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From email@hidden Mon Dec 01 03:08:56 1997
Subject: geese
We saw at least ten greater white-fronted geese--orange feet and bills,
some adults with white near beaks, some jubveniles without--at the north
end of Bair Island on Friday afternoon, 11/28, in the slough just south
of the airport. Wonderful!
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From email@hidden Mon Dec 01 05:53:23 1997
Subject: Laughing Gull in Palo Alto (Santa Clara County)
All: (Please ignore this message if you are getting this twice...there
seems to be a network problem)
There is a winter-plumaged Laughing Gull at the Palo Alto Baylands Duck
Pond found on November 29th by Tom Grey. There has been some discussion
whether the gull is a first-winter or second-winter, or in transition
between both. This is only the second record of Laughing Gull in Santa
Clara County.
When I had first arrived there this morning, there were only four gulls
on the pond, and none was the Laughing Gull. When I returned, some
people were feeding bread to the ducks, and many gulls returned
including the Laughing Gull.
I placed information about this sighting at
http://www.qedge.com/birds/
where a number of other rare birds are reported along with some birding
milestones.
Good luck and Good Birding
Mike Feighner, Livermore, CA, email@hidden, 11/30/97 2:06 PM
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From email@hidden Mon Dec 01 08:04:34 1997
Subject: thanks to Tlm Grey for RBA reporting
Tom and all:
I would like to repeat Steve's Rottenborn thanks to Tom Grey for
reporting the LAUGHING GULL to the Northern California Bird Box as well
as to South-Bay-Birds. A number of us including me would not have known
about the gull as quickly if it had only gone to South-Bay-Birds.
The whole time I was at the Palo Alto Duck Pond yesterday morning,
11/30/97, the White-fronted was never visible.
Afterwards I made a trip to Shoreline Lake hoping from something special
arriving; only special birds were two male Barrow's Goldeneyes. I did
not refind the Red-necked Grebe nor the Common Loon.
I also checked the area north of the maintenance yard near the "north"
pond of the Palo Alto Flood Control Basin at high tide hoping to find
Mike Mammoser's Swamp sparrow. The were few birds in the reids there,
only a Marsh Wren. There were about 20 Redheads on the "north" pond.
Mike Feighner, Livermore, CA, email@hidden
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From email@hidden Mon Dec 01 09:08:51 1997
Subject: Re: Laughing Gull, etc.
Rosalie Lefkowitz wrote:
>
> The Laughing Gull was an easy find at the Palo Alto Baylands Duck
> Pond this morning 12/1.
> I had time afterwards for a leisurely walk out the airport levee. At the
> very end there was a BROWN PELICAN flying over the water and in the pond
> just past the Interpretive Center there was a SEMIPALMATED SANDPIPER along
> with a nmuber of Least's.
Rosalie,
Did you mean Semipalmated Plover? If not, how was the Semipalmated
Sandpiper identified (i.e., distinguished from a short-billed Western
or from a Little or Red-necked Stint)? It wouldn't surprise me if
SESA did on rare occasions occur in California this late in the year,
but PROVING that such a bird was actually a Semipalm rather than a
stint or a Western would be nearly impossible without the bird in the
hand or unless the bird retained some juvenal or alternate feathering.
Thanks,
Steve Rottenborn
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From email@hidden Mon Dec 01 10:02:29 1997
Subject: Almaden Waterbirds
On Saturday, Nov 29, approximately thirty WOOD DUCKS were seen at Almaden
Reservoir. This number is considerably lower than wintering numbers seen
in previous years at this time, but the reservoir is also very low. The
Wood Ducks were seen along a mud embankment near the Larabee Gulch extension.
Hopefully as the water level in the reservoir rises, we will see more
Wood Ducks this season.
On Sunday, Nov 30, two COMMON LOONS seen at Calero Reservoir.
Ann Verdi
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From email@hidden Mon Dec 01 10:09:40 1997
Subject: PRWA
Hello All
On Friday, 11/28, the PRAIRIE WARBLER was still present at the
Guadalupe River near highway 880 at 1:30PM. It was about 200 feet
north of the 880 overpass, and was foraging actively, flying back and
forth across the river. At one point, it paused for about 2 minutes to
preen in the medium sized walnut tree near me , and I took quite a few
photo's of it from about 35 feet away.
A check of Charleston Slough revealed the continuing presence of 12
BLACK SKIMMERS,and two SORA's foraging in the forebay at dusk.
Alan
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From email@hidden Mon Dec 01 11:18:00 1997
Subject: Baylands Duck Pond (Sun.)
I returned from a trip to the midwest in time to look for the Laughing Gull
Sunday afternoon; thanks for the timely BirdBox reports by Tom Grey and (on
Sunday) Nick Lethaby. When I first arrived the Gull wasn't around, but the
Greater White-Fronted Goose was at the Duck Pond. (Later on its presence
wasn't obvious.) Bob Reiling first located the Gull resting with Ring-Billed's
on a wet area along the main Baylands road, adjacent to the airport parking
area. (Repeated low flyovers by a helicopter disturbed us, but apparently
not the Gulls.) It later flew to the Duck Pond, providing the absurdly close
looks to which Nick has referred. The time-span of observations was about
2:45 to 4 PM.
A couple of comments/questions re. plumage. The bird is clearly mostly in
first-winter plumage. Nick mentioned, among other things, that the greater
coverts were brown but the other (upperwing secondary) coverts were gray. I
noticed that especially when resting in the water but even when standing on
the ground, the bird managed to hide many or even all of the coverts under
other (underparts?) feathering. On at least one occasion, however, it did
expose some brown coverts, fairly far forward, which I thought might be parts
of coverts tracts other than the greater coverts. However, I was uncertain of
the latter conclusion, and it appeared in any case that most of these feather
tracts were gray. Second, a feature clearly visible in Frank Vanslager's
Questar (and hinted at with poorer optics) was a pinkish tint on the legs,
especially their lower portions, although the predominant color was a rather
dark gray. Is this typical coloration?
Al Eisner
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From email@hidden Mon Dec 01 11:59:41 1997
Subject: Laughing Gull, etc.
The Laughing Gull was an easy find at the Palo Alto Baylands Duck=
Pond this morning 12/1.
I had time afterwards for a leisurely walk out the airport levee. At the=
very end there was a BROWN PELICAN flying over the water and in the pond
just past the Interpretive Center there was a SEMIPALMATED SANDPIPER alon=
g
with a nmuber of Least's.
Rosalie Lefkowitz
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From email@hidden Mon Dec 01 15:56:36 1997
Subject: composite list
DECEMBER 1 1997 SANTA CLARA COUNTY YEAR LIST UPDATE
Well, we made it! Tom Grey's Laughing Gull was the 300th bird species
to be reported in Santa Clara County this year. If we find four more
species we will set a new record - that may be tough.
A belated report of an apparently healthy adult Pelagic Cormorant was
turned in to Bill Bousman by Peter Metropulos. The bird was on the
Alviso Salt Ponds on 11/9/97. The next three species, Prairie Warbler,
Swamp Sparrow, and Laughing Gull, have already been discussed on
south-bay-birds.
Possible targets and areas to find them include:
Brandt's Cormorant - bayside areas
Tundra Swan - Alviso, outer Palo Alto Flood Control Basin
Black Scoter - Shoreline Lake, the bay off Palo Alto
White-winged Scoter - Shoreline Lake, the bay off Palo Alto
Rough-legged Hawk - bayside areas, south county areas
jaegers - bayside areas
Little and Black-headed Gulls - wherever there are Bonaparte's Gulls
Red-naped Sapsucker - look for wells and check every sapsucker!
Mountain Bluebird - Sierra, Felter and Calaveras Rds, San Antonio Valley
Sage Thrasher - bayside areas
Black-and-white Warbler - riparian areas
Northern Waterthrush - Matadero, EEC Alviso, Guadalupe River
Chestnut-collared Longspur - Sierra Rd summit (but none last winter)
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:
297: 11/ 9/97 PELAGIC CORMORANT
298: 11/21/97 PRAIRIE WARBLER
299: 11/27/97 SWAMP SPARROW
300: 11/29/97 LAUGHING GULL
Please send any additions, corrections, or comments to Mike
Rogers, email@hidden.
SANTA CLARA COUNTY YEAR LIST - 1997
RWR AME WGB MMR MJM KLP MLF SCR CKS COMP SOURCE
377 272 273 232 263 262 185 300
% OF COMPOSITE FOR 1997
% OF 377
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 203 219 258 253 218 251 195 296
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 10/22 10/22 10/22 11/ 9 10/22 10/22 RCC
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 11/ 9 PJM
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 9/ 5 9/ 5 9/ 5 9/ 5 9/ 4 AJa
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 10/12 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 9/24 1/ 3 1/ 1 1/ 3 11/ 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 11/ 3 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 10/ 4 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 9/ 5 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 10/12 RLi
Black-bellied Plover 1/14 1/19 1/ 2 1/19 1/ 1 10/13 1/ 1 SCR
Pacific Golden-Plover 7/30 8/ 4 7/27 DNo,JAb
American Golden-Plover 7/27 PJM
Golden-Plover sp 7/24
Snowy Plover 5/12 4/ 6 8/13 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 9/14 PJM
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 10/30 11/ 1 7/24 7/21 4/17 4/17 SCR
Black Turnstone 10/30 8/17 10/27 8/17 MJM
Red Knot 9/24 4/26 4/30 10/12 4/26 MJM
Sanderling 1/14 8/17 1/ 7 1/17 1/ 1 1/ 1 SCR
Semipalmated Sandpiper 5/12 7/ 6 8/13 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
White-rumped Sandpiper 9/ 4 9/ 4 9/ 4 9/ 4 9/ 4 9/ 3 NLe
Baird's Sandpiper 8/12 8/16 8/13 8/13 8/12 4/13 AJa
Pectoral Sandpiper 9/ 2 8/29 9/ 2 8/31 9/ 2 7/30 AJa
Sharp-tailed Sandpiper 10/ 4 10/ 4 10/ 5 10/ 4 10/ 4 10/ 3 NLe
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 8/27 8/24 8/22 8/24 8/28 8/20 NLe
Buff-breasted Sandpiper 9/ 2 9/ 6 9/ 1 9/ 1 AJa
Ruff 9/ 4 10/ 4 10/ 5 9/ 4 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 11/ 2 1/ 1 1/ 1 SCR
Wilson's Phalarope 6/25 6/15 7/29 6/17 5/10 9/ 4 4/22 AJa
Red-necked Phalarope 4/ 1 7/ 4 7/29 7/28 4/20 9/ 4 4/ 1 MMR
Red Phalarope 10/20 RCo,RLe
Pomarine Jaeger
Parasitic Jaeger
Long-tailed Jaeger
Laughing Gull 11/30 11/30 11/30 11/30 11/29 TGr
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 10/17 10/17 SCR
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 10/11 10/26 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 10/ 8 10/ 7 10/ 8 10/ 8 10/ 7 10/10 10/ 7 SCR
Caspian Tern 3/ 6 4/26 8/30 4/ 5 3/ 6 7/13 3/ 6 SCR,MMR
Elegant Tern 10/18 10/17 10/ 2 PJM
Common Tern 10/26 10/17 10/17 SCR
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 10/ 8 NLe,RWR
Black Skimmer 1/ 1 1/ 5 1/ 9 1/ 3 1/ 1 1/ 3 1/ 1 SCR,MMR
Common Murre 8/29 8/29 8/29 8/29 MLF
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 10/12 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 10/12 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 9/19 9/19 SCR,SBT
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 8/11 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 8/30 9/ 1 9/ 1 8/31 5/27 5/18 LCh
Least Flycatcher 9/10 CCRS
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 10/10 10/10 10/ 5 DSt
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 9/29 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 10/12 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 11/ 4 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 5/14 5/13 5/13 5/13 SCR
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 9/13 1/ 8 MMR
Chestnut-sided Warbler
Magnolia Warbler 10/26 10/25 10/26 10/25 10/25 MJM,SCR
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 9/28 AJa
Blackburnian Warbler
Prairie Warbler 11/22 11/21 11/23 11/21 11/21 SCR
Palm Warbler 1/ 5 1/11 1/ 4 1/ 3 1/ 3 1/ 3 MLF,CKS
Blackpoll Warbler
Black-and-White Warbler
American Redstart 8/ 8 8/16 8/11 8/12 8/ 7 8/ 7 SCR
Prothonotary Warbler
Worm-eating Warbler
Ovenbird 9/23 CCRS
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 8/11 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 9/ 3 4/20 AV
Rose-breasted Grosbeak
Black-headed Grosbeak 4/ 3 4/ 5 4/17 3/21 4/ 3 9/ 5 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 10/ 7 10/ 7 10/ 5 BHa
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 9/28 10/12 9/28 MMR
Black-chinned Sparrow 5/ 6 5/10 5/10 5/17 5/ 6 MMR
Vesper Sparrow 10/ 5 CCRS,NLe
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 11/14 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 11/27 11/27 MJM
White-throated Sparrow 10/12 11/ 7 4/17 11/11 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 11/ 2 NLe
Chestnut-collared Longspur
Bobolink 9/ 1 9/ 1 MJM
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 10/21 10/17 10/21 10/21 10/18 10/17 MJM
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.
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From email@hidden Mon Dec 01 19:01:36 1997
Subject: birds
On Thursday, 27 Nov 97, I went to the Palo Alto Flood Control Basin, =
and this time I got my SWAMP SPARROW=21 I walked around to the =
back of the maintenance yard along the gravel levee that borders the =
north end of the north pond. The bird was in the cattail area that borders =
the pickleweed marsh, before you get to Matadero Creek. There were =
also 32 REDHEADS on the north pond. =
On Saturday, 29 Nov 97, I drove up Mt. Hamilton Road and along =
Kincaid Road, hoping for Townsend's Solitaire or Vesper Sparrow. I =
found neither. I had a female COMMON MERGANSER flying by in =
the drainage along Kincaid Road, and heard my first VARIED =
THRUSH of the season. A RED-BREASTED SAPSUCKER was =
working the walnut trees along Mt. Hamilton Road near Quimby. =
On Sunday morning, 30 Nov 97, I went first thing to the Palo Alto =
Duck Pond. I checked the gulls on the pond and the estuary, and then =
walked around the path that borders the lagoon. When I came full =
circle, Nick Lethaby was there and we continued checking gulls on the =
estuary. Finally, we decided to go to the dump next to Byxbee Park and =
check those gulls, eventually wandering up the hill to overlook the outer =
flood control basin. Here we had about 500 CANVASBACKS, 3 male =
EURASIAN WIGEONS (one possibly associating with a female), and a =
partial albino GREEN-WINGED TEAL. The gulls we checked through =
included a few MEW and THAYER'S GULLS. When we returned to =
the duck pond, Nick immediately found the LAUGHING GULL sitting =
on the water. We watched for a minute before it took off and flew out =
over the estuary, just as Frank Vanslager arrived. We searched the =
estuary and then picked it up flying back to the duck pond, where it =
settled in fighting for food that people were throwing to the birds. We =
got killer views for the next 20 minutes or so, with Mike Feighner and =
Ann Verdi arriving as well, before I left. It looked to be attaining some =
second-winter plumage, transitioning from first-summer. =
Mike Mammoser
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From email@hidden Tue Dec 02 07:38:58 1997
Subject: Laughing Gull still at PA Duck Pond
Arrived at pond at 7:10 this morning. Intimidated by rockers and coots
when eating rice on the berm.
