of the lake, east of the SW corner. These birds were foraging at the lake edge, apart from the other RNDU. The young were about 2/3-3/4 the length of the adult female but much smaller-bodied (less heavy). From the distance at which I was viewing them, I could not determine exactly how well grown the juvenal feathering was, but the birds looked as though they had extensive juvenile contour feathering (rather than down). Overall they appeared similar to the adult female, being dull, dark plain gray-brown all over (with no mottling or markings on the individual feathers) except for some lighter coloring on the foreface (creamy- white or pale buff, not pure white). There was a slight peak in the center of the crown of the young birds, although this peak was not as prominent as on the adults. Although I could barely see the pale eyering and postocular stripe, as well as the pale band on the bill, of the adult female, I was unable to see any such marks on the juveniles. Because of the distance involved in this sighting and the rarity of breeding RNDU in the Bay Area, it was important to confirm that the young were actually young RNDU rather than other plain brownish pochard-type ducks. Brood adoption or brood parasitism, which might result in young of another species following a female RNDU, would be unlikely in this case, although one of the contenders for the ID (Redhead) is a fairly common brood parasite (although a rare Bay Area breeder). All of the juvenile Lesser Scaup I've seen at Sunnyvale have had all-dark heads (not getting paler toward the bill), and I would not expect a half-grown Lesser Scaup to have pale feathering on the foreface. Also, juvenile scaup have darker, richer, less grayish-brown plumage overall than the Calaveras Reservoir birds. Finally, Lesser Scaup has not been recorded at Calaveras Reservoir this summer or any of the past 6-7 summers, so it would not be expected at that location (whereas Ring-necked Duck has oversummered here for several years). Based on overall coloration, particularly on the head, these juveniles were not scaup. Juvenile Redheads would probably be a little warmer brown overall (less grayish-brown) than these birds appeared and would be unlikely to have a peaked crown or to have paler feathering on the sides of the foreface. Redhead is a rare bird at Calaveras Reservoir in any season, and it would be especially rare in summer (I'm not aware of any summer records of Redhead from this lake). Although I've never seen half-grown young Redheads or Ring-necked Ducks, I am convinced that the birds were not young scaup. Their shape and plumage were not consistent with what I'd expect from young Redheads but were entirely consistent with what I'd expect from young Ring-necked Ducks. Add to that the fact that the young were following a female Ring-necked, and I won't hesitate to call this a Ring-necked Duck confirmation. Aechmophorus grebes were also busily engaged in breeding activities at Calaveras Reservoir. Forty-seven WESTERN GREBES (18 nests with apparently incubating birds and 4 more nests under construction), 1 CLARK'S GREBE apparently incubating on a nest, and 6 unidentified Aechmo. sp. were present at the south end of the lake. I watched the incubating Clark's Grebe for about 45 minutes while watching the young RNDU, but I never saw its mate approach the nest, so I don't know whether this bird's mate is a Clark's or a Western. Other birds at the lake included 10 WOOD DUCKS, 1 COMMON MERGANSER, 2 WILLETS, and 3 LAWRENCE'S GOLDFINCHES (1 along Calaveras Rd., 2 along Marsh Rd.). A quick check of the Calabazas Ponds and Palo Alto Baylands turned up nothing too unusual (7 BROWN PELICANS were over the bay off the yacht harbor). Other birds of interest seen recently include a migrating Passerina Bunting (Indigo/Lazuli) buzzing over Shoreline Park in Mountain View on 30 July, and on 24 July, 3 species of Aratinga parakeets (1 Blue-crowned, 8 Mitred, and 2 Wagler's/ White-eyed) at the church on Colorado Street in Palo Alto. Steve Rottenborn ========================================================================== This message was posted through the Stanford campus mailing list server. If you wish to unsubscribe from this mailing list, send the message body of "unsubscribe south-bay-birds" to [[email protected]] From [[email protected]] Mon Aug 04 15:03:35 1997 Subject: Santa Clara County List Mike Rogers has updated his Santa Clara County List as of August 1. Recent progress of the composite list: 263: 7/18/97 COSTA'S HUMMINGBIRD 264: 7/24/97 GOLDEN-PLOVER SP. 7/27/97 AMERICAN GOLDEN-PLOVER 265: 7/27/97 PACIFIC GOLDEN-PLOVER 266: 7/28/97 ELEGANT TERN 267: 7/30/97 PECTORAL SANDPIPER Kendric South Bay Birders Unlimited (SBBU) http://www-leland.stanford.edu/~kendric/birds/ ========================================================================== This message was posted through the Stanford campus mailing list server. If you wish to unsubscribe from this mailing list, send the message body of "unsubscribe south-bay-birds" to [[email protected]] From [[email protected]] Mon Aug 04 19:48:44 1997 Subject: SCVAS Ano (Ano) Nuevo Hi Everyone-- The SCVAS field trip to Ano Nuevo State Reserve went well, with 66 species seen or heard by at least one person in the group. Among many highlights, there were 2 juvenile American Bitterns practicing to be reeds at the Pond, many Red-necked Phalaropes on the pond and at Bight Beach, 3 Vaux's Swifts and a Sharp-shinned Hawk near the visitor center, 2 Marbled Murrelets off Cove Beach, 4 Marbled Murrelets offshore from the staging area, and 2 alternate-plumage Ruddy Turnstones and a Wandering Tattler at the northern seal viewing area. We missed Black Swift, perhaps due to high winds and lack of fog. Mark PS: My n-with-tilde isn't a standard character, so it may look wierd on your computer. ========================================================================== This message was posted through the Stanford campus mailing list server. If you wish to unsubscribe from this mailing list, send the message body of "unsubscribe south-bay-birds" to [[email protected]] From [[email protected]] Tue Aug 05 06:30:40 1997 Subject: Pacific Golden-Plover at SE Crittenden Marsh on 8/4/97 All: Yesterday after work I drove over to Crittenden Marsh (only about 1 mile away as a crow flies, further otherwise) to check on the Pacific Golden-Plover that was reported as late as 8/3/97 on the bird box (415) 681-7422 by Peter Metropolus. I reported the bird there as well since South-Bay-Birds is a select few. High tide seems to be the best time if you want to see it at this location. I viewed the bird between 3:45 and 4:15 PM. The breeding-plumaged bird was on the mud flat between the cattails and a stick in the mud to the north of there. At first a black blob caught my eye which later turned and began preening showing its narrow white band on each side of the throat and below its wing, dark face and belly, light golden tinge to back (which is difficult to see through heat waves). At one time the bird stretched its wings reveling its light gray underwing. (Black-bellieds have dark armpits.) The bird also seems to be injured; it was hopping on one foot. I wonder how much longer the bird will stick around. It was first discovered on 7/27/97 by Dick Norton and Jim Adbernathy visiting from Southern California to see the Curlew Sandpiper. Unfortunately the National Geographic has no illustration of a breeding-plumaged Pacific Golden-Plover; only the breeding-plumaged American Golden-Plover which has a wider white throat band is shown; however "Shorebirds, an Identification Guide" by Peter Hayman, John Marchant, and Tony Prater does show both species in breeding plumage. At about 6 PM I checked out the CCRS waterbird pond. Besides the numerous Wilson's Phalaropes (I did not numerically count them) there was nothing special to report...no Baird's and no Semi-palmated Sandpipers. Mike Feighner, [[email protected]], 7:26 AM ========================================================================== This message was posted through the Stanford campus mailing list server. If you wish to unsubscribe from this mailing list, send the message body of "unsubscribe south-bay-birds" to [[email protected]] From [[email protected]] Tue Aug 05 09:28:04 1997 Subject: new species All, Forgot to add the following paragraph to the last composite list: Well, we now have two new species for the cummulative Santa Clara County bird list. "Solitary Vireo" has been split into Blue-headed Vireo (eastern subspecies), Cassin's Vireo (western), and Plumbeous Vireo (Rocky Mtn/southwestern). All three have occurred in the county, with a Plumbeous Vireo spending time along Coyote Creek near Schallenberger and Oakland Roads from 10/25/83 to 11/26/83 and again on 10/13/84 and a Blue-headed Vireo along the Guadalupe River last fall on 11/28/96. Also, our old "Plain" Titmouse is now the "Oak" Titmouse, separate from the "Juniper" Titmouse of the interior. This brings the Santa Clara County list to 375, as noted in the recently distributed composite list. Mike ========================================================================== This message was posted through the Stanford campus mailing list server. If you wish to unsubscribe from this mailing list, send the message body of "unsubscribe south-bay-birds" to [[email protected]] From [[email protected]] Wed Aug 06 17:26:22 1997 Subject: Semipalmated Sandpiper Howdy South-Bay-Birders, Today, at about 4pm, Jolene Lange and I visited the CCRS Waterbird Pond to give it a quick look. Saw 1 juv. SEMIPALMATED SANDPIPER in with a mixed aggregation of WESTERN SANDPIPERS and WILSON'S PHALAROPES. There may have been other goodies around--there were lots of shorebirds down there--but we had limited time. Good birding-- John Mariani [[email protected]] ========================================================================== This message was posted through the Stanford campus mailing list server. If you wish to unsubscribe from this mailing list, send the message body of "unsubscribe south-bay-birds" to [[email protected]] From [[email protected]] Wed Aug 06 18:42:24 1997 Subject: BELCHER's GULL If this bird stays around, is anybody interested in teaming up to chase it over the weekend? Vivek [[email protected]] -------------------------------- RBA: San Diego: California: August 6, 1997 CASD9708:06 Birds Mentioned: BELCHER'S GULL Sooty Tern Gull-billed Tern Black Tern Common Tern A strange gull that was found on Sunday, the 3rd of August was correctly identified on the 5th as a sub-adult BELCHER'S GULL (formally known as Band-tailed Gull). The bird is being seen at the mouth of the Tijuana River, south of Imperial Beach. To reach the area, take Interstate 5 south to the Coronado Ave. exit in Imperial Beach. Turn right (heading west). Coronado Ave. turns into Imperial Beach Blvd., continue west until you reach the last street at the beach, called Seacoast Blvd.. Turn left, and drive to the deadend and park. Walk south (toward the U.S./Mexican border) along the beach about 1 mile to the rivermouth. STAY OFF of the Sanddunes, and once you reach the rivermouth, stay off of the flat area, as this is a Snowy Plover/Least Tern nesting area, and there are still some chicks around. The Belcher's was not seen on the morning of the 6th, but it thought to be an afternoon bird. It was present on the sandbars of the inside portion of the rivermouth from11:30 p.m. to 7:30 p.m. on the 5th, when it flew off to the north to probably roost on South San Diego Bay. 15 plus COMMON TERNS,2 BLACK TERNS and a just fledged GULL-BILLED TERN were present the Tijuana Rivermouth also on the 6th. 1 BLACK TERN was seen on the 4th at the Santa Margarita Rivermouth, just north of Oceanside. 