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Yesterday, August 17, I led a group from the Los Gatos, Wild Bird Center to 
Alum Rock Park.  We were pleased to find Penetencia Creek still flowing with 
water.  Although we observed several different species yesterday, I wanted to 
share the highlights of our day.  

Just beyond the Youth Science Institute (YSI) along the creek (north/east of 
the Big Bear picnic area) we came upon two Dippers.  After one flew down 
steam we put our scopes on the remaining Dipper.  This juvenile bird gave us 
great views as it preened in the sun and was in no hurry to go anywhere.  We 
later continued up the creek and upon our return found both Dippers again. 

We also enjoyed watching two Golden Eagles thoughout the entire day.  They 
were juveniles, and we watched them soaring the steep hill sides along the 
north/east edge of the park.  At times they also landed together on the side 
of this hill.  Actually, we saw several raptors from Copper's Hawks, to Red 
Tail Hawks, to Kestrels along this rim, but the eagles dwarfed them all.

It was a great day!

Lisa Myers 

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It looks like our orioles are gone. Use of the feeder has dropped 
radically, so we're now going back to the off-season half batches.

And on thursday morning, Laurie saw a rufous hummer visiting the 
fountain in the front yard for a quick drink and a shower. We only see 
these occasionally as they travel through. Haven't seen any at the 
feeder out back.

chuq (santa clara, central park area)




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SouthBayBirders,

Shortly after a fellow birder directed me to the proper location for viewing
the REEVE and STILT SANDPIPER this morning, Ann Verdi arrived and promptly
spotted the two birds. (They were in the next two places I was going to
look.) Thank you, Ann. The birds were in New Chicago Marsh east of the
railroad tracks 100 yards north of the entrance to the Don Edwards San
Francisco Bay National Wildlife Refuge Environmental Education Center. The
sleeping stilt was buried in a pack of 50 dowitchers initially revealing
itself only by its lesser stature and cooler, gray coloration. Eventually it
poked its head up and looked around permitting a positive ID.

Early this afternoon at the Donald M. Somers Water Pollution Control Plant,
after Peggy Don pointed me in the right direction, I found a PECTORAL
SANDPIPER feeding on the slough side of the inner levee near the northeast
corner of the large western pond. So that I could properly judge its size
the sandpiper walked up and stood next to a Lesser Yellowlegs that was
feeding beside the partially submerged orange highway cone. Other birds
included 8 Vaux's Swifts seen together near the entrance and a Bonaparte's
Gull in the southwest corner of the large eastern pond.

Dennis Braddy
San Ramon

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Date: Sun, 18 Aug 2002 19:56:22 -0700
From: Kris Olson 
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Subject: [SBB] Palo Alto Duck Pond: MEW GULL
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Hello Birders,

Decided to check out Mike Roger's hunch on the Heerman's Gull with my 8 year
old for assistance. She did a great job feeding the gulls, but no Heerman's
gull was found.  I did see a very small gull that turned out to be a MEW
GULL, later verified by Mike Rogers. He thinks the gull may be sick as it
has no tail and many wing feathers are just the shafts.

The gull is smaller than the Ring-bills.  Very thin greenish-gray bill with
a dark spot. Matching leg color.  Big dark eye.  Light gray back with a
touch of light brown on the wing fold. Gray smudges up its neck and head. It
was hanging out on the low fence posts by the duck pond. If you park in the
first duck pond parking lot, it was on your right, between there and the
second duck pond lot.

There was a also a female LESSER SCAUP along with many RING-BILLED GULLS,
CALIFORNIA GULLS (including some stunning immatures (first year, says Mike)
with their chocolate brown scalloping), and a few WESTERN GULLS.  

On the mud flats, where we ran into Mike, there were more gulls, an American
White Pelican, Whimbrels, Long-billed Curlews, Marbled Godwit, Long-billed
Dowitchers and a few Short-billed Dowitchers, Black-bellied Plovers and
sandpipers too far away for my scope!   The birds were flying out as the
tide was coming in, to roost where?

-- Kris Olson

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Date: Sun, 18 Aug 2002 22:13:23 -0700
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Subject: [SBB] Stilt Sandpiper, Ruff, Black Tern, Common Tern
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Pat Kenny and I stopped by New Chicago Marsh mid-morning and were directed by
other birders (thanks) to the RUFF and the STILT SANDPIPER east of the
railroad tracks.  Eventually, the Stilt Sandpiper woke up enough to give us
and Mike Mammoser pretty good views.

In the early afternoon, we reconnected with Mike at the Sunnyvale WPCP and
walked out the west levee of the pair separating the East and West ponds.  We
met a returning Al Eisner short of the place where the terns have been
roosting near where the levee turns right and heads north.

While we were swapping lies with Al we spotted a COMMON TERN flying over the
pond west of the levee.  Shortly we also saw a small, dark tern flying away to
the NW.  During the excitement, Frank Vanslager and Bob Reiling arrived,
getting quick glances at the disappearing bird.  We reacquired the dark tern
several times, but at long distance.  Wanting to pursue it, but not wanting to
disturb the now roosting COMMON TERN for birders we could see approaching, we
waited.  Linda Sullivan and others whose names I don't know arrived, saw the
COMMON TERN, and finally we barged through the tern roost.  We walked around
the NE corner of the west pond (the algae mat was nearly empty of birds except
for some in the immediate vicinity of the reeds; the main mat seemed too wet
for use; nothing of interest).  Since we were on the north side of the pond,
we naturally found the dark tern back in the SE.  We headed back to the area
of the tern roost and got excellent views of the BLACK TERN, sometimes
roosting on the levee, more often out over the pond, flying slowly into the
strong northwesterly breeze.

Roland Kenner