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From email@hidden Tue Dec 02 14:13:14 1997
Subject: Western Tanager
This morning I checked the stretch of Palo Alto Avenue between Middlefield
Cowper in Palo Alto. Unfortunately, the Euc. just west of Webster has been
decimated. However, the large Euc. at the northwest corner of Middlefield
and Palo Alto was in flower and lively. Among the birds in this tree was a
female-type Western Tanager. I would not be surprised if more than one Western
Tanager was present: in one early glimpse I thought I was seeing a male;
and still earlier I heard one calling from near (or across) Middlefield a
bit farther south.
Al Eisner
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From email@hidden Tue Dec 02 16:29:05 1997
Subject: Palo Alto
All,
On Friday 11/28/97 I made a quick try for Mike Mammoser's Swamp
Sparrow, but failed to find this bird among the many Lincoln's
and Song Sparrows present. I did have a MERLIN hunting over this
corner of the Flood Control Basin and an ORANGE-CROWNED WARBLER
in the Matadero Riparian.
On Sunday 11/30/97 I enjoyed close views of the LAUGHING GULL
at the Palo Alto duck pond with numerous others. The LAUGHING
GULL was still present today 12/2/97 at about 2:00pm, but later
flew off in the direction of the airport. Also here were the
immature GREATER WHITE-FRONTED GOOSE, a second-winter MEW GULL,
and a first-winter THAYER'S GULL.
As others have noted, the plumage of the LAUGHING GULL seems
somewhat intermediate between a first-winter and second-winter
bird. It still has much black in the tail and white-tipped
black secondaries. However, most of the wing coverts are
gray already and those brown feathers that remain are quite
orange and very worn and faded, suggesting that they are quite
old. The bird has fresh new tertials that match the 2nd
winter illustration in NGS, not the brown feathers shown for
1st winter. Also the outer tail feathers are largely white
with more limited dark markings on the outer web than what
is depicted for a 1st winter bird - perhaps these are newly
grown second-winter tail feathers? Either this bird is a very
advanced 1st winter bird (rather surprising this early in the
winter) or a 2nd winter bird that has barely begun its molt
into "2nd winter" plumage.
Mike Rogers
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From email@hidden Tue Dec 02 19:11:35 1997
Subject: more birds
I forgot to mention that on Thursday, 27 Nov 97, I had a BLUE-GRAY GNATCATCH=
ER
and an ORANGE-CROWNED WARBLER along Stevens Creek downstream from the end o=
f
L'Avenida in Mt. View.
Mike Mammoser
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From email@hidden Tue Dec 02 20:53:14 1997
Subject: SBBU Update
Larry Tunstall has updated the Bay Area Calendar for December 6-12 for SBBU.
Mike Rogers has updated the 1997 SANTA CLARA COUNTY YEAR LIST as of December 1.
There are now 300 species. Only 4 more are needed for a new record. Mike
has suggested the species to look for, and where to look.
Kendric
South Bay Birders Unlimited (SBBU)
http://www-leland.stanford.edu/~kendric/birds/
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From email@hidden Wed Dec 03 08:34:55 1997
Subject: BWTE, BRPE
All:
On my bike commute this morning, 12/3/97, I counted five male and three
female BLUE-WINGED TEAL in the the North Pond in the Palo Alto FCB beside the
bike path just before sunrise. An adult BROWN PELICAN was over Shoreline
Lake.
Bill
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From email@hidden Wed Dec 03 12:10:17 1997
Subject: Eastern Phoebe
All:
This morning, Maria and I finally saw (after perhaps 5 tries) the
Eastern Phoebe in Shady Oaks Park in San Jose. Calvin Lou's advice
was helpful: Walk into the orchard from the 'Jungle Jim' maybe 150-200
yards. BUT ANGLE A LITTLE TOWARD THE ROAD, and away from the riparian
area. Find the gray VW hood on the ground. The bird was foraging within
20-40 yards of that hood. It called only once, during the half hour we
were there, but that was enough to help find it.
John Meyer
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From email@hidden Wed Dec 03 12:17:39 1997
Subject: San Jose/Palo Alto CBCs
Hello Everyone,
This is a call to all you dedicated birders to please consider joining
us on the San Jose CBC (Sunday, Dec 21) and the Palo Alto CBC (Monday, Dec 22).
For information and sign-up for the Palo Alto Count, please contact the
SCVAS office at 408-252-3747 or volunteer coordinator Merry Haveman at
650-344-2146. The Palo Alto CBC especially needs counters in the Santa
Cruz Mountain foothills.
As compiler for the San Jose CBC, I also have some specific requests and
needs. We especially need experienced counters in the Alviso Sector,
an important sector for waterfowl and unusual wintering vagrants. Other
sectors still looking for experienced (and non-experienced) counters are
listed below.
Sector A - Alviso*
Team Leader: Dick Carlson
650-494-3160
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*Includes Alviso Salt Ponds, Arzino Ranch, EEC, CCRS, Coyote Creek riparian
Sector B - Fremont Hills*
Team Leader: Craig Breon
408-252-3748
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*Includes a portion of Ed Levin CP
Sector C - Calaveras*
Team Leader: Kep Stone
408-263-3395 (evenings)
*This sector is in pretty good shape as far as counters, but is interesting
as that it covers Calaveras Reservoir and the boondocks
Sector E - Evergreen*
Team Leader: Mary Simpson
408-370-2177
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*This sector includes Lake Cunningham, wintering home of the LBBG
Sector F - South (Central San Jose)*
Team Leader: Clysta Seney
408-261-9431
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*Urban riparian corridors and parks, including Kelly Park (site of the
countdown dinner)
Sector G - South Central (Santa Clara)*
Team Leader: Mark Miller
650-967-3429
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*Includes SJ Airport, Guadalupe River (possible Ferruginous Hawk), Carmelite
Monastery
Sector H - Agnew*
Team Leader: Grant Hoyt
650-969-7892
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*Includes Guadalupe River & Coyote Creek riparian; Mission College; Calabasas
Creek
To participate in the SJ CBC, please contact one of the sector leaders
listed above, or you can contact me, Ann Verdi, at the following:
(h) 408-266-5108
(w) 408-749-2199
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After the count, we have a countdown dinner at the Leininger Center in
Kelly Park in San Jose.
Hope to see you at one or both of Bottom-of-the-Bay CBC's!
Thanks, Ann
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From email@hidden Wed Dec 03 15:12:58 1997
Subject: Favor to ask on Gull sightings
Hi everyone,
I have a favor to ask. A fellow rehabber has a Franklin's Gull in her care
that came in from the Santa Cruz oil spill. Other than being oiled, the
bird has a number of puncture wounds that it is recovering from. Knowing
that Franklin's do not winter this far north we are trying to come up with
an appropriate release site for this individual. I remember two years ago
a wintering Franklin's at the Sunnyvale Treatment Plant, but though that it
would be better to release with other small gulls such as Bonaparte (sp?)
Gulls.
I would like to hear about any Bonaparte Gull sightings that anyone has
over the next two weeks. Who knows this may be an individual that will
hang around to be counted on the County year list.
Thanks in advance for any information you can provide.
Karen
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To: SOUTH-BAY-BIRDS@LISTS
cc: ML.KAH(Karen.Hoyt)
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From email@hidden Wed Dec 03 15:57:37 1997
Subject: LAGU
Hello all
I'm not sure if "LAGU" is the correct abreviation for Laughing Gull,
but that's what I am referring to.
Today(12/3) I watched the gull for about an hour from 12:30 TO 1:30PM
at the Palo Alto Duck Pond. It quite readily comes close when fed
scraps of bread. Les Chibana arrived and we both were able to get
many closeup photo's of the gull both on the water and on land, where
it showed it's black legs and feet well.
By the way, when I first arrived, the LAGU was roosting with about a
hundred other gulls, mostly Ring-Billed Gulls, in the field between
the airport Terminal building and the duck pond.
Regards
Alan W.
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From email@hidden Wed Dec 03 16:14:59 1997
Subject: Re: Favor to ask on Gull sig
Karen,
There were about three Bonapart Gulls soaring high over the PA Duckpond today
at about 1:30p, just after the Laughing Gull left. It would be in good company
there :-). (The Laughing Gull seemed to be headed in the direction of the
dump.)
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Les Chibana, Mountain View, CA email@hidden
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From email@hidden Wed Dec 03 16:55:26 1997
Subject: Grant Ranch Raptors
All,
Although birding was slow on the SCVAS field trip to Grant Ranch Co. Park the
wind brought out at least two Golden Eagles (interacting, with at least one
overhead most of the morning), one Ferruginous Hawk and one Prairie Falcon
(both in the same view at one point, the PRFA seen at least three times
during the morning), many Red-tailed Hawks (one very dark phased), a
Red-shouldered Hawk, a couple of White-tailed Kites and a couple of American
Kestrels.
Take care,
Bob Reiling, 4:44 PM, 12/3/97
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From email@hidden Wed Dec 03 17:36:56 1997
Subject: Re: Favor to ask on Gull sightings
I really question whether it is appropriate to deposit a bird a thousand
miles (or more?) from where its species spends the winter. There must be a
reason why Franklin's Gulls do NOT routinely winter in our climate (or any-
where in the U.S.), but Bonaparte's Gulls do. Probably someone more know-
ledgable than I am needs to comment about this.
At the very least, it would certainly cause a lot of confusion for
rarity-chasers, unless exceedingly well publicized!
Cheers, Al Eisner
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Subject: LAGU plumage
All:
Tuesday (2 Dec.), I saw the LAUGHING GULL again at the Palo Alto duck pond.
This bird was very cooperative (as it has been when it's been present),
and I got to study the plumage very well. I also got pretty good in-flight
video.
I don't see how this bird could possibly be in its second year as some
have proposed. Granted, this bird has more gray coverts than I would have
expected at this time of year, and I certainly would not have expected
a first-year LAGU to have "adult-type" tertials this early. However, the
bird still retains quite a few juvenal coverts, more I think than some
observers realize. The innermost 2-3 greater coverts and most of the
median, lesser, and marginal coverts are new gray feathers. However, the
vast majority of greater upper-secondary coverts are still juvenal
feathers, and several of the outermost median, lesser, and even marginal
coverts are juvenal feathers. I would agree that the retained juvenal
median, lesser, and marginal coverts are very worn, but the greater
coverts are not "very worn and faded". Incidentally, the "first-
winter" LAGU in the Master Guide shows a lot of gray in the coverts.
The primaries, secondaries, and rectrices are very fresh. Although I
heard from at least one observer that the secondaries were very worn,
they clearly are not. They also have the blackish centers and white
tips typical of juvenal feathers, with much more black than would be
present on a second-winter bird. If this were a second-year bird just
beginning to replace its rectrices, then at least some of these tail
feathers should be very old, faded, and worn. The outermost rectrices
are, as Mike Rogers described, mostly white with only a small oblong
black streak subterminally. However, even if these are not juvenal
feathers, they are not necessarily "second-winter" feathers. Some
individuals of the smaller gull species can replace a few tail
feathers in their first winter, and some of these birds have already
begun; I've already seen single first-winter Bonaparte's, Mew, and
Ring-billed Gulls that had replaced a pair of juvenal rectrices with
all-white ones.
The tips of the axillaries are dark; those of second-winter Laughing
Gulls should be whitish.
Really, the only character that seems unusual for a first-winter bird
is the fresh adult-type tertials, but given all the problems with
this bird being a second-year individual, I think it's first-winter.
Nick Lethaby suggested to me that perhaps some southerly-breeding
Laughing Gulls (e.g., from west Mexico) might breed so early that
by this time, some individuals are more advanced than we'd expect.
Sounds pretty plausible to me.
Steve Rottenborn
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Subject: Oldsquaw at Pescadero etc.
All,
On Sunday afternoon, 11/30/97, I had an extended view of a female OLDSQUAW
in winter plumage in the North Pond at Pescadero Marsh. She was very close
to Hwy 1 in the center of the crowded pond.
On the morning of Tuesday, 12/2/97, I was on Portola State Park road at its
junction with Alpine Rd., sifting through a large mixed flock of TOWNSEND'S
and YELLOW-RUMPED WARBLERS mixed with 40 or more BUSHTITS and a few
CHESTNUT-BACKED CHICKADEES, when a single BLACK-HEADED GROSBEAK began to
vocalize in the poison-oak thicket just to the South of that junction.
After a few minutes the bird appeared briefly and proved to be an immature
male.
--Garth Harwood
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From email@hidden Fri Dec 05 13:11:09 1997
Subject: Re: feeding ban
Last week Nick Lethaby (I think) said he had heard something about a
bird-feeding ban in San Mateo Co, and asked for more information. Last
night I caught an item about this on one of the local news reports. I
unfortunately missed the beginning of the story, but from what I heard it
applies to San Mateo Co. parks, not to the entire County (and of course
not to individual's backyard feeders). Given that, it sounds like a good
idea. It is apparently a misdemeanor, punishable by fine or jail(!). They
(park spokespersons) indicated some uncertainty about how they would enforce
it.
Al Eisner
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Subject: the ban on feeding wildlife
Hi Everyone--
>From what I could glean from the 10:00 news, the law applies to public
parks, and gives park rangers a tool to control abusers. It is not a
firm prohibition. Enforcement is at the discretion of the ranger.
Mark
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From email@hidden Sat Dec 06 11:44:00 1997
Subject: SCVAS 12/6/97 Highlights
Hi All,
The monthly trip to Charleston Slough turned up the following
highlights:
5-7 Barrow's Goldeneye on Shoreline Lake
1 Say's Phoebe near the Pump House
1 AMERICAN BITTERN in Adobe Creek near the first bench
15 SKIMMERS on an island in the slough near the second bench
1 Peregrine Falcon on a stake in the Flood Control Basin
1 male Ring-necked duck in Adobe Creek near the pump house
Finally, I had 1 swallow sp. very high up and flying away
Of course all the commonly seen species of ducks, shorebirds & raptors.
Nick Yatsko
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From email@hidden Sat Dec 06 12:52:32 1997
Subject: Western Tanager (2) at San Francisquito Creek
Two WESTERN TANAGERs were in the large eucalyptus next to San
Francisquito Creek near the intersection of Middlefield Road and
Palo Alto Avenue between 8:15 and 9:15 AM this morning, Saturday,
12/6/97.
Thanks to Al Eisner for discovering these.
The LAUGHING GULL was present at the Palo Alto Duck Pond at 9:30
Saturday.
- Dick
Richard Stovel email@hidden
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From email@hidden Sat Dec 06 17:17:03 1997
Subject: Saturday birds
Having got up at 3.00 am to join Mike Rogers and Mike Mammoser owling, I
found I had a temperature and mild shivers, all suggesting flu (hopefully
not). This sent me back to bed but I did do an easy car-based circuit later
in the day.
At Calaveras Res., I saw 3 Golden Eagles, an adult Bald Eagle and a
Peregrine. Sierra summit added v. close looks of a Golden Eagle, a Cooper's
Hawk, Lark Sparrows and Horned Larks. At Cunningham Lake I had excellent
views of both the Red-necked Grebe and the Lesser Black-backed, which
appears to have made little progress on molting.
Incidentally, I don't agree with the claims that the legs above the knees
are yellowish. They appeared more a pale greenish-gray.