1 BLACK TERN was also present at Agua Hedonia (sp?) in Carlsbad on the 4th. 1 SOOTY TERN was reported at the South end of San Diego Bay on the 1st. It was seen along the Silver Strand, which separates Coronado and Imperial Beach, This would represent the 3rd Sooty of the season in San Diego County. ========================================================================== This message was posted through the Stanford campus mailing list server. If you wish to unsubscribe from this mailing list, send the message body of "unsubscribe south-bay-birds" to [[email protected]] From [[email protected]] Thu Aug 07 15:57:53 1997 Subject: Birding Event: California Fall Challenge Dear South Bay Birders, The San Francisco Bay Bird Observatory is sponsoring a statewide birding competition. The California Fall Challenge will take place at the peak of Fall Migration, from September 12-26, 1997. The competition will be divided up in three ways. 1) The team that observes the highest percentage of their county's "normally occurring" species list*. 2) The team with the highest number of 'rare' species*. 3) The team with the greatest fundraising effort. We have divided this competition up in such a way that most counties in the state can compete on relatively equal footing in the first two categories. In the first category, lesser known, less birded counties with lower species lists will be more advantageous to compete in. In the second category, well birded counties with higher numbers of migrant 'traps' will be more advantageous to compete in. We hope that teams of birders will venture into California's lesser known counties and add to our knowledge of fall bird distribution. We also hope that it increase awareness of the variety of habitats that are found in this state. Above all, we hope to provide the California birding community with an enjoyable activity/ competition. I would like to invite everyone to participate. We are requesting a donation of $25 for the first county birded and $10 for each additional county per person. In return for this donation you will become a member of the San Francisco Bay Bird Observatory and receive an event T-shirt. All participants are invited to our annual meeting to be held on September 27th in Alviso. All winners will be announced at this event (you need not be present to claim a prize). Additionally, the results will be published, by county, in the Fall issue of 'The Stilt' (SFBBO's newsletter). For complete rules and information please send your name, address, phone number, e-mail address, and the county(ies) you wish to compete in to: [[email protected]] or SFBBO: Attn Fall Challenge P.O. Box 247 Alviso, CA 95002 (408) 946-6548 *County Lists have been complied from a variety of sources by John Sterling and are being used as the event's 'Official Fall Challenge County Lists'. Within these lists are designations, to be used for the purpose of competition, for "normally occurring" and "rare" species. We acknowledge ahead of time that these lists are by no means perfect, which some of you may find fault with, and may be controversial. However, we have a mechanism in place which will allow comments and corrections to be made to the these lists for next year's competition. With your help these lists will increase in accuracy and will hopefully substantially contribute to efforts to generate 'Official County Lists' for California. Our primary purpose is to provide a fun competition for California's birding community. Thank you for you time & Good Birding! Tom ************************************************* Tom Ryan San Francisco Bay Bird Observatory (408) 946-6548 P.O. Box 247 (408) 946-9279 fax 1290 Hope St. [[email protected]] Alviso, CA 95002 "While in my own estimation my chief profession is ignorance, yet I sign my passport applications and my jury evasions as Ornithologist." - William Beebe ========================================================================== This message was posted through the Stanford campus mailing list server. If you wish to unsubscribe from this mailing list, send the message body of "unsubscribe south-bay-birds" to [[email protected]] From [[email protected]] Thu Aug 07 20:34:30 1997 Subject: American Redstart All: This morning (7 Aug.) I saw a second-fall male AMERICAN REDSTART along Coyote Creek while conducting a bird survey. To reach the bird from Hwy. 101 in San Jose, take Oakland Road east, and just after crossing over Coyote Creek, turn right into the San Jose Municipal Golf Course. Drive to the first parking lot (on your left), park, and walk across the road toward the green of the hole there (it's the first hole on your right as you drive in). The bird was in willows in the section of riparian vegetation that comes very close to the road on the north side of the green. The bird was calling occasionally, but was otherwise inconspicuous. It was ostensibly in definitive plumage, but the orange patches on the sides were dull and paler than on an adult, there was a bit of pale mottling on the black breast, and the primaries were obviously duller and more brownish than the jet black tertials and upper-secondary coverts. Also here were a YELLOW WARBLER, 4 BLACK-CHINNED HUMMING- BIRDS, and a pair of worn, molting adult HUTTON'S VIREOS. The HUVI, quite rare in the cottonwood-willow riparian forests on the valley floor, were in the exact same location where I had a pair breeding in 1995. Incidentally, there are no oaks (with which this species is usually associated) at all in this reach of riparian habitat. We've moved from Stanford to Santa Clara, and our new phone number is 408-260-0914. Steve Rottenborn ========================================================================== This message was posted through the Stanford campus mailing list server. If you wish to unsubscribe from this mailing list, send the message body of "unsubscribe south-bay-birds" to [[email protected]] From [[email protected]] Fri Aug 08 07:25:44 1997 Subject: LETE All: Yesterday, 8/7/97, on my bike commute home I saw four immature LEAST TERNS that had joined the flock of Forster's Terns and Snowy Egrets foraging on the algae mats that the wind has driven onto the south side of Salt Pond A1 in Mountain View. It appears that there are small fish in and at the edge of these mats. Bill ========================================================================== This message was posted through the Stanford campus mailing list server. If you wish to unsubscribe from this mailing list, send the message body of "unsubscribe south-bay-birds" to [[email protected]] From [[email protected]] Fri Aug 08 13:11:12 1997 All, At 12:20pm today 8/8/97, after only searching for a few minutes, I was lucky enough to relocate Steve's 1-year-old AMERICAN REDSTART at the San Jose Golf Course along Coyote Creek at Oakland Road. The bird was foraging in the willows just off the entrance road to the golf course about 50 yards before the banner over the road near the first (left) parking lot. The lower breast, belly, and undertail of the bird are still white. It is molting in the outer two pairs of tail feathers (and was preening out a lot of wing lining down) and will probably hang around for while. Also heard one of the HUTTON'S VIREOS here as well. Note that there is a homeless "tent city" along the creek here and you may not want to bird the area alone. Mike ========================================================================== This message was posted through the Stanford campus mailing list server. If you wish to unsubscribe from this mailing list, send the message body of "unsubscribe south-bay-birds" to [[email protected]] From [[email protected]] Sat Aug 09 04:21:04 1997 Subject: Dumbarton Driving west over the Dumbarton yesterday afternoon, I noticed a lot of shorebirds along the north waterfront on the east side, so I pulled off and checked between the span and the KGO transmitter. Besides standards for the locale, there were good numbers of RED TURNSTONES (one still in full alternate plumage) and SANDERLINGS, and offshore a couple of hundred PHALAROPES both RED-NECKED & WILSON'S. -- Tom Grey Stanford CA [[email protected]] ========================================================================== This message was posted through the Stanford campus mailing list server. If you wish to unsubscribe from this mailing list, send the message body of "unsubscribe south-bay-birds" to [[email protected]] From [[email protected]] Sat Aug 09 09:13:48 1997 Subject: Yosemite - Blue Grouse, GGOW? Barbara and I spent the last three days in Yosemite for a mixed birding and sightseeing visit, staying at the Wawona. The old Victorian pile was quite comfortable, even in the hottest weather and without air conditioning. Fans work fine; food OK; retro atmosphere charming. I hadn't been back to Yosemite since I started birding five years ago, the crowds being the main deterrent. On this trip, we found that by avoiding the floor of the valley and hitting popular spots early, you can still have a great visit, even in August at the height of the season. We got to Big Oak Flat gate mid-aft on Tues, and stopped off at Crane Meadow for a birding quickie on the way to the hotel. Saw first of several empids, this one silent but looking enough like a PACIFIC-SLOPE FLYCATCHER with its teardrop eye-ring for me to count as such. Underparts pretty yellow, though that is true of Hammond's too at this time of yr. Also saw year NASHVILLE WARBLERS, first of many, BROWN CREEPER, WILSON'S WARBLERS. Stopped at Bridalveil Falls on the way to Wawona - no swifts, lots of people, but it's still possible to put the crowd in the background and trance out watching the everchanging pattern of the water as it spills over the valley edge. Next morning we headed early toward Glacier Pt to beat the crowds. This is a great idea, as we had it almost to ourselves at about 7 am. Question: is this the best view, or is Washburn Pt, or top of Sentinel Dome? I decided one of the others, even though you can't see the valley floor from them. The trouble with seeing the valley floor from above is that you can see all too clearly what H. sap. has done to it. And birdwise, guess what? A female BLUE GROUSE with two young was wandering around right off the path to the viewpoint, that's the path a million visitors a year take, clucking like chickens in Aunt Martha's barnyard! >From there to Sentinel Dome by way of a short view stop at Washburn Pt. Ok, For the best view, my vote goes to the top of the Dome with its 360 degree panorama, but maybe that's influenced by the fact it takes some effort to get there. (So that should make Cloud's Rest better I guess. That's another story - a friend and I were going to hike up there with an overnight stop many years ago, but a bear ate all our food while we were sleeping, and we wussily decided the hike up and back on an empty stomach was not for us. But I digress.) Oh, birds - along the way to Sentinel Dome, more NASHVILLE WARBLERS, plus the omnipresent WILSON'S and AUDUBON'S, and a CHIPPING SPARROW. Not at all too many people on the trail or up on the dome. On to Bridalveil Campground. Along the trail to Westfall Meadows (never quite got there - the small meadow along the way was very productive), CASSIN'S VIREO, MACGILLIVAY'S WARBLER, HERMIT WARBLER, HAMMOND'S FLYCATCHER (my only fairly sure empid ID of the trip - a nice little "keek" call while I was watching), and a juvenile RED-BREASTED SAPSUCKER, with red feathers half-molted in on the head. (It did look exactly like the juvenile Red-naped pictured in the NGS Guide, but I assume Red-breasted juveniles in their "briefly held" plumage look the same.) No other people at all! (By the way, that Sapsucker was THE ONLY WOODPECKER I saw the whole three days.) Rest of the day, Mariposa Grove - no birds to mention. Tram ride up a hideous experience, jammed in with diesel fumes, crying kids, and a would-be humourous spiel from our driver. Walk down was great; few people on the trail in the Upper Grove, and - some trees! Next day, I went off to Tioga Rd and Mono Lake, while Barbara stayed at the Wawona to do an advertised morning bird walk there and read and relax for the rest of the