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From email@hidden Sun Dec 07 10:02:58 1997
Subject: Re: Laughing Gull plumage
I previously commented on the upperwing (secondary) coverts on the Palo
Alto Laughing Gull -- brown outermost feathers on apparently both the lesser
and median covert tracts, vs. gray otherwise -- and Steve Rottenborn has
posted a much more complete, clear description. Although I missed this in
first reading, Grant's book on Gulls does refer to this effect. He notes
that the moult into first winter plumage replaces a variable number of
juvenal wing covert feathers with gray ones, particularly among the median
coverts. So far as I can tell (unless I've still missed something), he
does not discuss the tertials at all.
Al
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From email@hidden Sun Dec 07 12:38:39 1997
Subject: weekend birds
All,
Yesterday 12/6/97, I met Mike Mammoser at 4:30am for some owling at
Monte Bello OSP. We failed to find a Long-eared Owl, but did have
2 NORTHERN PYGMY-OWLS, 3 GREAT HORNED OWLS, and 5 to 6 WESTERN
SCREECH-OWLS. After dawn there was no sign of any Pileated
Woodpecker, but we did have about 20 PURPLE FINCH heading south
(migrants?). Also had some thrush flocks heading south that may have
also been migrants, including AMERICAN ROBIN, VARIED THRUSH, and
2 CEDAR WAXWINGS. Other birds of interest included a female NORTHERN
HARRIER near the pond (which contained at least one VIRGINIA RAIL),
40+ BAND-TAILED PIGEONS, 1 SAPSUCKER SP. heard, 65 COMMON RAVENS
streaming towards the bay in several groups, several PYGMY NUTHATCHES,
5 HUTTON'S VIREOS and at least one TOWNSEND'S WARBLER.
At 8:30am we left and headed for the San Antonio Valley, reaching the
Mt. Hamilton summit at about 10:30am. We spent from then until 4:50pm
covering San Antonio Valley Road, Del Puerto Road, and Mines Road to
the Alameda County line, battling light rain and fog for some of the
time. We did manage to locate the area's specialties, including
3 LEWIS'S WOODPECKERS (at, and south of, the yellow gate),
3 PHAINOPEPLAS (a male and a heard bird at the old nest site a mile or
so south of the yellow gate and another male just north of the fire
station near the junction), a single SAGE SPARROW along Del Puerto
Road east of the first pond, and an adult PRAIRIE FALCON sitting on a
post north of the Mallinson Ranch. Also had a single perched GOLDEN
EAGLE along Del Puerto Road, a COMMON SNIPE well east of the Arnold
Ranch, 1 RED-BREASTED SAPSUCKER while descending Mt. Hamilton, a
single LINCOLN'S SPARROW in the wet area across from the Digger Pine
Ranch, and a PURPLE FINCH overhead east of the Arnold Ranch. A
GREAT HORNED OWL perched on a telephone pole at milepost 13.5 in
Alameda County finished off the day.
Highlight of the trip, though, was probably pishing up 93+ FOX
SPARROWS at various chamise fields throughout the route. Most of
these birds appeared to be of the race "altivagans", which is probably
not surprising since this race supposedly prefers hard arid chaparral
in winter in California. The NGS illustration of this race matches
these birds fairly well, except they seemed to show more gray in the
face (clearer gray supercilium and more gray around the auriculars).
Figure 40a of Plate 15 in Rising does show this greater extent of
gray, but the colors appear a bit dark. The red tail and rump of
these birds is quite noticeable as the in-flight illustration in
Rising suggests. We did, however, have two birds (one while
descending Mt Hamilton before reaching Isabel Creek, the other near
the Sage Sparrow along Del Puerto Road) that appeared to be possibly
of the race "schistacea", with all gray heads, napes, and backs.
These birds still had yellow lower mandibles (like the Rising
illustration, but contrary to NGS) and although quite different from
the other birds, could perhaps be the same race, as we also had two
birds that were somewhat intermediate (perhaps this is why these races
are both in the "Slate-colored" Fox Sparrow group). The gray of the
head and back was not quite as pale as that shown in the NGS guide and
probably not quite as extensive on the scapulars. The Rising
illustration is a good match, although perhaps being a bit dark as
with "altivagans". The illustrations in Byers, Curson, and Olsson
appear quite misleading, with "altivagans" appearing too red (like the
eastern forms) and schistacea not gray enough on the back.
This morning 12/7/97 before the deluge I checked the Palo Alto Flood
Control Basin for Mike Mammoser's Swamp Sparrow. While heading out
along the Matadero Riparian I had a single VIOLET-GREEN SWALLOW fly
over, and while searching for the SWSP there were up to 6 VIOLET-GREEN
SWALLOWS overhead at once during most of the time. I flushed up an
AMERICAN BITTERN and enjoyed watching an adult PEREGRINE FALCON hunt
over the FCB before finally hearing and getting a glimpse of a SWAMP
SPARROW. Mike Mammoser, having seen my car parked, came out to join
me while I was trying to refind the SWSP and commented that the
habitat was so good that there were probably multiple Swamp Sparrows
present. Shortly after this two SWAMP SPARROWS started calling from
the reed edge and we watched both birds foraging simultaneously. I
showed Mike the VIOLET-GREEN SWALLOWS foraging over the FCB and more
careful counting revealed at least 11 birds at this point. We decided
to make a quick check of the Palo Alto Baylands and headed back to our
cars. While walking back along Matadero Creek I got nice looks at a
HUTTON'S VIREO, which seemed out of place here. At the duck pond the
LAUGHING GULL was still swimming around, along with 2 BONAPARTE'S
GULLS and the immature GREATER WHITE-FRONTED GOOSE.
Mike Rogers
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From email@hidden Mon Dec 08 04:47:09 1997
Subject: Saturday birds
All,
Spent some time Saturday morning at the Palo Alto Duck Pond and the bay
across the street from the duck pond Saturday morning. Had good views of
the LAUGHING GULL as well as the flock of over 250 BONAPARTE'S GULLS. The
shorebirds were going wild as the mud became exposed by the receding tide.
Amongst the thousands of shorebirds were seven basic plumaged RED KNOTs
which seemed a bit unusual. They were in a flock rather close to my
viewing spot immediately across from the entrance to the duck pond. At
about 9:30, a RED-THROATED LOON (identified by size, color, and bill shape)
flew in from the bay and over my viewing area and then angled north about
1/4 further west and continued north (returning to San Mateo county?).
All in all, a fun place for shorebird viewing which included 14 species of
shorebirds, SHARP-SHINNED and COOPER'S HAWKS, and many CANVASBACK. Also
had a few CLAPPER RAILs playing in the grasses before the tide receded.
Happy birding..........
Jim Danzenbaker
San Jose, CA
408-264-7582 (408-ANI-SKUA)
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From email@hidden Mon Dec 08 18:03:37 1997
Subject: Swamp Sparrow, American Bittern, and White-fronted Goose
All:
Today after work I thought I'd make another go at the Swamp Sparrow. I
parked at Terminal and San Antonio and walked to the Palo Alto Flood
Control Basin from there wearing my fishing boots. I walked along the
gravel road between the animal clinic counting only 6 Redhead on the
North Pond. I spent considerable time working the reeds around the
north-west end of the North Pond. At one point the boots were almost
not high enough....finally I was able to come across one of the two
Swamp Sparrows seen by Mike Rogers and Mike Mammoser yesterday foraging
through the reeds. I also flushed up an American Bittern near the old
man-hole cover. There were no swallows around.
None of the 15 Black Skimmers were around. Shoreline Lake had two Brown
Pelicans and only two Surf Scoters. I was hoping the bad weather would
have brought in a White-winged Scoter or a Black Scoter.
The Palo Alto Duck Pond had the immature White-fronted Goose, but the
Laughing Gull was not present.
Mike Feighner, Livermore, CA, email@hidden
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From email@hidden Tue Dec 09 10:45:56 1997
Subject: Blue-Winged Teal at FCB
Don't know if this would be considered interesting -
There were a couple of BLUE-WINGED TEAL in the Palo Alto Flood Control Basin
on Sunday. Near the parking lot south of the animal center on the
Frontage Rd.
Vivek Tiwari
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From email@hidden Tue Dec 09 12:23:25 1997
Subject: PAFCB
All,
A quick check of the Palo Alto Flood Control Basin this morning
failed to turn up the reported Clay-colored Sparrow, but there
were still 7 BLUE-WINGED TEAL (4 males, 3 females all paired with
males - 1 pair courting), 12 REDHEADS, and a SORA swimming across
a channel.
Mike
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From email@hidden Tue Dec 09 13:50:33 1997
Subject: Thornton area, Los Banos
This weekend, a group from my birding class toured the Thornton Area
(Woodbridge, Blossom, Staten Island Roads), Oak Grove Park (NW corner of
Stockton), and the Los Banos area (Santa Fe Grade [SFG], Sandymush, Combs, and
Lone Tree Roads, Merced Nat'l Wildlife Refuge [MNWR], and Volta Pond) The
weather was birdable with intermittent rain both days until just after noon on
Sunday when the rain finally overwhelmed us. Saturday in the Thornton area and
SFG, we had warm temps; Sunday near Los Banos it turned very cold.
The high levels of rain have provided many pockets of water and may have
spread the distribution of birds. Some impressions from our short time in
these limited areas:
> There was a higher concentration of SANDHILL CRANES in the Thorton area than
in the Los Banos area.
> Small groups of TUNDRA SWAN were found along Woodbridge Rd., and a small
group were seen in Volta Pond on Henry Miller Rd. The previous Sunday, there
were several hundred along Woodbridge Rd.
> Very few duck species were in evidence, highest numbers were of NORTHERN
PINTAILS and NORTHERN SHOVELERS. An active hunting season may explain a lack
of ducks along SFG.
Highlights of the trip:
> Less than 50 SANDHILL CRANES seen in the Merced NWR (MNWR) vicinity, a very
low number; a few thousand in Thornton area
> Under 20 TUNDRA SWAN at Woodbridge Rd.
> Good views of a PRAIRIE FALCON along Woodbridge Rd.
> 100's of WHITE-FACED IBIS along Santa Fe Grade in groups averaging 20-25
birds
> 5 AMERICAN BITTERN along Santa Fe Grade; 3 on the auto tour at MNWR
> Large flock of predominantly TRICOLORED BLACKBIRDS along Combs Rd. east of
MNWR
> A LESSER and GREATER YELLOWLEGS foraging together at MNWR
> Over 1 dozen COMMON SNIPE in a flock at MNWR
> Several thousand SNOW GOOSE with 3-4 blue morphs at MNWR
> Approx. 12 CATTLE EGRET with IBIS and SNOWY EGRETS along Gun Club Rd., west
of Santa Fe Grade
> MARBLED GODWIT, VIOLET-GREEN and CLIFF SWALLOWS at MNWR
> Medium-sized tern sp. (Forster's?) along Santa Fe Grade
> A partial albino AMERICAN COOT at Volta Pond
The species total was 93. The complete list will be posted soon on the SBBU
site: http://www-leland.stanford.edu/~kendric/birds/
Oak Grove Regional Park is a developed park in the middle of a nice grove of
Valley Oak. We saw most of the passerine species here. In the past I've seen
many Varied Thrush here, but this weekend the most notable birds were a
foraging flock of CANADA GOOSE and the numerous YELLOW-BILLED MAGPIE.
Les
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From email@hidden Tue Dec 09 15:35:56 1997
Subject: Merlin
Hi Everyone--
As I write, there's a MERLIN sitting in the sweetgum tree outside my
window at Lockheed Martin (B/107), oblivious to passers-by walking
beneath it. There have been Merlins wintering in this area before, but
I'm not sure if this is a returnee or not.
Mark
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From email@hidden Tue Dec 09 16:53:09 1997
Subject: more PAFCB
All,
Another check of the frontage road area of the PAFCB at mid-day
again produced no unusual sparrows, but the number of BLUE-WINGED
TEAL was up, with 9 males present at once in the North Pond. Also
the number of REDHEAD increased slightly to 15 (10 males & 5 females).
Mike Rogers
12/9/97
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From email@hidden Tue Dec 09 16:53:25 1997
Subject: Bay Calendar & Merlie
Larry Tunstall has updated the Bay Area Calendar for December 13-19 for SBBU.
and
Additional sightings of Merlie the Merlin.
Kendric
South Bay Birders Unlimited (SBBU)
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From email@hidden Wed Dec 10 11:22:31 1997
Subject: Request for Merlin Sightings
To All:
Since our Merlin doesn't stay on his tree near our house all the time (see
Merlie's Home Page on SBBU), he must go elsewhere, but WHERE?
When you see a Merlin in the Stanford, Palo Alto, Mountain View, Los Altos,
Menlo Park area, would you please send an e-mail to me describing the bird (if
possible), i.e., light or dark gray, or brownish, and the nearest cross
streets or other landmark that I can find on a map so that I can put a mark on
a map.
Many thanks,
Kendric Smith
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From email@hidden Wed Dec 10 13:17:46 1997
Subject: Question on High Tides for Friday
Hi All,
Can someone confirm high tide at Palo Alto on Friday, December 12th. It
looks like 10:44 am, is this correct????
Thanks to everyone who passed on information on Bonaparte's gulls. The
Franklin's Gull developed a breathing problem and is not ready to go as of
yet.
Karen
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From email@hidden Wed Dec 10 14:02:46 1997
Subject: Re: Question on High Tides for Friday
Yes, high tide at Baylands Friday/12th is 10:44 at a whopping 9.43.
Saturday/13th at 11:31 is virtually the same height, 9.46. Sunday/14th
(12:16, height 9.36) is almost as high. With the current high pressure
and so fair weather, pray for calm air, not west winds.
Todd Newberry
Santa Cruz
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From email@hidden Wed Dec 10 18:22:46 1997
Subject: Early nest-site selection?
All,
Today, 12/10/97, I observed Chestnut-backed Chickadees repeatedly entering
nestboxes at my orchard in Pescadero. Later, at the SCVAS office, a pair of
Oak Titmice spent several minutes at a nestbox just outside my office
window. One of the pair entered the box and emerged thirty seconds later
with a wood shaving (we are now sprinkling some shavings in the bottom of
nestboxes intended for smaller birds as this seems to be agreeable to
them.) Isn't this early for this kind of behavior?
--Garth Harwood
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From email@hidden Wed Dec 10 19:39:17 1997
Subject: Yesterday at CCRS
Birders:
During a morning survey of the CCRS Waterbird Pond yesterday I saw the
adult Lesser Black-backed Gull in the gull flock. Eventually a raptor went
over and flushed the gulls and I was able to follow the Lesser Black-back
with my scope right into the middle of the dump, this was at about 11am. A
Peregrine Falcon went over the pond at 1000h.
I have been in Chile for a while and missed a lot of the neat gull finds.
Would someone be willing to let me know how one gets to the place where the
possible immature Lesser Black-backed Gull is? By the way, are there any
pictures of this bird on the internet anywhere?
Regards,
Al.
Alvaro Jaramillo
Half Moon Bay,
California
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From email@hidden Thu Dec 11 08:48:28 1997
Subject: Re: Yesterday at CCRS
At 07:39 PM 12/10/97 -0800, Alvaro Jaramillo wrote:
>Birders:
>
>During a morning survey of the CCRS Waterbird Pond yesterday I saw the
>adult Lesser Black-backed Gull in the gull flock. Eventually a raptor went
>over and flushed the gulls and I was able to follow the Lesser Black-back
>with my scope right into the middle of the dump, this was at about 11am. A
>Peregrine Falcon went over the pond at 1000h.
>
>I have been in Chile for a while and missed a lot of the neat gull finds.
>Would someone be willing to let me know how one gets to the place where the
>possible immature Lesser Black-backed Gull is?
Go down 680, exit on Capitol Expressway (NOT Avenue). GO left on Tully. The
entrance to Cunningham Lake is on your left.
By the way, are there any
>pictures of this bird on the internet anywhere?
>
>Regards,
>
>Al.
>
>
>
>Alvaro Jaramillo
>Half Moon Bay,
>California
>
>email@hidden
>
>Helm guide to the New World Blackbirds, Birding in Chile and more, at:
>
>http://www.sirius.com/~alvaro
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From email@hidden Fri Dec 12 14:19:34 1997
Subject: Ogier Ponds, Red-necked Grebe
All,
Today Frank Vanslager and I had the following birds at Ogier Ponds;
Ferruginous Hawk (1, are they all over the place?), Peregrine Falcon (1),
Osprey (1), Merlin (a female), ad Cooper's Hawk, Red-shouldered Hawk (2), Red-
tailed hawks, American Kestrels, Northern Harrier (2-3), White-tailed Kites,
Ring-necked Duck (7), Common Merganser (1 male and 3 females), Mew Gull (4),
Spotted Sandpiper (1) and a Red-necked Grebe (3rd one in the county this
winter?). 53 species and we only had four species of gulls and did not see a
Rock Dove, a Savannah Sparrow, a Golden-crowned Sparrow, a Yellow-rumped
Warbler or a Swamp Sparrow :-{( (a sad mustached birder). A surprise was a
Downey Woodpecker feeding in a three foot high bush.
Take care,
Bob Reiling, 2:10 PM, 12/12/97
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Subject: Alviso trail
This morning I walked out on saltponds to check Triangle marsh on the high
tide. I also spent a little time at the SE corner of A14.
Generally results were disappointing, with NO Short-eared Owls and only a
single Bittern. After a lot of pishing I eventually had good looks at a
Swamp Sparrow. There was a Sanderling on the flooded impoundment about 0.5
of a mile N of the parking lot. There were 8 more on A14, along with a Ruddy
Turnstone. There were also a pair of Redheads here. A Merlin flew above the
track on the way out.
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Subject: Alviso info correction
I ment A9, not A14, of course.
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From email@hidden Sat Dec 13 02:32:29 1997
Subject: SharpTail Sparrow
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From email@hidden Sat Dec 13 08:02:30 1997
Subject: GWGU and San Benito Co.
Hi everyone -
Al DeMartini, Debi Shearwater and I spent the week birding in San Benito
and adjacent counties. We did briefly make it into Santa Clara County on
Monday (12/8) to check out a nice flock of gulls along Bloomfield Road
east of Frazier Lake Road, painfully close to the county line. Among the
California, Ring-billed, Mew, Herring, and Thayer's gulls were at least
two GLAUCOUS-WINGED GULLS. I don't know what the status of this species
is in this part of Santa Clara County, but there are very few records
just over the line in San Benito.
I'm not sure if San Benito birds are supposed to be discussed on
South-Bay-Birds, but I'll give some of the highlights from the week.
There's nothing else from Santa Clara, so hit delete if you like.
The only interesting gulls we could find at San Felipe Lake were 1-2
THAYER'S GULLS. Other interesting birds from Monday included a flock of
24 TUNDRA SWANS and a HORNED GREBE, visible from Shore Road west of
Lover's Lane. Good numbers of TREE SWALLOWS (at least one flock of
80-100) were overhead. Of particular note was a mostly-albino EUROPEAN
STARLING, which was almost all white except for some beige streaking on
the head. 28-30 HOODED MERGANSERS on Anzar Lake was undoubtedly a high
count for the county. At dusk, a SHORT-EARED OWL was along Santa Ana
Road east of Hollister.
We spent most of Tuesday (12/9) in the Panoche Valley area. Paicines
Reservoir had two adult BALD EAGLES, a male REDHEAD, a female WOOD DUCK,
and a ROSS'S GOOSE. A LARK BUNTING was with Savannah Sparrows on Panoche
Road, just past the first bridge east of New Idria road. We checked all
of the Mountain Plover spots with no success. We also checked Peachtree
Valley (Monterey County) and various known spots in Kings County over
the next two days for Mountain Plovers without seeing any sign of them -
they sure are tough!
Thursday (12/11) we checked Paicines again. The Ross's Goose, Bald
Eagles, and Wood Duck were nowhere to be seen, but there were five
AMERICAN WHITE PELICANS and 50 WHITE-THROATED SWIFTS among other things.
On the way home Friday morning (12/12) in Santa Cruz County, I had an
OSPREY on a telephone pole along Hwy 1 near Four-Mile State Beach.
Bert McKee
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From email@hidden Sat Dec 13 10:46:30 1997
Subject: Re: Ferruginous Hawk
At 2:19 PM 12/12/97, RREILING2 wrote:
>Today Frank Vanslager and I had the following birds at Ogier Ponds;
>Ferruginous Hawk (1, are they all over the place?)
Today, 12/13/97, around 9:30AM Frank Vanslager and I saw a Ferruginous Hawk
in a tree along the Guadalupe on the East bank, near Taylor St. Perhaps
they are "all over the place".
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From email@hidden Sat Dec 13 12:43:25 1997
Subject: Ano Nuevo
While mentoring a new docent at Ano Nuevo, I happened to see in the
distance what appeared to be a NORTHERN HARRIER carrying some sort of
prey item. With binoculars, and as the bird drew closer, it was apparent
that it was actually an OSPREY carrying a still struggling fish in it
talons! As it flew by it was close enough to make out the fish species
as a SURFPERCH(possibly a RUBBERLIP SEAPERCH!)
-Bob
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From email@hidden Sat Dec 13 14:15:14 1997
Subject: Saturday birds
I went to Ed Levin Park and on to Calaveras Reservoir this morning. No
luck - no sapsuckers, no eagles.
On up to the Sierra Rd summit where things were better - despite no
raptors seen at all in about an hour up there! But I did see 2 ROCK WRENS,
and 1 LARK SPARROW, as well as a flock of 25 HORNED LARKS, another of 15
SAVANNAH SPARROWS, and 2 SAY'S PHOEBES.
In Alviso, a adult GOLDEN EAGLE was on one of the pylons along the road
into the EEC.
-- Tom Grey Stanford CA email@hidden
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From email@hidden Sun Dec 14 15:11:31 1997
Subject: Re: LBB Gull Tail Pattern
Nick Lethaby wrote:
>
> Last Saturday, I saw the Cunningham Lake Lesser Black back Gull in flight
> for the first time. My impression is that the tail is still extensively
> dark, with visible white confined to the sides of the base of the tail. This
> suggests that this bird has not yet begun molting its tail into
> second-winter. Any other thoughts on this?
Most of the white is at the base of the tail, predominantly on the outermost
rectrices. However, there is white on all the tail feathers, and small amounts
of white spotting or vermiculation are present well beyond the midpoint of even
some of the inner feathers. Initially I thought that the white in the tail was
very limited, but I eventually got very good views of the tail as the bird
preened, and I got some video that shows the white in the tail in detail. Overall,
the amount of white in the tail is more limited than that shown by some first-
winter LBBG that I've seen in photos, but given the fresh appearance of these
feathers (mostly black, not faded or brownish at all), I think they're probably
new second-year feathers.
Steve Rottenborn
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From email@hidden Sun Dec 14 15:41:50 1997
Subject: Saturday Birding PA & H.M. Bay (Oldsquaw)
Dear South-bay-birders,
Saturday, 13 December 1997 was rewarding for a LARGE number of birders at the
Palo Alto Baylands at "Rail Corner". There were 140+ birders at the corner
and on the boardwalk at one point, with another 30 or so searching the levees
for Sharp-tailed Sparrow. Both the BLACK RAILS and NELSON'S SHARP-TAILED
SPARROW were reported, although, personally I remained toward the back of the
crowd and did not see the Black Rails (I saw them last month when the spot was
not quite as crowded). I believe that as many as three BLACK RAILS were
observed. The NELSON'S SHARP-TAILED SPARROW was observed briefly on one of
the white PVC pipes near the airport where the levee trail became flooded. I
missed that one too! The observers at the "Rail Corner" were rewarded during
the wait for the rails by a MERLIN which nearly caught a blackbird directly
above the crowd. A PEREGRINE FALCON made a brief appearance on one of the
power towers. A SORA was observed on an exposed board out in the marsh, it
was flashing its white undertail coverts. Both CLAPPER RAIL and VIRGINIA RAIL
were seen from the levee trail. Numerous NORTHERN HARRIERS and BLACK-CROWNED
NIGHT-HERONS were observed foraging on the hapless smaller inhabitants of the
marsh. Most of the birders at the corner stayed behind the logs, but a few
were quickly scolded by the crowd and the rangers when they went in to the
limited habitat on the other side of those logs. For those visiting this
site, please remember to stay behind those logs.
Departing for less crowded surroundings, Gjon Hazard and I went to Princeton
Harbor at Half Moon Bay. We observed a beautiful male OLDSQUAW in the waters
and on the beach north of the launch ramp. Unfortunately this bird appeared
sick, it sat on the beach and seemed to be getting blown around when swimming.
Also in the waters near the launch ramp were RED-THROATED LOON, PACIFIC LOON,
COMMON LOON, PIED-BILLED GREBE, EARED GREBE, HORNED GREBE, CLARK'S GREBE &
WESTERN GREBE, COMMON GOLDENEYE; on the beach DUNLIN, SANDERLING and a GREAT
BLUE HERON were foraging at low tide; BELTED KINGFISHER and BLACK
OYSTERCATCHER were observed on the jetty. Just west of the shoreline
restraunts there was a gull flock, with one HEERMAN'S GULL, MEW GULLS,
CALIFORNIA GULLS, HERRING GULLS, THAYER'S GULLS, WESTERN GULLS, and GLAUCOUS-
WINGED GULLS. We also checked for the Dusky Flycatcher at the end of Grand
View Rd, but did not see it, although it was extremely windy and we could have
easily just missed it. Although windy, the coast was spectacular as usual.
We totaled 103 species on the day.
Good birding!
Tom
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From email@hidden Sun Dec 14 21:57:19 1997
Subject: LBB Gull Tail Pattern
Last Saturday, I saw the Cunningham Lake Lesser Black back Gull in flight
for the first time. My impression is that the tail is still extensively
dark, with visible white confined to the sides of the base of the tail. This
suggests that this bird has not yet begun molting its tail into
second-winter. Any other thoughts on this?
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From email@hidden Mon Dec 15 10:52:04 1997
Subject: Baylands
All:
Maria and I went out to the Baylands for high tide, Saturday and Sunday.
On Saturday we saw all four rails: Virginia and Clapper along the levee,
half-dozen Clappers along the boardwalk, a Sora on a board at some
distance from the Rail Corner, and a Black Rail at the corner (a good
many more were seen flying in). On Sunday, we saw two more Black
Rails scurrying along below the logs at the corner (and again more
were seen by others, flying in). No Sharp-Tailed Sparrows, but a lot of
Common Yellowthroats, both days.
It seemed on both days that with very high tides Black Rails fly in to
the corner considerably before the high point (e.g., an hour before).
On both days, we followed Steve Rottenborn's advice and went out to
the launching pier to the East, scoping across the harbor entrance to
the base of the power tower on the other side. Many Clapper Rails were
visible, and many Soras (Maria counted 14 on Sunday).
We did not see the Laughing Gull at the Duck Pond.
John Meyer
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From email@hidden Mon Dec 15 12:48:06 1997
Subject: birds
I birded this weekend at the Palo Alto Baylands, taking advantage of =
the high tides to look for rails and such. On Saturday, 13 Dec 97, I =
started at the Emily Rentzel Wetlands, looking for any unusual =
sparrows. I was unable to find anything out of the ordinary, so I went =
back to the marsh behind the maintenance yard. No Swamp Sparrows =
made any appearances this time, but I heard a SORA calling from the =
marsh and flushed up an AMERICAN BITTERN at the north end of the =
North Pond. I then went to the Baylands, first checking the Duck Pond =
for the Laughing Gull, which I couldn't find. I spent the entire high tide =
time at the =22rail corner=22. I missed the fly-in, but eventually got quick=
=
looks at 3 BLACK RAILS after the peak of the high tide. While here, =
an immature or female MERLIN tried to take a bird right over our =
heads. We could hear the wind whistling through its wings as it dove. =
An adult PEREGRINE FALCON also made an appearance. Later, an =
immature COOPER'S HAWK got things stirred up at the Duck Pond. =
Guy McCaskie was here this day, and reported a BLACK RAIL from =
the area of the outflow channel, as well as a SHARP-TAILED =
SPARROW.
On Sunday, 14 Dec 97, I went to the Baylands again, arriving about 2.5 =
hours before the peak of the tide. The Duck Pond was still missing the =
Laughing Gull, but the immature GREATER WHITE-FRONTED =
GOOSE was still hanging with the domestics. I ran into Rob and Rita =
Colwell, Rosalie Lefkowitz, and their friend Tom. We all walked out to =
the outflow channel to look for sparrows and things. A PEREGRINE =
FALCON was perched in the distance on a power tower. As we neared =
the outflow channel, the open area of water between the levee and the =
cordgrass contained a EURASIAN GREEN-WINGED TEAL. Rosalie =
spotted a SWAMP SPARROW here, and later we all got excellent =
views of this bird as it foraged in the open along the trail. I got a few =
brief glimpses of a SHARP-TAILED SPARROW, but it was definitely =
not being very cooperative. I believe that Rob and Rita also got a =
glimpse of this bird. One VIRGINIA RAIL flew across the path at one =
point, and we heard many of these, as well as SORAS and CLAPPER =
RAILS, during the time out there. After the peak of high tide, we =
headed back, amid reports of excellent views of Black Rails at the =
=22corner=22. When I got there, there were very few people remaining, and I =
=
took up a spot on the log near a good area. It didn't take long for me to =
get excellent looks at 2 BLACK RAILS moving through a good-sized =
opening, at one point both of them passing each other going in the =
opposite direction. =
Mike Mammoser
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From email@hidden Mon Dec 15 15:24:30 1997
Subject: RNGR, ANHU X COHU, etc.
All:
Today (15 Dec.), at the EEC in Alviso, the apparent hybrid male
ANNA'S X COSTA'S HUMMINGBIRD, the "RED" FOX SPARROW, and the
YELLOW WARBLER were still present near the EEC building. The
hummingbird most frequently perched on a short live oak just to
the north of the building; twice it gave a series of its unusual
"hybrid" dive-bombing displays to an adult male Anna's. The "Red"
Fox Sparrow is quite dull, and therefore probably zaboria, but
it still has a largely gray head, streaked gray and rufous back,
rufous wings and tail brighter than those of "Sooty" Fox Sparrows,
and rusty markings on the underparts. In New Chicago Marsh, visible
from the EEC, I saw a male EURASIAN WIGEON and a female BLUE-WINGED
TEAL. One LESSER YELLOWLEGS was in the flooded field at the end of
Nortech Parkway.
At Lake Cunningham, I was unable to find the Lesser Black-backed
Gull despite the presence of large numbers of other gulls (all
California and Ring-billed except for a single Thayer's). However,
there were two RED-NECKED GREBES on the lake. Unfortunately, one
of these RNGR, as well as a Pied-billed Grebe, had monofilament
line trailing from its bill, while the other RNGR had line wrapped
around its left foot. In the creek on the north side of Raging
Waters here (which I believe is Silver Creek), a SWAMP SPARROW,
and AMERICAN BITTERN, 2 VIRGINIA RAILS, and 12 SORAS were in the
cattails. I didn't cover this portion of the creek very thoroughly,
so there are probably more of all these species present there.