day. I would recommend starting very early with a full tank and drive straight to Mono, then work your way back. I was handicapped by not quite enough gas to get me over the road, so had to bird the Crane Flat end (White Wolf and Siesta Lake) until 8 when the gas station opened. Good views of HERMIT WARBLERS at White Wolf, but otherwise nothing notable. Gorgeous morning, though, and I had Siesta Lake all to myself. Then on to Tioga Pass, where I decided to hike part way up the Mt. Dana trail in search of Rosy Finches. No luck on that, though I heard an unfamiliar call that sounded something like the "cheeew" described in the book - turned out to be the begging call of juvenile juncos. But anyway a magnificent scene, with profusion of blue lupine, Indian paintbrush, and yellow monkey-flowers on the slope. Lord, is that trail steep! Not altogether prudent 8 weeks after knee surgery - still definitely worth it for the view - gorgeous warm weather at 11000 on a day when it reached 100 in the Valley. CLARK'S NUTCRACKERS good company up there along with the omnipresent juncos and chickadees, and one robin with altitude attitude. Tried Ellery Lake and Green Bridge on way down (and then later back) for Rosies, but no luck. Basin floor past midday - hot! Dirt rd off 395 2 mis south of Lee Vining (thanks, Nick Lethaby) big flock of BREWER'S SPARROWS. Pine grove past south Tufa, no Pinyon Jays, but MOUNTAIN QUAIL (heard only, of course), plus a LEWIS'S WOODPECKER and a WESTERN KINGBIRD. At South Tufa, GREEN-TAILED TOWHEE but I dipped on Sage Sparrows and Sage Thrashers - lotsa Savannahs. An OSPREY overflew the lake - unclear on the concept? (no fish in Mono). North end, at county park, lake birds: both PHALAROPES, EARED GREBES, and of course more juvenile CALIFORNIA GULLS than I'd ever seen before. This is a nice marshy spot but it lacks the true Mono weirdness (and the sagebrush birds) of the south Tufa. I decided it was too late and I was too tired to drive to Bodie. Back to Wawona (with viewy but unbirdy stops, incl Olmsted Pt, along the way) to find that Barbara's birdwalk, led by one of the Wawona cottage locals who spends every summer there, had been very nice, a few feet from our veranda. We recapitulated it the next morning. Go to the north end of the golf course and check the river for the next 100 yards or so downstream. EVENING GROSBEAKS, AMERICAN DIPPER with young, WHITE-HEADED WOODPECKER (B saw it on her walk) also standard birds incl KINGFISHER pair, HOUSE WREN, CASSIN'S FINCH, WILSON'S WARBLERs, singing OLIVE-SIDED FLYCATCHER, and one more unidentified Empid. Incredible show as WESTERN WOOD-PEWEE pair defended not-quite-fledged young bird (fallen from nest?) on ground under tree from Steller's Jays. The defense was successful as long as we watched. OK, now the payoff for those who have read this far. The woman who led the walk the day before told Barbara there is a GREAT GRAY OWL in the Wamona meadow vicinity (this is lower than any summer location given in Gaines's book, for what it's worth), and that it regularly visits the small "Galen Clark cabin meadow." To find this, go to the north end of the golf course, walk west along the edge of the fairway until you come to a sign noting the meadow. It is a few yards in through the trees to the north, and is marked by four young (century old) sequoias and several apple trees planted by Galen Clark, the first guardian of the Yosemite grant in the 1860's. His cabin was here. We checked the meadow at dusk Thurs, and before sunrise Fri morning, no success. Then we went down to the river to look for the Dippers. Barbara said she was going back for one more look (this, my semi-birding spouse!) but I stayed, because it seemed too late and that damned knee was hurting from the Mt Dana excesses of the day before). Well, bad decision. Barbara heard a deep, single-note call, and heading toward it she flushed "a large owl" at the edge of the little meadow, and saw it fly low away from her into the woods. She came and got me but we couldn't relocate it. Make what you will of that. Anyway, we had a great time, even though the park was pretty much full for the three days we were there. -- Tom Grey Stanford CA [[email protected]] ========================================================================== This message was posted through the Stanford campus mailing list server. If you wish to unsubscribe from this mailing list, send the message body of "unsubscribe south-bay-birds" to [[email protected]] From [[email protected]] Sat Aug 09 09:26:22 1997 Subject: SBBU Home Page update Larry Tunstall has updated his Bay Area Birding Calendar for August 9-15. I have also added links to the Stanford/Palo Alto User Groups for the Macintosh and for the PC, in case you need help with your computer. Kendric South Bay Birders Unlimited (SBBU) http://www-leland.stanford.edu/~kendric/birds/ ========================================================================== This message was posted through the Stanford campus mailing list server. If you wish to unsubscribe from this mailing list, send the message body of "unsubscribe south-bay-birds" to [[email protected]] From [[email protected]] Sat Aug 09 11:26:48 1997 Subject: Dumbarton (fwd) Oops, of course that's RUDDY TURNSTONES. "Driving west over the Dumbarton yesterday afternoon...there were good numbers of RED TURNSTONES..," -- Tom Grey Stanford CA [[email protected]] ========================================================================== This message was posted through the Stanford campus mailing list server. If you wish to unsubscribe from this mailing list, send the message body of "unsubscribe south-bay-birds" to [[email protected]] ========================================================================== This message was posted through the Stanford campus mailing list server. If you wish to unsubscribe from this mailing list, send the message body of "unsubscribe south-bay-birds" to [[email protected]] From [[email protected]] Sun Aug 10 12:01:04 1997 Subject: Sunday birds The male AMERICAN REDSTART was at the SJ Muni Golf course, right where earlier reported by Steve and Mike R - excellent views. Also a YELLOW WARBLER. At Casey Forebay, two LESSER YELLOWLEGS, a single SEMIPALMATED PLOVER, a lot of down-from-the-hills VIOLET-GREEN SWALLOWS, and a good number of newly arrived GREEN-WINGED TEAL. In Adobe Creek, about 100 yds upstream from the Forebay pumphouse, a male RED BISHOP. In Matadero Creek, at the traditional spot (the second pump) another male RED BISHOP. (Same one?) -- Tom Grey Stanford CA [[email protected]] ========================================================================== This message was posted through the Stanford campus mailing list server. If you wish to unsubscribe from this mailing list, send the message body of "unsubscribe south-bay-birds" to [[email protected]] From [[email protected]] Mon Aug 11 09:23:37 1997 Subject: American Redstart Refound the AMERICAN REDSTART that Steve R. found on Thursday. The bird was iun the willows at the entrance to the "trail" into the riparian area north of the practice hole at the San Jose Municipal Golf Course. As per Mike R.'s warning, there are at least 2 homeless encampments in this area. I stayed up on the grass bordering the road and could look down into the creek area. I found the bird at 9:20 in the willows, lost it and then refound it at 9:30 in the first large cottonwood to the north of the willows. It was silent and not doing any tail-flicking. Also saw 1 BLACK-CHIN HUMMINGBIRD feeding in one of the blooming eucalyptuses across the street and 3-5 WILSON"S WARBLERS. Kathy Parker ========================================================================== This message was posted through the Stanford campus mailing list server. If you wish to unsubscribe from this mailing list, send the message body of "unsubscribe south-bay-birds" to [[email protected]] From [[email protected]] Mon Aug 11 10:37:24 1997 Subject: Re:more birds. Al Jaramillo wrote: > A real surprise was locating one adult PECTORAL SANDPIPER, an early date.= = I just returned from two weeks back in the midwest, where adult Pectoral Sandpipers are already moving through. I don't think Al's date is early for= an ADULT Pectoral, which are quite rare out here. The later movement of Pector= als out here is mostly due to the fact that they are primarily juveniles, which= typically migrate later than adults, and which tends to be true for most shorebirds. Mike Mammoser ========================================================================== This message was posted through the Stanford campus mailing list server. If you wish to unsubscribe from this mailing list, send the message body of "unsubscribe south-bay-birds" to [[email protected]] From [[email protected]] Tue Aug 12 07:40:59 1997 Subject: American Redstart still around at SJM Golf Course All: After three unsuccessful tries to find the year-old male AMERICAN RESTART that Steve Rottenborn discovered on 7 August I finally found the bird this morning at 7:25 AM after a 45-minute search. The bird was in the same area that others have described in earlier messages. The bird was very close to the homeless camp. Earlier I had heard what later turned out to be the much sought-after bird near the trail to the camp. Later I heard the same call to the right of the trail to the camp and a few feet in past a deluge of garbage and trash in one of the taller willows. I watched the bird call and move around the upper branches of this taller willow for about 5 minutes. The bird was still visible when I left. To reach this area from US 101 (which in this part of town goes directly east-west ) take Oakland Road north past Coyote Creek and turn right (east) into the golf course and follow the entrance road to the first parking lot on the left and park. Cross the road and head back to the west end of the golf course where you will have already driven past and search for the bird in this area....as an alternate you could take Brokow Road east from I-880 and turn right (south) onto Oakland Road and turn into the golf course before Coyote Creek. Mike Feighner, Livermore, CA, [[email protected]] ========================================================================== This message was posted through the Stanford campus mailing list server. If you wish to unsubscribe from this mailing list, send the message body of "unsubscribe south-bay-birds" to [[email protected]] From [[email protected]] Tue Aug 12 13:26:16 1997 Subject: Chasing the Belcher's Gull If anyone is interested in going down to San Diego this weekend to see this bird, please contact me. I'm not sure I'll go, but I am considering it. _____________________________________________________________ Nick Lethaby Pronghorn Consulting [[email protected]] 1112 N. Abbott Avenue Tel: (408) 941 0223 Milpitas, CA 95035 U.S.A. ========================================================================== This message was posted through the Stanford campus mailing list server. If you wish to unsubscribe from this mailing list, send the message body of "unsubscribe south-bay-birds" to [[email protected]] From [[email protected]] Wed Aug 13 06:44:40 1997 Subject: BAIRD'S SANDPIPER All: Having listened to Steve Rottenborn's bird-box report early this morning...yes, Steve refound the CURLEW SANDPIPER at the SE corner of Crittenden Marsh yesterday evening....I was especially interested in the two BAIRD'S SANDPIPERs and the SEMI-PALMATED SANDPIPER Steve also reported in the pond near the intersection of Grand Blvd. and Los Esteros Road in Alviso. So, I stopped off there this morning on the way to work. The pond I think where Steve had the sandpipers is directly south of the intersection of Spreckles and Grand. This would put the pond south-west of the intersection of Grand Blvd. and Los Esteros Road. There was absolutely no life at this pond. So, I headed north along Spreckles and checked the pond opposite State Street and