Good birding,
Steve Rottenborn
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From email@hidden Mon Dec 15 16:51:19 1997
Subject: Mines Rd., Panoche CBCs ?
I cannot figure out from the list of CBCs just posted as to whether
Mines Rd./Del Puerto Canyon and Panoche Valley are covered by CBCs
or not. If they are, I would be grateful for more info.
Thanks,
Vivek Tiwari
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From email@hidden Mon Dec 15 17:04:13 1997
Subject: FOX SPARROW sub-species (& hunters)
I saw an interesting FOX SPARROW at the Sunnyvale water pollution control ponds
yesterday. It was a uniform grey on the head and back. Wings and tail were
rusty. The streaks on the breast were large and rounded, more like spots and
were very rusty, and converged into a big spot in the center of the breast.
The bill was light in color and there was a faint whitish eye ring.
It did not fit any of the races of the FOX SPARROW shown in Peterson's
or the Nat-Geo guides. In fact the colors on the head and the back match
those of the "Large-billed California race", while the streaking on the
breast was similar in pattern and color to that of the "Eastern form"
shown in Petersons.
Curious as to what the common race of this bird is in this area?
Also if it tends to be a (common?) winter migrant or resident?
Thanks,
Vivek Tiwari
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PS: I did not venture far towards the ponds since I could hear gunfire.
Also saw a couple of hunters on bicycles, carrying guns and dead ducks.
Where does the shooting take place and on what days? Did not see any warning
signs about the presence of hunters.
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From email@hidden Mon Dec 15 18:29:43 1997
Subject: Re: FOX SPARROW sub-species (& hunters)
At 05:04 PM 12/15/97 -0800, you wrote:
>
>I saw an interesting FOX SPARROW at the Sunnyvale water pollution control
ponds
>yesterday. It was a uniform grey on the head and back. Wings and tail were
>rusty. The streaks on the breast were large and rounded, more like spots and
>were very rusty, and converged into a big spot in the center of the breast.
>The bill was light in color and there was a faint whitish eye ring.
>
>It did not fit any of the races of the FOX SPARROW shown in Peterson's
>or the Nat-Geo guides. In fact the colors on the head and the back match
>those of the "Large-billed California race", while the streaking on the
>breast was similar in pattern and color to that of the "Eastern form"
>shown in Petersons.
>
>Curious as to what the common race of this bird is in this area?
>Also if it tends to be a (common?) winter migrant or resident?
The common form throughout the Bay Area is the coastal or "Sooty" Fox
Sparrow. This designation actually involves several different subspecies,
identification beyond the Sooty subspecies group is an exercise in futility
in my experience. Your Sunnyvale bird does seem odd, it doesn't really fit
any of the typical forms. The key feature to notice on the "Eastern" (also
known as "Rusty") Fox Sparrow is that it is rusty and has a streaked back,
your solidly coloured back excludes this form as a possibility. The
"Slate-colored" and "Thick-billed" Fox Sparrows are solidly grey on the
head and back, but they should have dark brown to blackish streaking on the
underparts. The "Thick-billed" Fox Sparrow is easily identified by its
really big beak, which tends to be greyish on the lower mandible instead of
yellow or orange. Maybe you saw the altivagans form of "Slate-colored" Fox
Sparrow which mixes features typical of "Slate-colored" with features of
the "Eastern" Fox Sparrow. I am really unclear as to whae an altivagans Fox
Sparrow actually looks like, so I can't help out with that. Do look at
Rising and Beadle's Sparrows of NA and Canada guide for more information.
Cheers.
Al
Alvaro Jaramillo
Half Moon Bay,
California
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From email@hidden Tue Dec 16 15:18:21 1997
Subject: Re: Possible Kamchatka Gull?
Alvaro Jaramillo wrote:
>
> I recall that Steve Rottenborn
> took photos of a similar looking bird at the Palo Alto Duck Pond last year,
> perhaps this is the same bird. He was able to get some good photos and I
> think that they suggest that his bird was not a Kamchatka Gull (is that
> right Steve?). Perhaps I am jumping the gun calling this bird a possible
> Kamchatka, but hey I have never seen anything quite like this. Ring-billed
> x Mew Gull?? Let's not go there yet, yuk.
This bird sounds identical to the one I photographed at that location last
winter (it spent the entire winter there), and it may be the same bird.
I initially thought last year's bird might be a Kamchatka Gull for the same
reasons Al noted in his message, and until I got my photos back, I also
thought that the amount of black in the primaries was too great for
brachyrhynchus. The key difference (in terms of primary pattern) between
kamtschatschensis and brachyrhynchus is that the white tongue between the
black primary tip and gray primary base (present on both species on p5-7)
is also present on p8 on brachyrhynchus, whereas on kamtschatschensis
p8 is extensively black, having much more black on the distal portion of
the feather than brachyrhynchus and lacking the white tongue.
The bird I photographed last year had perhaps a bit more black at the tip
of p8 than many brachyrhynchus do, but this black was not as extensive
as on kamtschatschensis, and p8 clearly had a white tongue between
the black at the tip and gray at the base. However, the photos also show
why the bird appeared to have more black on the outer primaries than a
typical brachyrhynchus. The white mirror on p9 was quite small, much
smaller than on most brachyrhynchus, so that there was more black proximal
to this white mirror than is typical. This gave the overall effect of
extensive black in the p8-9 area.
Having said this, it is possible that Al's bird really is a Kamchatka Gull,
so I'd urge other birders to look for it (I know I will).
Steve Rottenborn
Santa Clara, CA
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From email@hidden Tue Dec 16 18:21:14 1997
Subject: Possible Kamchatka Gull?
Birders:
Today while looking for the Laughing Gull at the Palo Alto Baylands Duck
Pond in Santa Clara County, CA I saw a bird which could be an adult
Kamchatka (Larus canus kamtschatschensis) "Mew" Gull (I never did find the
Laughing Gull). I have no experience with Kamchatka Gull so if anyone has
any comments on the ID criteria, do let me know. I don't have a copy of the
Hong Kong Bird Report article on the group.
Species present for comparison: Ring-billed Gull, California Gull, Western
Gull, Glaucous-winged Gull, Glaucous-winged x Western Gull hybrids.
Age: Adult Winter = Definitive Basic plumage.
Size/Structure: At a distance it looked quite similar to a Ring-billed
Gull, looking more "Mew" gull like up close. In fact, on a first scan from
the other side of the pond I overlooked this bird as a Ring-billed Gull. It
was slightly smaller than most of the Ring-billed Gulls in the flock, but
equal in size to some of the Ring-billed Gulls present. Its bill was long
for a brachyrhynchos Mew Gull, looking the same length as many of the bills
of nearby Ring-billed Gulls (direct comparison). The main difference was
that the bill of the possible Kamchatka Gull was thinner, not as deep as
that of a Ring-billed Gull. In many ways the structure was intermediate
between a Ring-billed Gull (RBGU) and a brachyrhynchus Mew Gull, having a
flatter crown than Mew, but rounder head than RBGU. It also looked to have
legs almost as long as those of RBGU, appearing to have a longer tibia than
a typical brachyrynchus Mew Gull. The gull was long winged, the tip of P6
lined up with the end of the tail and 6 primaries were visible beyond the
tertials (P5 partially hidden by the tertials and P10 fully hidden by P9).
The wing extension past the tail looked to be approximately 6-8 cm.
Soft Parts: The bill was greenish-yellow with an obvious blackish ring and
a brighter yellow tip beyond the ring. The ring on the bill was paler and
narrower that that of a Ring-billed Gull but darker than "dusky", closer to
near-black or "blackish" and noticeable from quite a distance. The section
of the ring on the upper mandible was slightly narrower than the section on
the lower mandible. The legs were greenish-yellow. The eye was pale,
appearing greyish-yellow, but paler in full sunlight. Nevertheless it never
looked clear yellow as in a Ring-billed Gull. The orbital ring was dark
red, darker red than that of a Ring-billed Gull's orbital ring and was only
visible when I was very close to the bird.
Body: The mantle was grey, noticeably darker than that of a Ring-billed
Gull and possibly comparable to that of a brachyrhynchus MEGU, of which
none were present for a direct comparison. There was an obvious white
tertial crescent, wider than that of nearby RBGU. The scapular crescent was
not obvious. The underparts and tail were white. The head and neck were
white with a great deal of dusky markings. These were distributed much like
on a brachyrhynchus MEGU, being heavy on the nape, neck sides, breast sides
and immediately before the eye. The dusky markings tended to be blurry,
rather than crisp in quality and on the center of the breast they were bars
rather than streaks. The streaking on the crown and auriculars was much
more crisp than that of the rest of the head and neck/breast, and not as
dense as in those areas.
Primaries: A total of 6 primaries had black. The outer two (P10 and P9)
showed two large white mirrors. At least P5 and P6 had white 'tongues'
separating the black primary tips from the grey of the primary bases. I
could not see, one way or another, if these 'tongues' extended further out
towards the wing tips than P6. When it flew it appeared to have a
substantial amount of black on the wingtips, and it appeared that the
mirrors did not line up with the white line produced by the white 'tongues'
on the primaries. However, the two times it flew it went directly away from
me, not allowing for a detailed look at the primary pattern. Overall the
wing pattern looks good for Kamchatka based on Tove's BIRDING article, but
that is overall, not in detail. The details are not available since I
couldn't see them and until they can be confirmed to be good for Kamchatka
(i.e. lots of black on P8), then it may be best to keep the ID of this bird
as very tentative. As well, I noticed that on the underside of P10 there
was at least 1cm of black extending beyond the white mirror, that's between
the white mirror and the tip of the primary. I estimated that the mirror
itself (on P10) was twice as long as the length of this black tip, so
perhaps 2 cm., give or take. The mirror on P9 was distinctly smaller than
the one on P10, and from above the mirror on P9 showed a black central
shaft streak. The mirrors looked slightly smaller than those of a typical
brachyrhynchus MEGU, but without direct comparison. These features were
observed as the bird preened, unfortunately it did not open the wing fully
in order to get a good look at P8 etc. The underwing was not observed.
Why is this bird not a brachyrhynchus MEGU?
Perhaps it is, but if so then its a mighty weird one.
- has a bold blackish ring on the bill.
- has pale eyes, greyish-yellow.
- the bill looks too long.
- the bird looks too big and long-legged.
- The head is blockier than I am used to, but certainly within what is
possible for MEGU.
- the wingtips appear to have too much black, but see above, details are
not certain.
After the observation I went out around my place (Half Moon Bay, San Mateo
Co, CA) to find some typical brachyrhynchus MEGU to study.
Overall, their structure appeared much more petite than the possible
Kamchatka, with a proportionately tiny bill. Of course none had a bold ring
on the bill or pale eyes. I noticed that the tibia of brachyrhynchus
appeared shorter than those of the possible Kamchatka, which did not appear
to be that much shorter-legged than a Ring-billed Gull. Finally, on all of
the brachyrhynchos MEGU observed, the underside of the P10 showed the black
tip distal to the mirror to be small, roughly only 1/3 the length of the
mirror. I don't know if this is of any significance. On the wing, the
brachyrhynchos MEGU appeared to have much more white than the possible
Kamchatka, with the white line of 'tongues' lining up with the two white
mirrors.
I did not have a camera with me as mine is out of commission, but if any
local birder/photographers has a minute please give this bird a try and do
get some photos. Perhaps a good photo will be the only way to figure out
what this bird was. I made a drawing as I looked at the bird and took
notes, but that is not the same as a photo. I recall that Steve Rottenborn
took photos of a similar looking bird at the Palo Alto Duck Pond last year,
perhaps this is the same bird. He was able to get some good photos and I
think that they suggest that his bird was not a Kamchatka Gull (is that
right Steve?). Perhaps I am jumping the gun calling this bird a possible
Kamchatka, but hey I have never seen anything quite like this. Ring-billed
x Mew Gull?? Let's not go there yet, yuk.
Thanks in advance for any help/comments/suggestions.
Cheers.
Alvaro Jaramillo
Half Moon Bay,
California
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From email@hidden Wed Dec 17 08:01:40 1997
Subject: RNDU
All:
This morning, 12/17/97, there was a male RING-NECKED DUCK in with
some female scaup on Adobe Creek.
Bill
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Subject: Re: Possible Kamchatka Gull?
Tom Ryan and I had this bird briefly on Saturday 13 Dec. I thought it a
curious looking Mew, but not being familiar with Kamchatka Gulls I left it
go at that. There ALWAYS seems to be SO more to learn... isn't it grand?
Cheers,
-Gj
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From email@hidden Wed Dec 17 13:03:12 1997
Subject: BYWA,PAWA
All,
Well, with Xmas counts coming up (count week for San Jose starts
tomorrow) I decided to check some spots that were good last year.
At Bowers Park in Santa Clara I had 4 species of warbler, including
a male BLACK-THROATED GRAY WARBLER, 2-3 TOWNSEND'S WARBLERS, and
a single ORANGE-CROWNED WARBLER. These birds were all at the
southern corner of the park along the creek. Also here were 13
pairs of MALLARDS and a foraging adult SHARP-SHINNED HAWK.
Stopping at Fair Oaks Park in Sunnyvale I immediately found the
PALM WARBLER (back for its third winter!) foraging on the ground
along the open portion of creek behind the park.
Now maybe I should find a Yellowthroat for a 6 warbler day in
December!
Mike Rogers
12/17/97
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Subject: Re: BYWA,PAWA
>Stopping at Fair Oaks Park in Sunnyvale I immediately found the
>PALM WARBLER (back for its third winter!) foraging on the ground
>along the open portion of creek behind the park.
Where is Fair Oaks park exactly??
>
>Now maybe I should find a Yellowthroat for a 6 warbler day in
>December!
>
>Mike Rogers
>12/17/97
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From email@hidden Wed Dec 17 15:34:30 1997
Subject: Re: Fair Oaks Park
Thanks for the info.
At 03:24 PM 12/17/97 -0800, Christopher Salander wrote:
>
> As Fair Oaks goes south from 101, it splits into
>two streets, Fair Oaks (west) and Wolfe (east). Right
>at the split, on the east side of the Fair Oaks - Wolfe Ave.,
>is Fair Oaks Park. It is shaped like a quarter circle,
>with the creek on the eastern, or straight, edge.
>This is north of El Camino Real.
>
> - Chris Salander
>
>
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From email@hidden Wed Dec 17 15:44:07 1997
Subject: Fair Oaks Park
Hi Everyone--
To reach Fair Oaks Park, take the Fair Oaks Avenue exit south from
highway 101 in Sunnyvale. When Fair Oaks Avenue and Wolfe Road split
(about 1 mile), follow Wolfe Road and turn left immediately into the
park (if you should end up on Fair Oaks, turn left on Maude Avenue and
follow it to the end in the park). The Palm Warbler likes the area
around the drainage culvert at the east end of the park, and it
sometimes feeds in adjacent eucalyptus trees.
Mark Miller
PS: Thanks Mike!
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From email@hidden Thu Dec 18 13:00:30 1997
Subject: Lockheed Burowing Owl
All:
One of the two Burrowing Owls I reported at Lockeheed some time ago has
returned to the same hole inside the fence near the Stop sign near 1st
Avenue and J Street.
Also, the area inside Lockheed Property bordering on Moffet Field is
being filled in with mud and cattails from another area. I just don't
know what is going on.