Spreckles. Here there was a lot of activity, a lot of Westerns and Leasts, Red-necked Phalaropes, Semi-palmated Plovers, and others, but no Barid's or Semi-palmated. About to throw in the towel, I headed back to the car and decided to take another look at the "lifeless" pond which now had two birds on it: one LEAST SANDPIPER and one BAIRD'S SANDPIPER whose breast had a buffy appearance and whose wings extended beyond the tail. This was at 6:50 this morning. Mike Feighner, Livermore, CA, [[email protected]] ========================================================================== This message was posted through the Stanford campus mailing list server. If you wish to unsubscribe from this mailing list, send the message body of "unsubscribe south-bay-birds" to [[email protected]] From [[email protected]] Wed Aug 13 08:35:19 1997 Subject: SESA/BASA All, Up until 6:40pm last night, both the juvenile SEMIPALMATED SANDPIPER and one of the juvenile BAIRD'S SANDPIPERS were in the small pond south of the junction of Los Esteros, Grand, and Spreckles, which, despite what Mike Feighner reported, is actually just southEAST of the intersection of Spreckles and Grand as Steve reported on the BirdBox. Mike Rogers ========================================================================== This message was posted through the Stanford campus mailing list server. If you wish to unsubscribe from this mailing list, send the message body of "unsubscribe south-bay-birds" to [[email protected]] From [[email protected]] Wed Aug 13 14:26:27 1997 Subject: Osprey My son John, who 's knowledge of birds was drummed into him when he was young and couldn't object, reports an osprey at Coyote Reservoir on 8-12. The Baird's sandpiper was still in the pond at the corner of Grand and Spreckles in Alviso between 1:30 and 2 pm today, Wednesday. (That gives me both Baird's birds within four weeks). Jack Cole ========================================================================== This message was posted through the Stanford campus mailing list server. If you wish to unsubscribe from this mailing list, send the message body of "unsubscribe south-bay-birds" to [[email protected]] From [[email protected]] Wed Aug 13 19:07:40 1997 Subject: Baird's Sandpiper As of 7:30 PM tonight, the BAIRD'S SANDPIPER was still in the small pond southeast of the intersection of Spreckles and Grand in Alviso. Also in the pond was 1 SEMIPALMATED SANDPIPER. There may have been 2 but the nervous Killdeer flushed all and I lost sight of the bird I was just starting to look at. Most of the birds, including the Baird's, returned to the pond. Kathy Parker ========================================================================== This message was posted through the Stanford campus mailing list server. If you wish to unsubscribe from this mailing list, send the message body of "unsubscribe south-bay-birds" to [[email protected]] From [[email protected]] Thu Aug 14 08:33:04 1997 Subject: Bay Area Calendar Larry Tunstall has updated his Bay Area Birding Calendar for August 16-22. Kendric South Bay Birders Unlimited (SBBU) http://www-leland.stanford.edu/~kendric/birds/ ========================================================================== This message was posted through the Stanford campus mailing list server. If you wish to unsubscribe from this mailing list, send the message body of "unsubscribe south-bay-birds" to [[email protected]] From [[email protected]] Thu Aug 14 15:32:42 1997 Subject: ADDRESS CHANGE All, Please note that our e-mail address has changed as of this week. Our old address {[[email protected]]} will no longer reach us. Our new address is <[[email protected]]>. Thanks for all the cool birding reports...this list keeps me abreast of the best of local bird happenings and lets me seem (!) knowledgeable when fielding requests from the public. ========================================================================== This message was posted through the Stanford campus mailing list server. If you wish to unsubscribe from this mailing list, send the message body of "unsubscribe south-bay-birds" to [[email protected]] From [[email protected]] Fri Aug 15 11:43:24 1997 Subject: For Peter Latourrete Only Hi Peter: I lost your e-mail address. I just wanted to tell you that your photos arrives OK in the UK. I will get a draft of the article from the magazine in the next couple of months. Regards, Nick _____________________________________________________________ Nick Lethaby Pronghorn Consulting [[email protected]] 1112 N. Abbott Avenue Tel: (408) 941 0223 Milpitas, CA 95035 U.S.A. ========================================================================== This message was posted through the Stanford campus mailing list server. If you wish to unsubscribe from this mailing list, send the message body of "unsubscribe south-bay-birds" to [[email protected]] From [[email protected]] Fri Aug 15 12:50:40 1997 Subject: Bairds hello all the Bairds Sandpiper was still in the small pond south of the junction of Los Esteros, Grand, and Spreckles in Alviso at noon today. It was foraging with a mixed flock of Least and Western Sandpipers. I did not see the Semipalmated Sandpiper, however I did not have much time to look either. I also saw 2 Cattle Egrets riding the backs of horses in the nearby ranch yesterday. Alan W. ========================================================================== This message was posted through the Stanford campus mailing list server. If you wish to unsubscribe from this mailing list, send the message body of "unsubscribe south-bay-birds" to [[email protected]] From [[email protected]] Sat Aug 16 12:23:32 1997 Subject: Alviso & Crittenden marsh The Baird's Sandpiper and Semi-palmated Sandpiper were at small pond SE of Spreckles and Grand today. Another Semi-palmated Sandpiper was at Crittenden Marsh. The Curlew Sandpiper was not seen, at least prior to 12 pm. _____________________________________________________________ Nick Lethaby Pronghorn Consulting [[email protected]] 1112 N. Abbott Avenue Tel: (408) 941 0223 Milpitas, CA 95035 U.S.A. ========================================================================== This message was posted through the Stanford campus mailing list server. If you wish to unsubscribe from this mailing list, send the message body of "unsubscribe south-bay-birds" to [[email protected]] From [[email protected]] Sun Aug 17 21:17:07 1997 Subject: last week's birds All: On 10 Aug., along Silver Creek near Lake Cunningham, I saw two female/imm. LAZULI BUNTINGS (obviously migrants) and a LOGGERHEAD SHRIKE picking at the corpse of a LESSER GOLDFINCH, which was suspended by its head from the crotch of a willow. On 12 Aug., an injured, banded PEREGRINE FALCON was found at the Sunnyvale WPCP and was eventually delivered (at the suggestion of USFWS) to Brian Latta at U.C. Santa Cruz, who had banded the bird on 26 May 1994; when banded, the bird was a nestling on "the Maguire Peaks" in Sunol Regional Park. Also on the 12th, I saw a juvenile SEMIPALMATED SANDPIPER (fairly long-billed compared to others I've seen this fall) and two juvenile BAIRD'S SANDPIPERS in the small pond inside the fence at Arzino Ranch just SE of where Spreckles Rd., Grand Blvd., and Los Esteros Rd. meet. That evening, I did a little birding around the Sunnyvale WPCP and the salt ponds between there and Stevens Creek. Highlights included 2 basic-plumaged adult SANDERLINGS and 43 LEAST TERNS (about 14 adults) in A3N, and the adult CURLEW SANDPIPER, 17 LESSER YELLOWLEGS, and 58 GREATER YELLOWLEGS in Crittenden Marsh. I only got distant views of the CUSA, but it appeared that the bird was in mostly basic plumage with what appeared to be a few lower alternate scapulars (although these were not present when I got much better views a few days later). On 13 Aug., I conducted surveys for Clapper Rail habitat around some PG&E towers in the South Bay. Ponds in Newark on the Alameda County side of Coyote Slough had 4 juv. BAIRD'S SANDPIPERS and an injured second-summer HERRING GULL. The salt ponds in the vicinity of the old Knapp Property in Alviso (not open to the public) had 2 PEREGRINE FALCONS (1 ad., 1 juv.), 1 SNOWY PLOVER, 1400 WILSON'S and 2350 RED-NECKED PHALAROPES, 1 juv. BAIRD'S SANDPIPER, and 84 CASPIAN TERNS (80 adults). The large pond at the Sunnyvale WPCP had 640 RED-NECKED and 190 WILSON'S PHALAROPES, while pond A3N had two alternate-plumaged RUDDY TURNSTONES and 28 LEAST TERNS. One juvenile BAIRD'S SANDPIPER was still in the pond SE of the intersection of Grand, Los Esteros, and Spreckles in Alviso. On 14 Aug., I conducted surveys along Coyote Creek between Capitol Expwy. and Tully Road in San Jose. Highlights included 22 BLACK-CHINNED HUMMINGBIRDS (as opposed to 4 SELASPHORUS and 73 ANNA'S) and an imm. CHIPPING SPARROW. Migrants included 1 SWAINSON'S THRUSH, 5 WESTERN TANAGERS, and a WILSON'S WARBLER, while counts of only 1 BLACK-HEADED GROSBEAK, 3 PACIFIC-SLOPE FLYCATCHERS, and no YELLOW WARBLERS seemed unusually low. This reach of Coyote Creek supports a few resident species that are quite rare as breeders on the valley floor. On the 14th, I saw a WRENTIT (I never recorded this species along lower Coyote Creek during my extensive surveys over the past few years), a HAIRY WOODPECKER, 2 CALIFORNIA THRASHERS, 2 CALIFORNIA QUAIL, the feathers of a WESTERN SCREECH-OWL, a STELLER'S JAY, and two family groups of DARK-EYED JUNCOS, all of which are unusual elsewhere along lower Coyote Creek. There was also a free-flying COCKATIEL here. On 15 Aug., Scott and Linda Terrill and I saw the CURLEW SANDPIPER in the Stevens Creek mitigation area across the creek from Crittenden Marsh. We enjoyed good looks at the bird. The bird was in heavy molt and had a number of missing scapulars and greater and median coverts. Also, it appeared to have no tertials at all, and between the older, more worn outer 5 primaries and fresh inner primaries on each wing was a gap created by the absence/regrowth of two or so primaries. All the feathering present on the bird's head and body appeared to be basic feathering except for two rows of worn older, darker marginal wing coverts, a single black spot on the left side of the vent, a few orangish feathers on the lower breast, and a single orange feather near the left thigh. Because no alternate scapulars were present, these feathers had either been dropped since I saw the bird on 12 August or on 12 August I mistook gaps in the rear scapulars and greater/median coverts (through which the flight feathers could be seen) for alternate scapulars. On 17 Aug., there was a CANARY-WINGED PARAKEET (Brotogeris versicolurus, with white secondaries and yellow greater secondary coverts) flying along I-280 near Stevens Creek Blvd. in Santa Clara. This is the first time I've seen a parakeet of this genus in the South Bay. Steve Rottenborn P.S. Sorry for the delay in sending these records, but I don't have email access at home yet (I have to go to Stanford to log on). ========================================================================== This message was posted through the Stanford campus mailing list server. If you wish to unsubscribe from this mailing list, send the message body of "unsubscribe south-bay-birds" to [[email protected]] From [[email protected]] Mon Aug 18 08:01:48 1997 Subject: Shorebirds Hi, birders: Early Saturday I saw the Baird's Sandpiper just southeast of the intersec- tion of Grand and Spreckels in Alviso, but missed the Semi. S. After Nick Lethaby told me he had seen it, I tried again around 4 PM, and this time saw a Semipalmated Sandpiper there (as well as the Baird's again). This one had quite a short bill - does that match the one you saw, Nick? It stretched its wings several times, and then flew off by itself toward the east (across the RR tracks, on the north side of the EEC entrance road). Also on Saturday afternoon there was a juv. Baird's Sandpiper at the CCRS pond. And a high count of 4 Lesser Yellowlegs at Grand/Spreckels. Back at that latter location on Sunday afternoon: now 2 juv. Baird's present, but no sign of a Semi. S. Al Eisner ========================================================================== This message was posted through the Stanford campus mailing list server. If you wish to unsubscribe from this mailing list, send the message body of "unsubscribe south-bay-birds" to [[email protected]] From [[email protected]] Mon Aug 18 09:54:37 1997 Subject: birds After two failed weekday attempts at the San Jose Municipal Golf Course, I w= ent there Saturday morning, 16 Aug 97, and finally found the male AMERICAN REDS= TART. It was in a boxelder tree right at the side of the entrance road at the poi= nt where the riparian vegetation turns away from the road. After that I stopped by the pond in Alviso at the junction of Spreckles and= Grand, where Al Eisner and I watched the juvenile BAIRD'S SANDPIPER. We had= no luck finding the reported Semipalmated Sandpiper though. A quick check of t= he waterbird pond at CCRS produced nothing unusual. Then we both headed to Crittenden Marsh, where we watched numerous shorebir= ds on the tidal pond west of Stevens Creek, hoping that the Curlew Sandpiper woul= d show up. After some time, I went over the bridge and checked Crittenden Mar= sh, which also had numerous shorebirds. The CUSA, however, never made an appear= ance. There were two VAUX'S SWIFTS flying overhead with the swallows, though. On Sunday, 17 Aug 97, I started out at the CCRS waterbird pond. A PIED-BILLED GREBE on the delta had one small chick. Many shorebirds were on the pond including 6 LESSER YELLOWLEGS, a handful of WILSON'S PHALAROPES, and a sing= le RED-NECKED PHALAROPE. Two fem/imm YELLOW WARBLERS were in the vegetation al= ong the pond, most likely migrants. Five SANDERLINGS flew by, low overhead, hea= ding towards the south. The marsh next to the methane plant had a SPOTTED SANDPI= PER along one of the channels. A quick stop at Alviso produced 2 juvenile BAIRD'S SANDPIPERS in the pond a= t the junction of Spreckles and Grand, and a single CATTLE EGRET in the pasture o= f Arzino Ranch. Another quick stop, this time at Calabazas Marsh, produced a few LESSER YELLOWLEGS and a CASPIAN TERN among the regulars. I arrived at Crittenden Marsh at about the peak of high tide, when all the = CUSA hunters were leaving. A number of VIOLET-GREEN SWALLOWS were flying with th= e BARNS this day. As I walked along the levee on the north side of the marsh,= 3 BLACK TURNSTONES flew by and landed in the marsh amidst the AVOCETS. They only remained about 5 minutes before taking off. Mike Mammoser ========================================================================== This message was posted through the Stanford campus mailing list server. If you wish to unsubscribe from this mailing list, send the message body of "unsubscribe south-bay-birds" to [[email protected]] From [[email protected]] Mon Aug 18 11:21:27 1997 Subject: Speckles and Grand Hi Everyone-- On Sunday afternoon I visited the pond at Spreckles and Grand in Alviso. Two BAIRD'S SANDPIPERS were in evidence the entire time (sometimes calling in flight), with small numbers of LEAST and WESTERN SANDPIPERS coming and going. At the time of Al Eisner's visit, there was no sign of a Semipalmated. At around 5:00 PM, a flock came into view that contained a different peep, with a bill the length of a Least, but thicker and rather blunt-tipped compared to Least. The scapulars contained no red feathers, but rather a row of feathers with buff edgings and black centers. The back feathers were rather uniformly tipped with buff (no white lines or rust). This bird also had clean white underparts, lacking the partial collar of streaks that one sometimes finds on Westerns.The legs looked black to me. On a more subjective level, the head and especially the face seemed more rounded than Western, with a noticeable white supercilium. Most views were from a distance of maybe 50 feet with a Swarovski scope at 40x (the wind and the chain-link fence made it hard to see well at higher magnification). I'm rusty on Semipalmated (the last ones I've seen were flocks at Cape Hatteras in 1994), but it sure looked like one. I've seen them with shorter bills than this. Steve R., does this sound like your bird? Wish you were there, Al! Mark ========================================================================== This message was posted through the Stanford campus mailing list server. If you wish to unsubscribe from this mailing list, send the message body of "unsubscribe south-bay-birds" to [[email protected]] From [[email protected]] Mon Aug 18 11:34:14 1997 Subject: Re: Shorebirds At 09:01 AM 8/18/97 -0700, [[email protected]] wrote: >Hi, birders: > Early Saturday I saw the Baird's Sandpiper just southeast of the intersec- >tion of Grand and Spreckels in Alviso, but missed the Semi. S. After Nick >Lethaby told me he had seen it, I tried again around 4 PM, and this time saw >a Semipalmated Sandpiper there (as well as the Baird's again). This one had >quite a short bill - does that match the one you saw, Nick? I thought mine was moderately long-billed. > It stretched its >wings several times, and then flew off by itself toward the east (across the >RR tracks, on the north side of the EEC entrance road). > Also on Saturday afternoon there was a juv. Baird's Sandpiper at the >CCRS pond. > And a high count of 4 Lesser Yellowlegs at Grand/Spreckels. > Back at that latter location on Sunday afternoon: now 2 juv. Baird's >present, but no sign of a Semi. S. > Al Eisner >========================================================================== >This message was posted through the Stanford campus mailing list >server. If you wish to unsubscribe from this mailing list, send the >message body of "unsubscribe south-bay-birds" to [[email protected]] > > _____________________________________________________________ Nick Lethaby Pronghorn Consulting [[email protected]] 1112 N. Abbott Avenue Tel: (408) 941 0223 Milpitas, CA 95035 U.S.A. ========================================================================== This message was posted through the Stanford campus mailing list server. If you wish to unsubscribe from this mailing list, send the message body of "unsubscribe south-bay-birds" to [[email protected]] From [[email protected]] Mon Aug 18 23:53:44 1997 Subject: SESA, BASA All: Monday (18 Aug.), Scott Terrill and I saw 2 juv. BAIRD'S SANDPIPERS in the small pond SE of the intersection of Spreckles/Grand/Los Esteros and 2 juv. SEMIPALMATED SANDPIPERS in the flooded marsh along Spreckles at the end of State Street. One of the juv. SESA was quite short-billed, while the other had a rather long, very slightly decurved bill. I don't think that either was the same as the one I saw in this vicinity last week, but I'll allow that the longer-billed bird could have been the same one. On a very different note, there's a huge crow roost near our apartment. Saturday evening I estimated 1650 AMERICAN CROWS roosting in redwoods and sycamores along Granada Ave. just east of Lawrence Expwy. in Santa Clara (this is just south of El Camino Real). Steve Rottenborn ========================================================================== This message was posted through the Stanford campus mailing list server. If you wish to unsubscribe from this mailing list, send the message body of "unsubscribe south-bay-birds" to [[email protected]] From [[email protected]] Tue Aug 19 07:00:00 1997 Subject: Hawks & Swifts... Hi All, Must be that time of year: this morning our local Kestral was screaming at an adult Cooper's Hawk that dared to visit our local "hawk" tree. The Coop yelled right back, after ducking each time the Kes made a pass. While this was ongoing 3 Vaux Swifts were foraging overhead. After about 15 passes, the Kes appeared to make contact with the back of the head of the Coop and they both were off to the races. Note: this tree is at the corner of Forest Ave & Winchester Blvd (San Jose) near Valley Fair Shopping Center and during the winter a Merlin is a regular. Cheers Nick Yatsko ========================================================================== This message was posted through the Stanford campus mailing list server. If you wish to unsubscribe from this mailing list, send the message body of "unsubscribe south-bay-birds" to [[email protected]] From [[email protected]] Tue Aug 19 12:33:05 1997 Subject: birds Yesterday, 18 Aug 97, I heard a WESTERN TANAGER along Coyote Creek south of Hellyer Ave. This bird is undoubtedly a migrant or dispersant. Mike Mammoser ========================================================================== This message was posted through the Stanford campus mailing list server. If you wish to unsubscribe from this mailing list, send the message body of "unsubscribe south-bay-birds" to [[email protected]] From [[email protected]] Tue Aug 19 13:17:52 1997 Subject: Pectoral Sandpiper All: At noon today I saw the Pectoral Sandpiper reported by Ron Thorn on the Birdbox. It was at the Ravenswood Preserve: go to the very end of Bay Road in East Palo Alto, park, and walk a few feet to the overlook. The bird was where the exposed mud flat joins the reeds, moving in and out of the reeds. I think it was a juvenile. Earlier, I looked for the Semipalmated Sandpipers reported by Steve R. in the marsh at State and Spreckels in Alviso. Only a few Least Sandpipers there. But there were also a few Wilson's and Rednecked Phalaropes in the water there. . . No birds at all in the long thin pond SE of the Spreckels/Grand intersection. John Meyer ========================================================================== This message was posted through the Stanford campus mailing list server. If you wish to unsubscribe from this mailing list, send the message body of "unsubscribe south-bay-birds" to [[email protected]] From [[email protected]] Tue Aug 19 19:35:17 1997 Subject: Grasshopper Sparrow Birders While doing a waterbird pond survey today I heard a sharp chip note coming from the grass immediately west of the pond. The culprit turned out to be a juvenile Grasshopper Sparrow in its First Prebasic moult. It still had a few streaks on the breast but they were largely gone. Most noticeable was the white central crown stripe and the largely unpattered face. According to the list I put together there are no previous records of Grasshopper Sparrow from CCRS, does anyone recall any that I may have missed? I assume that this is a migrant rather than a local bird, this sparrow is one that migrates in juvenal plumage. Today's odd weather may have had something to do with it putting down at CCRS. Several hundred gulls were on the pond, it looked like winter out there. Al Alvaro Jaramillo Half Moon Bay, California [[email protected]] Helm guide to the New World Blackbirds, Birding in Chile and more, at: http://www.sirius.com/~alvaro ========================================================================== This message was posted through the Stanford campus mailing list server. If you wish to unsubscribe from this mailing list, send the message body of "unsubscribe south-bay-birds" to [[email protected]] From [[email protected]] Wed Aug 20 11:34:42 1997 Subject: Thanks to Peter LaTourrette Many thanks to Peter LaTourrette for tending the South Bay Birds list while I was gone! He did a very nice job. I am back now, though it is probably best to send list requests to "[[email protected]]" rather than to me directly. That way, the right person will see the request no matter who is acting is bureaucrat at that time. Jeff Finger ========================================================================== This message was posted through the Stanford campus mailing list server. If you wish to unsubscribe from this mailing list, send the message body of "unsubscribe south-bay-birds" to [[email protected]] From [[email protected]] Wed Aug 20 15:18:37 1997 Subject: Stilt Sandpiper at Alviso This afternoon I saw an adult Stilt Sandpiper