Mike Feighner
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From email@hidden Thu Dec 18 13:11:30 1997
Subject: Fair Oaks Park Palm Warbler
All,
Today Frank Vanslager and I saw the Palm Warbler on the east side of Fair Oaks
Park near (evergreens, bushes) and in the cement culvert. Is this bird
rushing the seasons by acting very territorial (toward YRWA) and by having a
chestnut fore-crown? We also saw two ad Golden Eagles (together) over the
southern edge of Hidden Villa Ranch.
Take care,
Bob Reiling, 12:57 PM, 12/18/97
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From email@hidden Thu Dec 18 16:56:17 1997
Subject: Bay Calendar and New URLs
Larry Tunstall has updated the Bay Area Calendar for December 20-January =
2 for=0ASBBU.=0A=0AThanks to Mike Feighner, I have added some new Birding=
Web Sites on SBBU. He=0Ahas a nice picture (Belcher=92s (Band-tailed) G=
ull) on the site entitled "Joe=0AMorlan" .=0A=0ABest Wishes For the Holid=
ay Season.=0A=0AKendric=0ASouth Bay Birders Unlimited (SBBU)=0Ahttp://www=
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From email@hidden Fri Dec 19 13:17:19 1997
Subject: Rough-legged Hawk
All:
On Wednesday (17 Dec.), I checked Hidden Lake Park in Milpitas for
unusual gulls. I was pleasantly surprised to find decent numbers
of THAYER'S GULLS of all ages here: 2 adults (1 very pale-eyed but
not quite as pale as that of a Herring Gull), 1 third-winter, 7
second-winter, and 6 first-winter; very obliging, lots of photo
opportunities here.
On Thursday (18 Dec.), Scott Terrill and I checked the Lick Mill
open space area along the lower Guadalupe River. This area had
surprisingly few birds, with 12 DARK-EYED JUNCOS (a rather high
count on the valley floor near the bay; seen only by Scott) being
the only highlight. A check of Agnews West Campus nearby produced
a flock of 10 more juncos and tons of sparrows but nothing unusual.
Today (19 Dec.), I was heading out of the office to conduct a Burrowing
Owl survey when, driving through the intersection of State and Spreckles
in Alviso, I spotted a light-morph ROUGH-LEGGED HAWK hover-foraging
over New Chicago Marsh. From 11:45 to 12:15, I watched this bird
foraging over the marsh and eventually perched on a post NE of the
Alviso marina (as seen from Scott's office!). The bird then slowly
moved off to the NE and I was not able to refind it, although it
may hang around. After work, I went to Fair Oaks Park, where John
and Maria Meyer showed me the PALM WARBLER and let me get excellent
looks at this very cooperative bird through their scope. This bird
is unusual in that most of its crown is chestnut (somewhat duller than
on an alternate-plumaged bird) and it has a small patch of bright yellow
feathers on the center of the breast (very bright but visible only with
close views). These characters are typically not present on "Western"
Palm Warblers in winter (although the bird is obviously not a "Yellow"
Palm Warbler). I'd be interested to hear from birders who have seen
this bird in the past two winters whether it showed chestnut on the crown
last winter or the year before.
Good luck on the CBC's -- I'm off to Virginia until the 27th.
Steve Rottenborn
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From email@hidden Fri Dec 19 13:18:52 1997
Subject: Santa Cruz and Monterey birds
We just spent 4 days at Moss Landing (Monterey Dunes).
Monday - walked to north side of Salinas Riv at sunset (river has broken
through) - very close-up views of 6 RED PHALAROPES.
Tues - to Neary's Lagoon, Santa Cruz, where I came upon Frank Vanslager &
Bob Reiling, Todd Newberry & Rick Fournier. We hung around all morning, at
end of which Rick spotted the DUSKY-CAPPED FLYCATCHER down the slope
visible through the gap in the German ivy on the chain link fence. Good
views were had by all. No Lucy's Warbler.
Weds - early am into south side of Elkhorn Slough via the little dirt road
off Hwy 1 nearly opposite Struve Rd - flock of 19 SNOW GEESE near the
parking lot, also there when I checked again Thurs am - plus a single
RING-NECKED DUCK on Packard's duck pond. Note, hunters have been barred
from using this access - hooray! However the road in is so muddy my 4WD
kicked in, also true at Moonglow Dairy.
Later am, to Jack's Peak. No luck on Williamson's Sapsucker, but this
wonderful spot still very rewarding. East parking lot, single HERMIT
WARBLER in with the of Townsend's - also 2 BROWN CREEPERS with the usual
PYGMY NUTCHATCHES - also a RED-BREASTED SAPSUCKER, a HAIRY WOODPECKER.
West Parking lot - usual wonderful views of bathing birds at midday near
the water tank - nothing unusual, but varied and fun to watch. (I took my
semi-birding spouse for a picnic there - highly recommended.)
Thurs - To fresh water pond south of Salinas River mouth - (walk in from
end of Del Monte Ave). 1 male EURASIAN WIGEON in with many AMWIs; 1
SHORT-EARED OWL duelling with 2 Harriers over the marsh; 1 partly albino
AMERICAN COOT (looks like someone dumped a cup of white paint over its
head and back), 8 BRANT.
Steve Rovell - the call-in feature on the Monterey RBA update number
doesn't seem to be working right - I tried to call in on Weds but
couldn't.
-- Tom Grey Stanford CA email@hidden
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From email@hidden Fri Dec 19 13:20:14 1997
Subject: Tanagers
This morning there were still two Western Tanagers -- one male, one female-
type -- in the flowering eucalyptus trees on the northwest corner of Palo Alto
Ave. and Middlefield Road. Although the following is likely hallucinatory, I
will nonetheless mention it to stimulate further observation: on just one of
my views of a Tanager in these trees, the bird appeared to be a bit more
orangy below (could have been due to lighting) and I could not detect wing-
bars (could have been due to an odd angle). The only Tanager calls I heard
were Western, and then only for two brief periods in over an hour. I saw each
of the Western's on 3 to 4 occasions during this time.
Note that we are in count period for the Palo Alto CBC. Also today in
the circle, in San Mateo County, there was a male Blue-Winged Teal with
three Cinnamon's in the slough near the entrance to Bayfront Park (Menlo
Park).
Al Eisner
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From email@hidden Fri Dec 19 13:24:06 1997
Subject: Glaucous Gull in Milpitas
Today, Mike Rogers, Al Jaramillo, and I spent about three hours birding the
dump at Newby Island. Generally we estimated about 12,000 gulls there, with
another 4,000+ just over the border in ALameda. The only notable bird was an
adult Glaucous Gull.
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From email@hidden Fri Dec 19 13:42:30 1997
Subject: Snowy Plovers
All:
Just came back from the viewing platform a the NW corner of the
Calabasas Ponds from where I viewed two Snowy Plovers. This is the same
place where I discovered the Common Murre in late August, and the light
was much better this time for viewing. I believe this is Pond A-8.
Someone, please correct this if this is wrong.
Mike Feighner, email@hidden
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From email@hidden Mon Dec 22 06:19:16 1997
Subject: Christmas Bird Count
All:
On Saturday, December 20th, I birded around the EEC hoping to find Steve
Rottenborn's Rough-legged Hawk, a bird that has thus far escaped me in
Santa Clara County...no luck again. I did find an adult Golden Eagle
and a Peregrine Falcon along the access road, and a Merlin flew over the
New Chicago Marsh. There only about two Fox Sparrows (no Red) and no
sign of the Yellow Warbler.
Yesterday, I counted along the east side of Calaveras Reservoir. There
was no rain, but the winds were high. There were very few birds...and
few of each. It seems the really good birds were in other count areas.
The results were about the same as last year. I birded parts of two
sections alone. You could count the birds on your fingers. There was
one adult Bald Eagle that flew by on my left. If I hadn't looked at
that moment, I would have missed it.
In the future more needs to be done to attract good birders to the
Christmas Bird Count. This year the Calaveras Section had on the
average 1.6 (_one_point_six) birders per section. The one year I led
the count there, we had 4 birders in each section.
Mike Feighner, Livermore, CA, email@hidden
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From email@hidden Mon Dec 22 12:38:57 1997
Subject: Rough-legged Hawk
All,
On yesterday's San Jose CBC, I worked with Harriet Gerson, covering the
Berryessa Hills section. This area is bounded by Calaveras Rd, the south side
of Ed Levin Park, and Felter Rd. on the north; Sierra Rd. on the southeast;
and Piedmont Rd. on the southwest. It's a triangular area with the junction of
Felter and Sierra Rds. on the east. I covered the perimeter of this area.
The best sighting on this route was of a ROUGH-LEGGED HAWK at the Sierra Rd.
summit just before noon. The white area in the upper primaries indicated that
this was an immature bird. First views of the bird was a fleeting look as it
cruised low and out of sight after showing white flecking in the face and the
upperwing patch. About 15-20 minutes later it reappeared soaring in high
circles until it cruised out of sight to the north along the ridge. During
this second sighting, the white base of the tail and broad dark subterminal
band was seen through a scope. John Meyer was able to see the thin white
terminal tail band. I never got a good view of the underside of the bird. Also
enjoying the sighting was Maria Meyer, Mich Ninokata and Caroline Nabeta.
Also seen in this location was a PRAIRIE FALCON in the Alum Rock section to
the south.
Another PRAIRIE FALCON was seen over Ed Levin Park at about 1:30p, flying
west. It was seen again by Harriet Gerson, Gail Cheeseman, and Shirley Gordon
covering the western ridgetop reaches of the Park, and again by our group, now
including Kathleen Lee, on the Piedmont Rd. side of the foothills. We also had
sightings of 2-3 adult GOLDEN EAGLES over the Park. The pond in the south
section of the park had a pair of RING-NECKED DUCKS.
For those interested in other birds seen at the Sierra Rd. summit, there were
many LARK SPARROWS, HORNED LARKS and WESTERN MEADOWLARKS present along with a
few SAVANNAH SPARROWS. We looked for but did not find any American Pipit,
longspurs or Burrowing Owl. Winds were very strong and steady in this area and
it was brutally cold!
We spent a lot of time looking for the Yellow-bellied Sapsucker at Ed Levin
Park but were unsuccessful. If you find this bird either today or tomorrow, or
if you saw it on Friday or Saturday, 12/19-20, let me know!
Les
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From email@hidden Mon Dec 22 13:35:34 1997
Subject: Harlan's Hawk
All:
On the San Jose CBC, I was covering the Alviso section. On the way to
the dinner, I stopped at Guadaloupe Creek at Trimble road. On my way
out at 5:00 pm, I was crossing Trimble when a hawk flushed from the
willow trees. In the twilight I could make out that the body was all
chocolate brown, with the tail being white with a dark band. It had
flashes of white in the underwing as it was flapping but I could not
ascertain the exact pattern. This tail pattern reminded me of the
HARLAN'S HAWK that wintered here last year.
I rechecked the area over lunch today (12/22) and refound the bird
perched in a willow on the west bank. It was in the third tree back
looking south from the gate at a distance of about 50 yards. The bird
did not move in the fifteen minutes I watched it (12:45 to 1:00 pm), but
the undertail pattern I could see in the scope was pale with a darker
area near the tip.
Steve Miller
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From email@hidden Mon Dec 22 13:53:52 1997
Subject: Monterey County birds
Hi Birders -
Today I birded a few places here close to home in Monterey County. I
started off at the freshwater pond on the south side of the Salinas River
Wildlife Area because a colleague of mine said he saw a LEAST GREBE there
yesterday. He described it to me down to the golden-yellow color of the
iris and thin bill. It sounded like a LEAST GREBE so I went to look. I
didn't see one, and I kind of expected that. However, I did see a nice
assortment of ducks and geese, including 7 BRANT, lots of RUDDY DUCKS and
AMERICAN WIGEON, several MALLARDS, BUFFLEHEAD, NORTHERN PINTAIL, NORTHERN
SHOVELER, GADWALL and CANVASBACK, one COMMON GOLDENEYE, one SCAUP sp.,
one SURF SCOTER and the partially albinistic AMERICAN COOT. The only
grebes there were about 3 EARED GREBES and several WESTERN GREBES. I did
not see a EURASIAN WIGEON. If anyone birds this area, check all the
grebes! Who knows? Maybe there WAS a LEAST GREBE.
As I was leaving, I looked up just in time to see three TUNDRA SWANS fly
by as if leaving the area (toward Salinas [sewage ponds?]), but they
eventually circled and flew back. They seemed to have come from the
north side of the river mouth which I had not been birding. I believe
that is where they returned to. On my drive home, I saw a GOLDEN EAGLE
sitting on a fence post along Del Monte Avenue between Highway 1 and the
City of Marina.
Upon arriving home, I called the hotline (375-2577) once more to see if
it had been updated, and it was. A TUNDRA SWAN (most probably the one
seen on the Big Sur CBC yesterday) was in the lagoon at the mouth of the
Big Sur River. I decided to go chase it and the LEWIS' WOODPECKER that
was seen on the CBC as well. Once I got down to Big Sur, I turned up the
Old Coast Road (the dirt road opposite the entrance to Andrew Molera
State Park) and drove up until I could see the entire Big Sur River Mouth
lagoon. Scoping the lagoon, the TUNDRA SWAN was easily visible.
I then drove down to the Big Sur Ornithology Lab (BSOL), and started my
short hike up toward East Molera Ridge to look for the LEWIS' WOODPECKER.
There is a trail that leads east from the BSOL area and goes under
Highway 1. It then enters an oak forest and climbs steeply for a while.
Once out of the oak forest, there is a double power pole that the LEWIS'
WOODPECKER was seen on. The bird was there when I got there. The entire
hike took me about 15 minutes round trip.
One last note. Yesterday after the Big Sur CBC, I had a little extra
time after finishing my area, so I drove up to Pacific Grove and birded
Short Street. The eucalyptus there has been cut way back and is barely
flowering. However, at the intersection of Short and Chestnut Streets
with a flock of other Zonotrichias I saw 2 "white-striped" WHITE-THROATED
SPARROWS. They popped up with the others in the backyard of the yellow
house with the fruit trees (pears or apples) when I pished.
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From email@hidden Mon Dec 22 23:36:26 1997
Subject: Parrots
All--
This afternoon a little after 3:00 I was driving south on Miramonte Avenue
in Mountain View. I was startled to see parrots in a tree in front of the
new office building on the east side of the street just north of its
intersection with Castro Street. I screeched to a stop, backed up and
grabbed my binoculars. There were 15 large _Aratingas_ stripping the
(unknown) tree of what appeared to be a small dark fruit. The birds were
gorgeous in the afternoon sunlight and very active. Twice they all flew,
calling raucously, only to return to the tree for more fruit. The third
time they flew, they did not return, probably because there was hardly any
fruit left. They all appeared to be the same size and shape when flying.
Studied individually, they showed widely varying amounts of red on the
forehead, crown, face and sides of neck. Some showed no red on the forehead
but still had flecks of red on the sides of the neck. I assume that most,
or perhaps all, of these were Mitred Parakeets.