in transitional plimage at the pond at Spreckles and State Street. It was hanging about around the dowitcher flock. The bird disappeared after a few minutes, while I was looking elsewhere, and I could not relocate when Steve Rottenborn dropped by later. I did not see any Semi-palmated Sandpipers. _____________________________________________________________ Nick Lethaby Pronghorn Consulting [[email protected]] 1112 N. Abbott Avenue Tel: (408) 941 0223 Milpitas, CA 95035 U.S.A. ========================================================================== This message was posted through the Stanford campus mailing list server. If you wish to unsubscribe from this mailing list, send the message body of "unsubscribe south-bay-birds" to [[email protected]] From [[email protected]] Thu Aug 21 16:32:35 1997 Subject: Semipalmated Sandpipers Howdy South-Bay-Birders, Today, at about 2p.m., I saw 2-3 juvenile SEMIPALMATED SANDPIPERS at the CCRS Waterbird Pond. They were at the first corner of the pond that you come to if driving in from CCRS. The shorebird habitat there is excellent right now, with LOTS of peeps and dowitchers present this afternoon. Only saw 1 WILSON'S PHALAROPE where there were lots just a week ago. At Mountain View Forebay there were 2 LESSER YELLOWLEGS, with 3 more across the dike along Adobe Creek. John Mariani [[email protected]] ========================================================================== This message was posted through the Stanford campus mailing list server. If you wish to unsubscribe from this mailing list, send the message body of "unsubscribe south-bay-birds" to [[email protected]] From [[email protected]] Fri Aug 22 09:15:28 1997 Subject: A1 Frenzy Folks: There was feeding frenzy at the southeast corner of Salt Pond A1 in Mountain View this morning, 8/22/97. I counted 610 AMERICAN WHITE PELICANS and four BROWN PELICANS in about four different "pods," each accompanied by a raft of CALIFORNIA GULLS. I estimated about 1700 gulls with the pelicans. Nearer shore, where the algae mats have built up I counted 180 SNOWY EGRETS and 37 GREAT EGRETS working the mats for small fish, apparently. There were lesser numbers of FORSTER'S TERNS, GREAT BLUE HERONS, and BLACK-CROWNED NIGHT HERONS plus a variety of shorebirds on the mats. The California Gulls provided a continual cacophony of calling that created a distinctive ambience. Bill ========================================================================== This message was posted through the Stanford campus mailing list server. If you wish to unsubscribe from this mailing list, send the message body of "unsubscribe south-bay-birds" to [[email protected]] From [[email protected]] Fri Aug 22 18:46:11 1997 Subject: Stilt Sandpiper This afternoon, Friday Aug. 22, I found a STILT SANDPIPER in the pond at Spreckles and State Sts. in Alviso. It was feeding with a small flock of Dowitchers from 3:20 to 3:45. It was smaller than the Dowitchers, had an all black, drooping bill, greenish legs, brown crown, white supercilium, streaked upper breast, white lower breast and area of legs, slightly streaked undertail coverts. The back was mostly gray. The rump still had some streaking. At 3:40. the bird disappeared behind an island and hadn't reappeared by 4:15. Most of the birds were starting to sleep. There were also quite a few phalaropes, mostly Wilson's but a few Red-Necked were also seen. Kathy Parker ========================================================================== This message was posted through the Stanford campus mailing list server. If you wish to unsubscribe from this mailing list, send the message body of "unsubscribe south-bay-birds" to [[email protected]] From [[email protected]] Sat Aug 23 15:57:33 1997 Subject: CCRS Waterbird Pond update Howdy birders, Again visited the CCRS Waterbird Pond today. A PRAIRIE FALCON was scaring up the shorebirds when I arrived--a long-overdue addition to my Santa Clara Co. list. I found 1 juv. SEMIPALMATED SANDPIPER with WESTERN & LEAST SANDPIPERS on a mud bar in the pond.The Semipalmated had a relatively long bill (by Semipalmated standards). Also counted 10+ LESSER YELLOWLEGS. That's it-- John Mariani [[email protected]] ========================================================================== This message was posted through the Stanford campus mailing list server. If you wish to unsubscribe from this mailing list, send the message body of "unsubscribe south-bay-birds" to [[email protected]] From [[email protected]] Sun Aug 24 12:07:13 1997 Subject: Lark Sparrow at CCRS Birders: Yesterday (SAturday) while leaving CCRS I saw an immature Lark Sparrow perched on the fence along side the levee road. It was nearing the end of its First Prebasic moult, but still showed a few streaks on the breast sides and upperbreast. The face pattern was browner, not as chestnut as on adult. The tail pattern and wings with buff bases to the primaries were as on an adult. This is the first of this species I have seen at CCRS, and it has been observed there before. Given that you can see the hills where this species breeds from CCRS, its rarity is curious.=20 As well, while doing surveys yesterday in private land within Santa Clara County I had a good number of the rarer shorebirds. I counted a total of 6 juvenile Semipalmated Sandpipers, 14 juvenile Baird's Sandpipers, one adult Pectoral Sandpiper, and 9 juvenile Lesser Yellowlegs.=20 The coastal weather has been as odd as the inland weather due to the warm water offshore. The last couple of days have been hot and humid (rare out here), almost like being back east. Doing the early morning dog walk at Pillar Point and not needing a sweatshirt, since there was no wind, was dowright spooky. I expected a frigatebird to sail by, no such luck. By the way, the El Ni=F1o is bringing up some odd birds but the warm water should also bring up some interesting marine mammals. Debi Shearwater was telling me that from shore one should be on the lookout for Bottle-nosed Dolphins and False Killer Whales, both of which were seen during the last big warm water event. Keep this in mind if you are visiting the coast this summer/fall.=20 Regards, Al Alvaro Jaramillo Half Moon Bay,=20 California [[email protected]] Helm guide to the New World Blackbirds, Birding in Chile and more, at: http://www.sirius.com/~alvaro ========================================================================== This message was posted through the Stanford campus mailing list server. If you wish to unsubscribe from this mailing list, send the message body of "unsubscribe south-bay-birds" to [[email protected]] From [[email protected]] Sun Aug 24 15:26:19 1997 Subject: Baird's Sandpipers There were two juvenile BAIRD's SANDPIPERs in the shallow, pickleweed-surrounded pools in the northwest corner of the Mountain View Forebay at 7:45 AM on August 24th. This is the same location, just inside the entrance from Terminal Road, where I saw one on August 20th. Happily, at least one stayed long enough for the SCVAS field trip attendees to see it, and one was still present on our way out about 11:45 AM. Phyllis Browning ========================================================================== This message was posted through the Stanford campus mailing list server. If you wish to unsubscribe from this mailing list, send the message body of "unsubscribe south-bay-birds" to [[email protected]] From [[email protected]] Sun Aug 24 17:06:33 1997 Subject: Stilt Snadpiper The adult Stilt Sandpiper was still present today at Alviso. Since I first saw it on Wednesday, it's molted most of the dark worn summer scapulars and is becoming more uniform gray above. _____________________________________________________________ Nick Lethaby Pronghorn Consulting [[email protected]] 1112 N. Abbott Avenue Tel: (408) 941 0223 Milpitas, CA 95035 U.S.A. ========================================================================== This message was posted through the Stanford campus mailing list server. If you wish to unsubscribe from this mailing list, send the message body of "unsubscribe south-bay-birds" to [[email protected]] From [[email protected]] Sun Aug 24 17:14:46 1997 Subject: Stilt Sandpipers (3 each) All, Today (8/24) at around 9:00 AM Frank Vanslager, David McIntyre, Clysta Seney and I saw a Stilt Sandpiper associating with one Greater and (to a greater degree) one Lesser Yellowlegs in a channel running East from the gate located North of the intersection of Spreckles Av. and State St. in Alviso. After several minutes of observation the bird was lost to view (while referring to field guides) and two other birder's were then seen approaching (Chris and Claire Wolf). When informed that the Stilt Sandpiper had just flown they informed us that they had been studying two (2) STSA in the pond just East of the intersection (Spreckles & State). They then refound the two birds, one which was resting (not sleeping) with a small group of Dowitchers and another which was feeding about 20-30 feet South of the middle STSA with a loosely associated group of Dowitchers. The Southern most bird later landed near the middle bird with both birds being visible in the same scope view. The first STSA was obviously smaller than the LEYE looking somewhat like a smaller version of the LEYE but with yellow-green legs (more yellow than that shown on page 125 of NG and more like that shown in Peterson's Western Birds). The bird had a striped crown, a dark eye with an indistinct eyestripe continuing through the eye. The bill was of medium length and fine with a slight droop at the tip. The throat was lighter gray changing to a medium grey at the chest and to a very light gray or white belly and undertail coverts. The nape of the neck and mantle were medium gray with some darker feathers with lighter edges visible on the mantle and on the scapulars. At one point I thought that I saw a hint of rufous on the mantle. The primaries were very dark gray to black with the tips of the wings extending past the end of the tail. The bird had a white rump with black barring on the edges. Both of the other STSA were much smaller than the Dowitchers with which they associated (there were also Peeps around). The southern most STSA looked very much like the first bird, however I did not study either of these birds as well as the first. The middle STSA had some barring visible on the flanks and seemed to have slightly darker green legs. (Perhaps the Wolf sisters could add a better description, some rufous on the cheek of the middle bird?) The middle STSA was facing us during my observations and I did not get a good look at it's back or sides. My overall impression was that this bird was the most gray overall but it was the only one with barring on it's flank so it could have been the result of my restricted point of view. We understand the implications of finding three rare STSPs in one small marsh within 100 feet of each other but we feel secure in our identifications. Other birds seen included a Peregrine Falcon on the towers South of the Environmental Education center, a Prairie Falcon North of the CCRS Pond and at least nine Bairds Sandpipers in the pond. No SESA nowhere :-( ========================================================================== This message was posted through the Stanford campus mailing list server. If you wish to unsubscribe from this mailing list, send the message body of "unsubscribe south-bay-birds" to [[email protected]] From [[email protected]] Sun Aug 24 19:40:41 1997 Subject: Stilt Sandpiper at CCRS Sunday evening, I saw a adult Stilt Sandpiper at CCRS. This may have been the same bird as has been at Alviso. It had some dark worn scapulars left and some barring on the flanks and sides of the vent. There were at least 1500 Long-billed Dowitchers present prior to a Peregrine clearing them out. I also had a juvenile Semi-palmated Sandpiper and a Pectoral Sandpiper. The latter lacked any 'V's and appeared generally rather dull, so it may well have been an adult, although adult Pectorals seem to be very rare in this area. It did not come close enough to be really grilled. There were 2 Lesser Yellowlegs as well. _____________________________________________________________ Nick Lethaby Pronghorn Consulting [[email protected]] 1112 N. Abbott Avenue Tel: (408) 941 0223 Milpitas, CA 95035 U.S.A. ========================================================================== This message was posted through the Stanford campus mailing list server. If you wish to unsubscribe from this mailing list, send the message body of "unsubscribe south-bay-birds" to [[email protected]] From [[email protected]] Mon Aug 25 06:51:31 1997 Subject: 2 of 3 Stilt Sandpipers at State and Spreckles Streets 6:45 PM 24 August 24, 1997 All: While returning from a Shearwater Journeys Peligic Trip on Monterey Bay yesterday, August 24th, I thought I'd try for the Stilt Sandpiper again in Alviso. After having arrived at State and Spreckles Streets, Mike Mammoser stopped by to check the area over again. He had seen the basic plumaged Sandpiper earlier in the afternoon at this same location. After a short time Mike Mammoser refound the Stilt Sandpiper hidden among a circle of Dowitchers and the further of to the left he found a second Stilt Sandpiper in juvenile plumage. A few minutes later the second (juvenile) Stilt Sandpiper flew off to the east over the railroad tracks. Mike Feighner, Livermore, CA, [[email protected]] ========================================================================== This message was posted through the Stanford campus mailing list server. If you wish to unsubscribe from this mailing list, send the message body of "unsubscribe south-bay-birds" to [[email protected]] From [[email protected]] Mon Aug 25 17:45:21 1997 Subject: birds On Saturday, 23 Aug 97, I started out at CCRS, where I scoped out the waterb= ird pond. An adult female OSPREY was perched on the new bridge over Coyote Cree= k, and eventually moved to the waterbird pond, where it graciously posed for close-up views for many minutes. Amongst the many shorebirds here were 2 juvenile SEMIPALMATED SANDPIPERS. A stop in Alviso at Spreckles and State, produced about a half dozen LESSER= YELLOWLEGS, 160 RED-NECKED PHALAROPES, and a handful of WILSON'S PHALAROPES= From [[email protected]] Tue Aug 26 06:26:24 1997 Subject: CCRS Osprey All: I neglected to report in my earlier report that the OSPREY Mike Mammoser reports in his report was still at the CCRS Waterbird Pond at about 6:30 PM on August 23rd when John Meyer and I were checking out the flood of sandpipers at the pond which may or may not have included any specialties. We did notice the huge close of smoke from the fire in Newark from there which we heard about soon thereafter through news reports on the radio. Mike Feighner, [[email protected]] ========================================================================== This message was posted through the Stanford campus mailing list server. If you wish to unsubscribe from this mailing list, send the message body of "unsubscribe south-bay-birds" to [[email protected]] From [[email protected]] Wed Aug 27 09:31:33 1997 Subject: birds It seems my first transmission of this report got truncated. So here it is again, hopefully in its entirety. On Saturday, 23 Aug 97, I started out at CCRS, where I scoped out the water= bird pond. An adult female OSPREY was perched on the new bridge over Coyote Cree= k, and eventually moved to the waterbird pond, where it graciously posed for close-up views for many minutes. Amongst the many shorebirds here were 2 juvenile SEMIPALMATED SANDPIPERS. A stop in Alviso at Spreckles and State, produced about a half dozen LESSER= YELLOWLEGS, 160 RED-NECKED PHALAROPES, and a handful of WILSON'S PHALAROPES= From [[email protected]] Wed Aug 27 09:45:40 1997 Subject: Fwd:birds Mike, Let me know if you received my entire message here (it ends with my name). = I've sent it directly to you, instead of through the mail list. On Saturday, 23 Aug 97, I started out at CCRS, where I scoped out the water= bird pond. An adult female OSPREY was perched on the new bridge over Coyote Cree= k, and eventually moved to the waterbird pond, where it graciously posed for close-up views for many minutes. Amongst the many shorebirds here were 2 juvenile SEMIPALMATED SANDPIPERS. A stop in Alviso at Spreckles and State, produced about a half dozen LESSER= YELLOWLEGS, 160 RED-NECKED PHALAROPES, and a handful of WILSON'S PHALAROPES= From [[email protected]] Wed Aug 27 10:15:44 1997 Subject: birds OK, let's try this again. On Saturday, 23 Aug 97, I started out at CCRS, where I scoped out the water= bird pond. An adult female OSPREY was perched on the new bridge over Coyote Cree= k, and eventually moved to the waterbird pond, where it graciously posed for close-up views for many minutes. Amongst the many shorebirds here were 2 juvenile SEMIPALMATED SANDPIPERS. A stop in Alviso at Spreckles and State, produced about a half dozen LESSER= YELLOWLEGS, 160 RED-NECKED PHALAROPES, and a handful of WILSON'S PHALAROPES= From [[email protected]] Wed Aug 27 12:29:08 1997 Subject: birds Isn't this fun? On Saturday, 23 Aug 97, I started out at CCRS, where I scoped out the waterbird pond. An adult female OSPREY was perched on the new bridge over Coyote Creek, and eventually moved to the waterbird pond, where it graciously posed for close-up views for many minutes. Amongst the many shorebirds here were 2 juvenile SEMIPALMATED SANDPIPERS. = A stop in Alviso at Spreckles and State, produced about a half dozen LESSER YELLOWLEGS, 160 RED-NECKED PHALAROPES, and a handful of WILSON'S PHALAROPES. = At the Mountain View Forebay I found an immature LARK SPARROW. = On Sunday, 24 Aug 97, I biked around the Sunnyvale Sewage Ponds. These ponds had 1000+ RED-NECKED PHALAROPES with a few WILSON'S thrown in. Among the many ducks was a half-grown brood each of GADWALL and LESSER SCAUP. A BURROWING OWL was along the SE edge of salt pond A3W. = = In the early afternoon I went to Spreckles and State in Alviso, quickly finding a STILT SANDPIPER. This was an adult bird in mostly basic plumage. It still had some barring on the flanks and undertail coverts. I ferried a couple people out from the EEC to see this bird and Nick Lethaby showed up as well. = I then biked out around the Alviso Slough trail, hoping to take advantage of the high tide to see shorebirds. Salt pond A14 had much exposed pond bottom, and was teeming with thousands upon thousands of peeps, basically WESTERN SANDPIPERS. There was also a few hundreds each of BLACK-BELLIED PLOVER, MARBLED GODWIT, LONG-BILLED CURLEW, and WILLET. Phalaropes were scattered about. The numbers of birds was made evident when 2 hunting adult PEREGRINE FALCONS came by and got the whole = kit-n-kaboodle up in the air. = After returning from the ponds, I went by Spreckles and State on my way to the freeway and found Mike Feighner scoping the pond. I stopped and we found the adult STILT SANDPIPER that I had seen previously. Also present was a juvenile Stilt Sandpiper that threw me at first when it wasn't being very cooperative. Eventually it became active and gave me a good look, before flying off over the railroad tracks. = Mike Mammoser ========================================================================== This message was posted through the Stanford campus mailing list server. If you wish to unsubscribe from this mailing list, send the message body of "unsubscribe south-bay-birds" to [[email protected]] From [[email protected]] Wed Aug 27 17:40:39 1997 All, After failing to find much of interest at Spreckles and State Street late this afternoon 8/27/97, I stopped at the Calabazas Ponds, which clearly held many shorebirds when viewed from highway 237. Scanning the dowitcher flocks in the second (middle) pond from the west levee I soon located a juvenile STILT SANDPIPER fairly far out in the pond. Then it flew with several other birds and I could not relocate it until I checked the very near pond - it was right off the dike. I enjoyed this bird for almost an hour before leaving at 6:00pm and it was still present then. Also here were 15 LESSER YELLOWLEGS; the north pond had 1 immature BROWN PELICAN among the many AMERICAN WHITE PELICANS and 9 adult CASPIAN TERNS. Mike Rogers 8/27/97 ========================================================================== This message was posted through the Stanford campus mailing list server. If you wish to unsubscribe from this mailing list, send the message body of "unsubscribe south-bay-birds" to [[email protected]] From [[email protected]] Wed Aug 27 21:03:13 1997 Subject: belated birds/ Zany Zonos. Birders This last Monday, August 25 I saw an adult Stilt Sandpiper at the CCRS waterbird pond while I was doing a survey. I assume it was the same bird observed by Nick Lethaby a day earlier. This bird was largely in Basic plumage but retained a few alternate scapulars, bars on the flanks and was missing a couple of tertials. There were a total of over 1400 dowitchers on the pond. All of the calling birds are Long-billed Dowitchers but I did see a couple of juvenile Short-billed Dowithcers in there. A flock of 4 Lesser Yellowlegs flew in while I was counting. The pond was almost devoid of peeps. Now some zany Zonotrichia trivia. While I was looking for some papers I ran into the following notes. Way back, Dick Mewaldt (founder of CCRS, SFBBO and PRBO) caught several Golden-crowned Sparrows in his backyard in San Jose. He wanted to do some studies with the birds and had to fly them up to Washington State where he kept them in an open air cage. While he was getting them accustomed to the cages a couple of the birds flew out and made their gettaway. The two birds then made their way back to Mewaldt's backyard in San Jose that same winter, where he re-trapped the banded birds! The other note was of a pilot who felt a thud as he flew 10000 feet over a site in central California. Once he landed he checked the aircraft and found bird parts stuck to part of the plane, the legs were identified as a large Zonotrichia, probably a Golden-crowned Sparrow. That's pretty high for a sparrow! Al. Alvaro Jaramillo Half Moon Bay, California [[email protected]] Helm guide to the New World Blackbirds, Birding in Chile and more, at: http://www.sirius.com/~alvaro ========================================================================== This message was posted through the Stanford campus mailing list server. If you wish to unsubscribe from this mailing list, send the message body of "unsubscribe south-bay-birds" to [[email protected]] From [[email protected]] Thu Aug 28 10:13:00 1997 Subject: OSPREY An OSPREY was hunting along the Guadalupe River at 10:00am this morning at the San Jose Airport. Nick Yatsko ========================================================================== This message was posted through the Stanford campus mailing list server. If you wish to unsubscribe from this mailing list, send the message body of "unsubscribe south-bay-birds" to [[email protected]] From [[email protected]] Fri Aug 29 12:06:46 1997 Subject: immature COMMON MURRE in slough between Pond A1 and Calabasas Pon ds All: Just returned from the Calabasas Ponds north of Highway 237 and east of the new Sunnyvale Baylands Park where I had intended on checking on the juvenile STILT SANDPIPER which was not present; the BROWN PELICAN that Mike Rogers had reported two days ago was still present amoung the 16 AMERICAN WHITE PELICANs. I climbed up on the viewing platform at the NW corner of the Calabasas Ponds to check on any SNOWY PLOVERs at Pond A1 to the north (none were here). Out of nowhere an immature COMMON MURRE swam in the slough here from the east, directly under the viewing platform and then continued its course to the west. Viewing time was about 10 minutes. The bird had already developed the "black arrow mark" behind the eye through its white check of an adult in winter plumage, but it still had a somewhat