--Peter
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From email@hidden Tue Dec 23 08:09:46 1997
Subject: Alameda CBC - Coyote Hills
Happy Holidays everyone,
While you're at Hayward picking up the Tropical Kingbird, I would recommend
dropping by Coyote Hills. On our CBC route on Sunday (12/21/97) covered
southern Coyote Hills, Ideal Marsh to the north side of the refuge HQ, the
group as a whole saw 107 species (at last count) we picked up a few notable
ones. At Ideal marsh we observed a male MERLIN and a pair of PEREGRINE
FALCONS hunting. On the way back to Coyote Hills, on one of the easternmost
dredge spoil islands adjacent to the road we observed a lone GREATER WHITE
FRONTED GOOSE in amongst a group of CANADA GEESE. In the flooded fields just
past the Coyote Hills fee both were 4 COMMON SNIPE feeding right at the edge
of the road. Just outside and south of the road to Coyote Hills (I forget the
name) on Paseo Padre there is a trailer with the horses & cows and several
hundred starlings & blackbirds, in amonst the others was at least one TRI-
COLORED BLACKBIRD. However, the bird of the day was spotted by Joan Mancini,
an adult ROUGH LEGGED HAWK, seen right over the outer parking lot and the
rocky outcropping, this bird moved east over the marsh toward Paseo Padre.
Good birding & Happy Holidays,
Tom Ryan
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From email@hidden Tue Dec 23 13:00:20 1997
Subject: birds
On Saturday, 20 Dec 97, I joined Mike Rogers for a bike ride out the =
Alviso Slough Trail. The tide was already on the ebb, and we rode =
quickly and directly out to A9, hoping to catch the shorebirds while =
they were still roosting up. Unfortunately, A9 had much more water in =
it than when I was previously out there and the shorebird concentrations =
weren't there. We did have a single SANDERLING fly in and land =
within 20 yards of us, but nothing else unusual could be found. =
After returning, we both then went to New Chicago Marsh/Arzino =
Ranch to look for Rough-legged Hawk, which eluded us. We did have =
an adult PEREGRINE FALCON at the entrance to the EEC. Mike had =
to leave and I quickly checked the EEC, where an immature =
COOPER'S HAWK was keeping things quiet. I returned to the Alviso =
Marina to scope out a large flock if gulls that was gathered in the =
impoundment north of the marina. Here I found Nick Lethaby already =
checking them out. This flock consisted mainly of CALIFORNIA and =
HERRING GULLS, with a few THAYER'S thrown in. We both then =
went to the EEC to check on the unusual birds there. We saw the =
strange hummingbird with the elongated gorget corners. Although the =
gorget shape looked a lot like a Costa's, we both thought the color was =
typical of Anna's. The female type YELLOW WARBLER was also =
present. =
On Sunday, 21 Dec 97, I worked the Calaveras section for the San Jose =
CBC, with Allen and Eileen Royer and their daughter Joanna, and their =
friend Jim and his stepdaughter Beth. Our first stop was at the dam, =
which produced ROCK WREN and RUFOUS-CROWNED =
SPARROW. The best thing here, though, was the 6 grebe species, =
including a RED-NECKED GREBE. We had the usual species as we =
moved down the reservoir and then up Arroyo Hondo. In the arroyo we =
had a SPOTTED SANDPIPER, 8 WOOD DUCKS, and 2 adult =
GOLDEN EAGLES. On the way back I stopped at Ed Levin Park to =
look for the Yellow-bellied Sapsucker. However, I had no luck even =
though I spent an hour and a half, some of it with Mike Rogers. We =
ended up missing this bird for the count.
On Monday, 22 Dec 97, I did the Palo Alto CBC, working the area =
around the Dumbarton Bridge. At Dumbarton Point, on the east side of =
the bridge, I had 3 SANDERLINGS right at the foot of the fishing pier. =
The wind was blowing fiercely and this may have kept the bird numbers =
down. I didn't see a lot of ducks on the bay or the surrounding salt =
ponds, except for BUFFLEHEADS. Later, in the pond behind the =
Ravenswood power station, I came across a phalarope. I initially called =
it a Red-necked because it lacked any pale color in the bill, but, after =
talking with Mike Rogers and checking references, I'm convinced it =
was a RED PHALAROPE. Finishing up at Bayfront Park, I saw the 2 =
male BLUE-WINGED TEAL that Jack Cole had found there earlier. A =
BROWN PELICAN was flying out near the bay here. Afterwards, I =
stopped at the Palo Alto flood control basin to look for Swamp =
Sparrow, but an hour and a half of searching proved futile. =
Mike Mammoser
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From email@hidden Wed Dec 24 13:03:02 1997
DECEMBER 24 1997 SANTA CLARA COUNTY YEAR LIST UPDATE
Thanks to two new species from the San Jose and Palo Alto Christmas
Bird Counts we have reached an new all-time high for the number of
species recorded in Santa Clara County during a single calendar year!
And there are still 7 days to go.
Kevin McKereghan's Clay-colored Sparrow 150 yards north of the Emily
Renzel Wetlands pullout (not the FCB as he stated on the Bird Box) was
our 11th and latest county record. The next species was Steve's
Rough-legged Hawk, followed by another over the Sierra Rd Summit two
days later (another probable RLHA was seen over the outer Palo Alto
Flood Control Basin on 12/19, the same day Steve had his bird, by
Frank Vanslager). The five TUNDRA SWANS flying north west of the
Alviso Marina on the San Jose Count tied our previous high and the
BLACK SCOTER on the Palo Alto count gives us a record 304 species.
This is the 6th county record and farthest south in the bay that this
bird has been found (off the mouth of Guadalupe Slough north of Salt
Pond A3N).
Possible targets and areas to find them include:
Brandt's Cormorant - bayside areas
White-winged Scoter - Shoreline Lake, the bay off Palo Alto
jaegers - bayside areas
Little and Black-headed Gulls - wherever there are Bonaparte's Gulls
Red-naped Sapsucker - look for wells and check every sapsucker!
Mountain Bluebird - Sierra, Felter and Calaveras Rds, San Antonio Valley
Sage Thrasher - bayside areas
Black-and-white Warbler - riparian areas
Northern Waterthrush - Matadero, EEC Alviso, Guadalupe River
Chestnut-collared Longspur - Sierra Rd summit (but none last winter)
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:
301: 12/ 8/97 CLAY-COLORED SPARROW
302: 12/19/97 ROUGH-LEGGED HAWK
303: 12/21/97 TUNDRA SWAN
304: 12/22/97 BLACK SCOTER
Please send any additions, corrections, or comments to Mike
Rogers, email@hidden.
SANTA CLARA COUNTY YEAR LIST - 1997
RWR AME WGB MMR MJM KLP MLF SCR CKS COMP SOURCE
377 274 273 232 265 265 186 304
% OF COMPOSITE FOR 1997
% OF 377
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 203 219 258 253 218 251 195 296
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 10/22 10/22 10/22 11/ 9 10/22 10/22 RCC
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 11/ 9 PJM
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 9/ 5 9/ 5 9/ 5 9/ 5 9/ 4 AJa
Fulvous Whistling-Duck
Tundra Swan 12/21 DM,GH,TGr
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 10/12 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 12/22 12/22 MMR,AK
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 9/24 1/ 3 1/ 1 1/ 3 11/ 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 11/ 3 1/ 3 MJM
Rough-legged Hawk 12/19 12/19 SCR
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 10/ 4 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 9/ 5 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 11/29 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 10/12 RLi
Black-bellied Plover 1/14 1/19 1/ 2 1/19 1/ 1 10/13 1/ 1 SCR
Pacific Golden-Plover 7/30 8/ 4 7/27 DNo,JAb
American Golden-Plover 7/27 PJM
Golden-Plover sp 7/24
Snowy Plover 5/12 4/ 6 12/19 8/13 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 9/14 PJM
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 10/30 11/ 1 7/24 7/21 4/17 4/17 SCR
Black Turnstone 10/30 8/17 10/27 8/17 MJM
Red Knot 9/24 4/26 4/30 10/12 4/26 MJM
Sanderling 1/14 8/17 1/ 7 1/17 1/ 1 1/ 1 SCR
Semipalmated Sandpiper 5/12 7/ 6 8/13 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
White-rumped Sandpiper 9/ 4 9/ 4 9/ 4 9/ 4 9/ 4 9/ 3 NLe
Baird's Sandpiper 8/12 8/16 8/13 8/13 8/12 4/13 AJa
Pectoral Sandpiper 9/ 2 8/29 9/ 2 8/31 9/ 2 7/30 AJa
Sharp-tailed Sandpiper 10/ 4 10/ 4 10/ 5 10/ 4 10/ 4 10/ 3 NLe
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 8/27 8/24 8/22 8/24 8/28 8/20 NLe
Buff-breasted Sandpiper 9/ 2 9/ 6 9/ 1 9/ 1 AJa
Ruff 9/ 4 10/ 4 10/ 5 9/ 4 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 11/ 2 1/ 1 1/ 1 SCR
Wilson's Phalarope 6/25 6/15 7/29 6/17 5/10 9/ 4 4/22 AJa
Red-necked Phalarope 4/ 1 7/ 4 7/29 7/28 4/20 9/ 4 4/ 1 MMR
Red Phalarope 10/20 RCo,RLe
Pomarine Jaeger
Parasitic Jaeger
Long-tailed Jaeger
Laughing Gull 11/30 11/30 11/30 11/30 11/29 TGr
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 10/17 10/17 SCR
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 10/11 10/26 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 10/ 8 10/ 7 10/ 8 10/ 8 10/ 7 10/10 10/ 7 SCR
Caspian Tern 3/ 6 4/26 8/30 4/ 5 3/ 6 7/13 3/ 6 SCR,MMR
Elegant Tern 10/18 10/17 10/ 2 PJM
Common Tern 10/26 10/17 10/17 SCR
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 10/ 8 NLe,RWR
Black Skimmer 1/ 1 1/ 5 1/ 9 1/ 3 1/ 1 1/ 3 1/ 1 SCR,MMR
Common Murre 8/29 8/29 8/29 8/29 MLF
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 10/12 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 10/12 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 9/19 9/19 SCR,SBT
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 8/11 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 8/30 9/ 1 9/ 1 8/31 5/27 5/18 LCh
Least Flycatcher 9/10 CCRS
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 10/10 10/10 10/ 5 DSt
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 9/29 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 10/12 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 11/ 4 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 5/14 5/13 5/13 5/13 SCR
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 9/13 1/ 8 MMR
Chestnut-sided Warbler
Magnolia Warbler 10/26 10/25 10/26 10/25 10/25 MJM,SCR
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 9/28 AJa
Blackburnian Warbler
Prairie Warbler 11/22 11/21 11/23 11/21 11/21 SCR
Palm Warbler 1/ 5 1/11 1/ 4 1/ 3 12/19 1/ 3 1/ 3 MLF,CKS
Blackpoll Warbler
Black-and-White Warbler
American Redstart 8/ 8 8/16 8/11 8/12 8/ 7 8/ 7 SCR
Prothonotary Warbler
Worm-eating Warbler
Ovenbird 9/23 CCRS
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 8/11 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 9/ 3 4/20 AV
Rose-breasted Grosbeak
Black-headed Grosbeak 4/ 3 4/ 5 4/17 3/21 4/ 3 9/ 5 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 10/ 7 10/ 7 10/ 5 BHa
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 12/ 8 KMc
Brewer's Sparrow 9/28 10/12 9/28 MMR
Black-chinned Sparrow 5/ 6 5/10 5/10 5/17 5/ 6 MMR
Vesper Sparrow 10/ 5 CCRS,NLe
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 11/14 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 12/ 7 11/27 12/ 8 12/15 11/27 MJM
White-throated Sparrow 10/12 11/ 7 4/17 11/11 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 11/ 2 NLe
Chestnut-collared Longspur
Bobolink 9/ 1 9/ 1 MJM
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 10/21 10/17 10/21 10/21 10/18 10/17 MJM
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.
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From email@hidden Wed Dec 24 15:14:39 1997
Subject: San Jose and Palo Alto CBC birds
On Sunday, Garth Harwood and I backed up Dave McIntyre covering the Gold
Street part of Alviso, and the southern part of the Sunnyvale bayfront. On
the (closed) Cargill pond that is just over the hill from Gold street, we
had 3 SNOWY PLOVERS (perhaps those seen earlier by Mike Feighner from
Calabazas Ponds), 3 SANDERLINGS, a flyover by 5 TUNDRA SWANS, and a
flyover by a probable GLAUCOUS GULL (I counted it for my own day list on
the basis of the translucent primaries). On the Sunnyvale salt pond that
is right behind the sewage treatment plant, we had a BROWN PELICAN and a
EURASIAN WIGEON.
On Monday, I backed up Al Eisner covering Los Trancos Rd, the Palo Alto
Golf Club, Felt Lake, and Arastradero Preserve, on the Palo Alto count. We
had PINE SISKINS at the Golf Club; and at Felt Lake 4 HOODED MERGANSERS, a
MERLIN, a GREATER WHITE-FRONTED GOOSE, and a RED-NECKED GREBE. Al heard a
WESTERN SCREECH OWL at Los Trancos Rd before dawn.
But I thought our most noteworthy achievement was managing not to see a
single White-crowned Sparrow while birding all day in landbird habitat.
-- Tom Grey Stanford CA email@hidden
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From email@hidden Thu Dec 25 13:21:00 1997
Subject: Townsend's Warbler
While birding in Stevens Creek Park on Christmas afternoon, I found one
Townsend's Warbler. The bird was in a deciduous tree along the creek
side of the Chestnut Picnic Area. I had great views for a couple of
minutes before the bird dropped into the undergrowth. I was unable to
find it again.
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From email@hidden Thu Dec 25 21:28:54 1997
Subject: Gull Count at Newby Island Landfill
On Dec 19, in support of the San Jose Christmas Bird Count, Mike Rogers, Al
Jaramillo, and myself visited the Newby Island Landfill, Santa Clara County,
to count the gull population there. We spent about 3 hours checking the
gulls and other birds on the dump. We estimated the total gull population to
be about 12,000 birds on or flying around the dump itself.
In addition, another 3,000+ could be seen on a nearby intertidal area in S.
Fremont. Still more gulls were in the distance towards Alviso. It seems
likely that the total gull population in the Alviso/Milpitas area is close
to 20,000 birds. It should of course be stressed that these estimates are
very rough. We made no effort to estimate species composition of the birds
off the dump and they are not included in any of our totals.
The most surprising feature was the relatively low numbers of California
Gulls. Experience at Alviso and CCRS had led me to believe that this would
be the commonest gull using the dump. However, in reality Herring Gulls were
the dominant species. Clearly many of the California Gulls roosting and
bathing in Alviso are feeding elsewhere.
Apart from the gulls, the only other species of note was a flock of
Tricolored Blackbirds.
The totals for each gull species were estimated as follows:
Herring Gull - 9,000
Thayer's Gull - 300
Glaucous-winged Gull - 300
Western Gull - 200 (including one adult wymani)
California Gull - 2,000
Glaucous Gull - 1 adult
Ring-billed Gull - 3
This is a huge concentration of Herring Gulls. To my knowledge it may be the
largest on the west coast. Certainly, it is much larger than any others in
N. California, OR, or WA. Furthermore, there were undoubtedly a few thousand
more in the general area.
Other Species:
Tri-colored Blackbird - 300
Bi-colored Blackbird - 50
Starling - 300
Raven - 25
Red-tailed Hawk - 10
Turkey Vulture - 5
Nick Lethaby
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From email@hidden Fri Dec 26 08:51:58 1997
Subject: pygmy owl
The NORTHERN PYGMY OWL seen Sunday on the CBC at Alum Rock Park is still
there December 26. Take the road into Alum Rock Park to the very end and
park in parking lot. Cross the bridge towards YSI. There are two paths to
your right. The path closest to the creek has whitewash (owl droppings!)
about 70 feet from the bridge. Look for owl there. On Sunday we saw it
in a bare tree at 7:15 a.m. and could view it from 360 degrees as it
watched us look at it. Very cooperative. Today there were a dozen jays
mobbing it.