mottled throat and brownish underparts. Particularly noticeable were the birds feet that seemed to rise out of the water for more momentum. I have not heard of a COMMON MURRE in Santa Clara County for a long time. I believe there was one about 8 years ago on Shoreline Lake(?). For those looking for this bird in Santa Clara County, check the slough behind the new Sunnyvale Baylands Park or vicinity. That was where the bird was heading at 12:30 PM today. Good birding Mike Feighner, [[email protected]], 8.29.97, 1:01 PM ========================================================================== This message was posted through the Stanford campus mailing list server. If you wish to unsubscribe from this mailing list, send the message body of "unsubscribe south-bay-birds" to [[email protected]] From [[email protected]] Fri Aug 29 13:16:06 1997 Subject: another COMMON MURRE only 2 years ago All: Mike Rogers informs me that there was a COMMON MURRE that Peter Metropulos and Steve Rottenborn independently found in Guadalupe Slough on 8/16/95. Sorry, I forgot about that one. The one I was referring to was one seen about 7 or 8 years ago on Shoreline Lake in Mountain View. Mike Feighner ========================================================================== This message was posted through the Stanford campus mailing list server. If you wish to unsubscribe from this mailing list, send the message body of "unsubscribe south-bay-birds" to [[email protected]] From [[email protected]] Sat Aug 30 14:46:04 1997 Subject: Black Skimmer Howdy birders, Yesterday (Friday) I saw a pair of BLACK SKIMMERS flying with terns over Charleston Slough, Santa Clara Co. Also at Charleston Slough, just across the path from Mtn View Forebay, I saw 13 RED-NECKED PHALAROPES. LESSER YELLOWLEGS were at the forebay and along nearby Adobe Creek. John Mariani [[email protected]] ========================================================================== This message was posted through the Stanford campus mailing list server. If you wish to unsubscribe from this mailing list, send the message body of "unsubscribe south-bay-birds" to [[email protected]] From [[email protected]] Sat Aug 30 18:52:47 1997 Subject: STILTSA,BLSK All, Yesterday 8/29/97 after work I decided to check Guadalupe Slough for Mike Feighner's Common Murre. With my bike I covered the slough from behind the Twin Creeks baseball fields, past Salt Pond A4, behind the Sunnyvale WPCP, to the mouth of the slough out at the north side of Salt Pond A3N. No Murre :(. I did have 1 COMMON SNIPE, 2+ VIRGINIA RAILS, and 1 YELLOW WARBLER behind Twin Creeks, 3 BROWN PELICANS on Pond A3W, 3 HARBOR SEALS hauled out along outer Guadalupe Slough, and an immature PEREGRINE FALCON harassing shorebirds over Salt Pond A3N. After getting home, I had a message from Steve Rottenborn explaining that he and Scott Terrill had refound the COMMON MURRE in Calabazas Creek just upstream (south of) the highway 237 bridge. Not wanting to find the bird dead in the morning, I grabbed a flashlight and refound the bird in the same location at 8:45pm. It swam from just south of the highway 237 bridge to just north of it while I enjoyed flashlight views at 15 yards. This morning 8/30/97 I was back there at 7:40am, hoping to photograph the bird - no luck, it was gone. I also checked from the observation platform at the northwest corner of the Calabazas Ponds but the only thing interesting there was a SONG SPARROW feeding young. Then on to the Guadalupe River, where I hiked the west side from Trimble to Montague and came back on the east side. Although the habitat is excellent, the place was pretty quiet except for a little hotspot near the big willows north of the north edge of the Viking Truck yard on the west side of the creek. Here I had 2 HOODED ORIOLES (one eating a katydid-type insect), 2 WESTERN TANAGERS (one eating wasps), 1 "WESTERN" FLYCATCHER, 1 very vocal female MACGILLIVRAY'S WARBLER, and an OSPREY flying overhead (about 9am, molting two outer primaries in both wings). Also had a PACIFIC-SLOPE FLYCATCHER on the east side near Trimble and a NORTHERN MOCKINGBIRD feeding young on the west side south of the trucking yard. I next headed south to the San Jose Airport, where I scoped from the "94th Aero Squadron Restaurant" on the west side. From 10:25 to 10:32, what appeared to be the same OSPREY was working over the portion of the Guadalupe River across from me. A hike along Penitencia Creek in Alum Rock Park from the west entrance of the park past the Rustic Lands picnic area to the pay kiosk and back produced little of interest. A HOUSE WREN, a HAIRY WOODPECKER, and a worn female LAZULI BUNTING were the best things I could find. A trip up to the sycamores behind Sandy Wool Lake revealed a very dried up hillside. One silent RUFOUS-CROWNED SPARROW was all I could find here besides fledgling CALIFORNIA TOWHEES and MOURNING DOVES. Sandy Wool Lake had an immature GREEN HERON and the hybrid CANADAx DOMESTIC GOOSE. Back at CCRS, the banding board indicated 2 WILLOW FLYCATCHERS banded on the 27th after the 8/24 bird Al Jaramillo has already mentioned. A RUFOUS HUMMINGBIRD banded 8/22 and a HERMIT THRUSH banded on 8/3 (???) were of interest. Working the nearby creek, I found only 1-2 WESTERN FLYCATCHERS, but coming back north in the overflow channel I had an immature WILLOW FLYCATCHER near the east end of net "TRAN K" just south of the redwood below the trailers. Also here were an agitated adult female HOODED ORIOLE with two fledglings (still with rictal flanges and apparently all unbanded) and a banded COMMON YELLOWTHROAT. The nearly complete basic adult STILT SANDPIPER was foraging at the northeast corner of the waterbird pond (at least from 3:45 to 4:25) among many DOWITCHERS and was also enjoyed by Al Eisner. I took some distant photos that might just be identifiable :). Also here were 11 juvenile LESSER YELLOWLEGS. A flock of 5000+ blackbirds on both sides of Zanker Road just north of highway 237 contained 70% TRICOLORED BLACKBIRDS. Most of the rest were EUROPEAN STARLINGS, but there were numerous RED-WINGED BLACKBIRDS, BREWER'S BLACKBIRDS, and BROWN-HEADED COWBIRDS in the flock as well. No sign of Ann Verdi's Yellow-headed Blackbird of a few days ago though. The pond at State and Spreckles was loaded with YELLOWLEGS - 97 GREATER and 21 LESSER. Careful scrutiny of the yellowlegs revealed the juvenile STILT SANDPIPER hiding in the tall brush on the island. Also 2 WILSON'S PHALAROPES and 1 RED-NECKED PHALAROPE on the pond. The Murre was still a no-show along Calabazas Creek from 5:25 to 5:50pm, and the rapidly drying up middle pond had just 3 LESSER YELLOWLEGS among a small dowitcher flock. Still 1 CASPIAN TERN in the north pond. I bumped into John and Maria Meyers at the Mountain View Forebay, where they pointed out a SORA working the edge of the reeds. We later found 4 BLACK SKIMMERS and 28 RED-NECKED PHALAROPES on Charleston Slough, 1 immature TREE SWALLOW at the pump house, and 15 LESSER YELLOWLEGS scattered about the area for a total of 50 seen this afternoon. Mike Rogers 8/29/97 and 8/30/97 ========================================================================== This message was posted through the Stanford campus mailing list server. If you wish to unsubscribe from this mailing list, send the message body of "unsubscribe south-bay-birds" to [[email protected]] From [[email protected]] Sun Aug 31 12:22:33 1997 Subject: PECTORAL SANDPIPER and WILLOW FLYCATCHER at CCRS (8/31/97) All: This morning (August 31, 1997) I birded the CCRS Waterbird Pond and the bird-banding trail along the creek. As I drove in from the north side along Dixon Landing Road, I discovered an OSPREY flying over Dixon Landing Road that continued its flight northward. The Waterbed Pond had many sandpipers and dowitchers, but I did not discover the PECTORAL SANDPIPER until I returned to my car after walking around the entire pond. Ed Gustofson and Alan Thomas showed upand left before I found the PECTORAL SANDPIPER. They told me that they had seen the STILT SANDPIPER a little earlier. The PECTORAL SANDPIPER whjich I watched for about 20 minutes was foraging in the shallow water just to the right of the blinds at a small mud mound that has an old tire buried in it. I also checked the flooded area to the west of the Waterbird Pond and south of the BFI recycling Center. Only bird of note was a single LESSER YELLOWLEGS. The trailers had a three banders present, but there was no sign on the wall where I expected to see the most recent bird sightings. Two banders there did tell me though that 5 WILLOW FLYCATCHERs and one ORANGE-CROWNED WARBLER had been banded in the morning. There was not much bird activity (besides a couple of CHESTNUT-SIDED CHICKADEEs and an ANNA's HUMMINGBIRD) along the net trail; it was already past 11 AM. However, near the south end of the trail where Coyote Bush is on both sides of the trail I found one, possibly two WILLOW FLYCATCHERs. In my earlier report regarding the COMMON MURRE on Friday, August 29th, I forgot to mention the single CASPIAN TERN on the north-most of the three ponds, and a VIRGINIA's RAIL that flew across the slough and into reeds at the Observation Platform. For those of you who heard my COMMON MURRE report of the Northern California Birdbox ((415) 681-7422) you will have heard some misinformation. It is true, I did see a COMMON MURRE, but not a COMMON TERN. Mike Feighner, [[email protected]], 8/31/97 1:17 PM ========================================================================== This message was posted through the Stanford campus mailing list server. If you wish to unsubscribe from this mailing list, send the message body of "unsubscribe south-bay-birds" to [[email protected]] From [[email protected]] Sun Aug 31 12:48:42 1997 Subject: Re: STILTSA,BLSK Mike Rogers wrote: >Back at CCRS, the banding board indicated 2 WILLOW FLYCATCHERS banded >on the 27th after the 8/24 bird Al Jaramillo has already mentioned. A >RUFOUS HUMMINGBIRD banded 8/22 and a HERMIT THRUSH banded on 8/3 (???) >were of interest. Working the nearby creek, I found only 1-2 WESTERN >FLYCATCHERS, but coming back north in the overflow channel I had an >immature WILLOW FLYCATCHER near the east end of net "TRAN K" just >south of the redwood below the trailers. Also here were an agitated >adult female HOODED ORIOLE with two fledglings (still with rictal >flanges and apparently all unbanded) and a banded COMMON YELLOWTHROAT. > The Hermit Thrush banded at CCRS was still in Juvenal plumage, a very odd record. The banders were very excited about it, knowing that even though it was 'just' a Hermit Thrush it was indeed a rare bird. I saw that female Hooded Oriole with young yesterday as well. There has been very little Hooded Oriole activity lately and my assumption is that this could be a third nesting for them. The first broods fledge during May/June, the second in June/July and Aug/Sept seems to be late enough to be a third one or a late second. I don't think that three broods in a season has been confirmed for Hooded Oriole in this part of the world, but its not impossible. Contrast this with Orchard, Bullock's and Baltimores which only ever raise one brood per season. The flycatchers are going through in numbers now. The other day I was able to band a "WEstern" Flycatcher that was missing its entire upper mandible. It appeared to be a genetic, or developmental defect. The bird was alive, had no fat and was somewhat underweight. I would be impressed if it survives the migration, life is harsh sometimes. Al. Alvaro Jaramillo Half Moon Bay, California [[email protected]] Helm guide to the New World Blackbirds, Birding in Chile and more, at: http://www.sirius.com/~alvaro ========================================================================== This message was posted through the Stanford campus mailing list server. If you wish to unsubscribe from this mailing list, send the message body of "unsubscribe south-bay-birds" to [[email protected]]