Gloria LeBlanc
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From email@hidden Sat Dec 27 20:24:24 1997
Subject: S.C.Co.Year List Update
Mike Rogers has updated the 1997 SANTA CLARA COUNTY YEAR LIST as of December 1.
301: 12/ 8/97 CLAY-COLORED SPARROW
302: 12/19/97 ROUGH-LEGGED HAWK
303: 12/21/97 TUNDRA SWAN
304: 12/22/97 BLACK SCOTER
Also, more Merlin sightings (Merlie).
Kendric
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From email@hidden Sun Dec 28 14:27:56 1997
Subject: weekend birds
Yesterday, saw a female/immature MERLIN near the Stanford Mausoleum.
Today, did a Last Chance checkup at spots where I might see birds for the
year county list, as follows: Ed Levin Park - no Yellow-bellied Sapsucker
(but 2 RING-NECKED DUCKS); Calaveras Reservoir - no Bald Eagle; Lake
Cunningham - no Lesser Black-backed Gull (but 2 REDHEADS); Shady Oaks Park
- yes! the EASTERN PHOEBE, right where last reported by John Meyer, near
the gray Volkswagen hood; Fair Oaks Park - no Palm Warbler; San
Francisquito creek at Middlefield - no Western Tanager.
One out of six, but hey, it was a beautiful morning, and a pleasure to be
out and around.
Year county: 211.
-- Tom Grey Stanford CA email@hidden
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From email@hidden Sun Dec 28 18:05:02 1997
Subject: Y-S Flicker
Today I saw a Yellow-shafted Flicker along the Guadalupe River south of
Montague (about half a mile south). Best other bird was an Orange-crowned
Warbler.
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From email@hidden Sun Dec 28 20:35:48 1997
Subject: sjmn
"sunday homes" section of sjmn today had nice article on "how to attract
birds to your back yard" with discussion of the bluebird box program.
picture shown was a BLUE JAY! gloria le blanc
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From email@hidden Mon Dec 29 09:40:47 1997
All,
On Friday 12/19/97, after enjoying the GLAUCOUS GULL at the Newby
Island Landfill (Count Week bird!), I stopped by the EEC in Alviso and
got nice looks at the YELLOW WARBLER (Count Week bird) and the hybrid
COSTA'S x ANNA'S HUMMINGBIRD (Count Week hybrid-photographed).
Early Saturday morning 12/20/97 I did some scouting of the Alviso Salt
Ponds with Mike Mammoser. We made it out to A9 and back on bikes in
just over two hours. As Mike has noted, shorebird habitat in A9 is
gone, so I realized I would need to get shorebirds for the San Jose
count (the next day) along Coyote Creek as the tide receded. Right at
the start we had a female SURF SCOTER (Count Week bird) in Salt Pond
A12 behind the Marina. Probably the same bird later flew into (and
out of again) Salt Pond A15. An immature PEREGRINE FALCON flew over
Salt Pond A12, 2 SEMIPALMATED PLOVERS were along A14, and a SANDERLING
foraged close at the northwest corner of A14 (and two more shorebirds
probably of this species flew over A10 and A11 later). As Mike has
noted, a quick check of Arzino Ranch produced an adult PEREGRINE
FALCON. The drive back home across Highway 237 added a MERLIN perched
on a light post near the Calabazas Ponds.
Late in the day I made a quick check of Shoreline Lake for windswept
vagrants and came up with 7 SURF SCOTERS (more than our resident three
birds) and 3 BARROW'S GOLDENEYES (2 adult males, 1 female). Scoping
back over Charleston Slough I had all 15 BLACK SKIMMERS.
On the San Jose count on Sunday 12/21/97 I again started out early at
Alviso. My primary job was to check gulls for Glaucous and Lesser
Black-backed (I failed to find either) and to make sure that the count
did not miss Greater Scaup and Black-bellied Plover this year by
getting out to A10 and Coyote Creek (I did manage to do this at
least). I met two Alviso parties and both were counting all gulls as
"gull sp", so I decided to try and get better estimates for each
species. During my 4-hour tour I tallied 18,487 gulls with 14,400
HERRING, 2,000 "sp" (probably mostly Herring, but this cushion allows
for more Thayer's and weird stuff that I could not pick out on distant
dikes), 1,907 CALIFORNIA, 97 GLAUCOUS-WINGED, 40 WESTERN,
25 RING-BILLED, 12 BONAPARTE'S, 4 THAYER'S, and 2 MEW. There were lots
of ducks on A11 (including 980 NORTHERN PINTAIL), A10, and perhaps ten
thousand or more on A9. The count circle only includes the
easternmost quarter of A10, but that was sufficient to get 114 GREATER
SCAUP (and 2 LESSER) out of the 800 or so scaup on this pond). Only
the extreme southeast corner of A9 is in the count circle, but there
were two SANDERLING feeding right there! along with 760 more NORTHERN
PINTAIL (thousands further out). The best birds, however, were 12
GREATER WHITE-FRONTED GEESE in 3 groups. A pair of adults appeared at
9:08am and after circling around a bit headed off to the east. After
5 minutes of viewing through the scope they appeared to be close to
Calaveras Reservoir. Another pair of adults came out of the north at
9:37am and, after circling for ten minutes, landed in A9 among the
PINTAILS. Finally, at 10:10am, I heard more birds calling and looked
up to see 8 more WFGO (6 adults and 2 immatures) heading to the north
high overhead. Twenty minutes later, the 5 Tundra Swans seen by David
Macintyre, Garth Harwood, and Tom Grey must have done the same thing -
but since they didn't call I missed them :(. Arriving at the
northeast corner of A9 I began running back to the Marina via Triangle
Marsh, flushing up the count's only AMERICAN BITTERN just inside the
count circle at the northwest corner of A15. Back at the Marina I
heard feeble brief notes from at least one VIRGINIA RAIL.
An hour spent searching the Guadalupe River near Highway 880 failed to
turn up the Prairie Warbler, but 2 female-plumaged COMMON MERGANSERS
were a nice find. Checking the San Jose Airport from the west side
netted an immature FERRUGINOUS HAWK.
The Lesser Black-backed Gull was not at Lake Cunningham, although
reported earlier in the day, but the 2 RED-NECKED GREBES were in the
northwest corner and allowed close approach for decent photos. Six
WHITE-THROATED SWIFTS (up to 25 according to Bob Roadcap) were
overhead, 14 AMERICAN WHITE PELICANS were near the island, a
first-winter THAYER'S GULL was on the lawn, a GREEN HERON was in the
reeds, and a SORA called once from Silver Creek despite the wind.
At Ed Levin Park I ran into Mike Mammoser and we failed to find the
Yellow-bellied Sapsucker. There were 6 male RING-NECKED DUCKS on
Sandy Wool Lake and another pair on the ranger station pond.
Calaveras Reservoir held no unusual waterfowl at the south end and the
wind at the Sierra Road summit was incredible - only managed a few
SAVANNAH SPARROWS.
At 4:00am on Monday 12/22/97 I met Dave Lewis for owling along Skyline
for the Palo Alto CBC. The wind was strong and we were not
optimistic, but the usual spot north of Skylonda was surprisingly calm
and produced 2 SAW-WHET OWLS, one right near the road. The wind was
worse along Alpine Road, but we did add a WESTERN SCREECH-OWL there.
The wind was still strong at Monte Bello, but thanks to some slightly
more sheltered spots we added another SAW-WHET OWL, 6 WESTERN
SCREECH-OWLS (including one well-seen in the flashlight beam out in
the open), and a distant NORTHERN PYGMY-OWL.
On to the Palo Alto Baylands after dawn, I failed to elicit a response
from a Black Rail but did see the immature GREATER WHITE-FRONTED GOOSE
at the duck pond. Two SORAS and a VIRGINIA RAIL responded in the
Moutain View Forebay, all to the others species calls. A quick peek
at Shoreline Lake turned up an adult male BARROW'S GOLDENEYE and the
SKIMMER flock was present in Charleston Slough. Dave Lewis began his
coverage of Shoreline Park and Alma Kali joined me to cover Sunnyvale
and the eastern half of Moffett Field.
In order to reach A3N at high tide we skipped the Sunnyvale pond and
headed out to A3W and A3N. An immature PEREGRINE FALCON was perched
on a tower behind the old landfill. Pond A3W had 16 RED-BREASTED
MERGANSERS, 10 BROWN PELICANS (4 adults), our only REDHEAD of the day
(a male), and 32 FORSTER'S TERNS. The water level in A3N is too high
for many shorebirds, although we did have one big tight flock of
MARBLED GODWITS, AMERICAN AVOCETS, and WILLETS there. Many other
shorebirds were already foraging along the bay edge here. Driving off
the dikes via Crittenden Lane we headed to the San Francisquito Creek
Delta, where we joined John and Maria Meyer and picked out 2
SANDERLING, 3 RED KNOTS, 1 RUDDY TURNSTONE, and a WHIMBREL among the
regulars. Three SORAS called from the marsh on the way out.
Returning to Moffett Field, a SORA and a COMMON SNIPE flushed from the
near edge of the Emily Renzel Wetlands and two male BLUE-WINGED TEAL
were in the North Pond of the PAFCB.
The Moffett Golf Course had big TRICOLORED/RED-WINGED BLACKBIRD flocks
with no cowbirds among them (the only BROWN-HEADED COWBIRDS we had all
day were 12 birds outside the count circle near the entrance to the
Sunnyvale ponds) and no rare geese. A single BURROWING OWL and three
WHITE-THROATED SWIFTS were the best we could muster, and were probably
not worth the visit given that we lost another half-hour when I locked
the car with the keys in the ignition :(.
Back to Sunnyvale things picked up. Among 1,100 CANVASBACK, 320 RUDDY
DUCKS, and 66 LESSER SCAUP, the 2 adult male TUFTED DUCKS were still
at the northwest corner of the main Sunnyvale Pond (first reported to
the Bird Box by James Walsh on 11/29/97 and not again since). Salt
Pond B2 had thousands of NORTHERN SHOVELER and RUDDY DUCKS and three
SANDERLING foraging on the islands. Driving north to the bay edge we
were greeted by at least 15,000 ducks (mostly scaup). I started
scoping the near birds and immediately came across an adult male BLACK
SCOTER with a raging orange knob on the bill. Between 4:23pm and
4:51pm this bird swam around the red buoy number 4 and the green buoy
number 3 off the mouth of Guadalupe Slough. Further scoping turned up
no other unusual ducks, but I only saw a small fraction of what was
out there. Across the bay a flock of 4,000+ MARBLED GODWITS took off,
about half of which were in the count circle. After 5pm a flock of
about 1,500 gulls came to roost in A3N. Most were HERRING, but I
managed to find 32 THAYER'S, including both 1st-winter and adult
birds. An adult PEREGRINE FALCON watched from the tower nearby as we
drove off after sunset.
On Tuesday 12/23/97 I took a mid-day trip to Jasper Ridge Biological
Preserve with Richard Jeffers in the hope of refinding the Rusty
Blackbird. Although the area was still filled with AMERICAN ROBINS,
CEDAR WAXWINGS, and other birds, we could not find the blackbird in
the heavy underbrush. Of course, if it moved away from the path area
it would be nearly impossible to find. We did have a WINTER WREN and
a VARIED THRUSH back in this corner of the preserve, as well as a
GREEN HERON, a pair of HOODED MERGANSERS, and 5 female-plumaged COMMON
MERGANSERS on Searsville Lake. The pair of adult GOLDEN EAGLES was
soaring over the preserve entrance road before we left.
A quick check of the North Pond of the Palo Alto Flood Control Basin
on 12/24/97 failed to turn up count week American Bittern or Swamp
Sparrow, but a pair of BLUE-WINGED TEAL and 30 REDHEAD (16 males and
14 females) were present. Also there was an adult male SHARP-SHINNED
HAWK near the Animal Shelter and an adult PEREGRINE FALCON perched out
in the Flood Control Basin.
Mike Rogers
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Subject: Birds
Most of my birding has been pretty ineffective lately. On Saturday, I missed
the Pygmy Owl at ALum ROck Park (no sign of Dippers either). The best
sighting was a Bobcat. On Sunday, I checked the Guadalupe River and Sierra
Summit. Highlights were a Yellow-shafted at the Guadalupe River. Sierra
Summit was pretty quiet apart from 60 Lark Sparrows.
Today I birded the mouth of Steven's Creek hoping for the Black Scoter. Lots
of scaup, Canvasback etc and at least 4 Surf Scoters. I ran into Mike
Mammoser and then immediately noticed a flock of large white birds had
materialised in the bay. These turned out to be 22 Snow Geese. Other birds
of interest included 2 male Eurasian Wigeon, 1 Horned Grebe, and 4-5 Clark's
Grebes.
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From email@hidden Mon Dec 29 14:39:06 1997
Subject: Pygmy Owl
All:
Maria and I tried for the Pygmy Owl at Alum Rock, Sunday morning. Several
other birders were there too. No luck.
John Meyer
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From email@hidden Tue Dec 30 03:20:54 1997
Subject: Black Scoter, Oldsquaws
All:
This morning (30 Dec.), I saw a SHORT-EARED OWL and a male EURASIAN
GREEN-WINGED TEAL at the PAFCB at dawn, along the edge of the landfill
at Byxbee Park. Scoping from the mouth of the Palo Alto yacht harbor,
I estimated (counting first by 100's, then by 1000's) more than 80,000
ducks, mostly scaup but including several thousand SURF SCOTERS and
lesser numbers of other species, in the bay. Luckily, most were in
Santa Clara County waters, though I could only scrutinize a small
percentage (maybe 15-20% or fewer), as the majority of the birds were
farther east/southeast toward Mountain View and Sunnyvale. Most of the
birds off the yacht harbor mouth were in Santa Clara County rather than
on the Alameda County side or in San Mateo County. While I was scoping,
a flock of 6 birds, including one female/imm. OLDSQUAW and 1 female
BLACK SCOTER with 4 SURF SCOTERS flew in from the northwest and
landed not far off the tip of Hook's Isle; these birds remained for
about 15 minutes before all taking off together and heading to the
NW into San Mateo County (and they kept going NW). Continued scoping
produced an adult male BLACK SCOTER and 2 more female-type OLDSQUAWS
among the thousands of ducks, all of these in Santa Clara County.
Given the difficulty of scrutinizing even the closest ducks and the
vast number that I could not study, I'm sure the number of such
"rarities" that were in that flock would boggle the mind. Too bad
I couldn't pick out any White-winged Scoters for the county's year
list.
Fortunately, the haze was not too bad this morning, but when the birds
are farther out and the haze is bad, it is next to impossible to identify
most of these birds. Nevertheless, I'd encourage others to spend some
time looking through these flocks; who knows what might show up!
Steve Rottenborn
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From email@hidden Tue Dec 30 10:23:44 1997
Subject: Monterey Peninsula CBC
Hi Birders -
The Monterey Peninsula Christmas Bird Count was held yesterday in
beautiful weather. Although we didn't break any records (personal or
otherwise), we did have some interesting birds, and one that has never
occured on our count before. We also had several visiting birders, most
notably Scott Seltman from Kansas, James Restivo from Connecticut and
John Sterling from Washington D.C. About 48 birders helped to count 176
species (unofficially). Highlights included:
TUFTED PUFFIN - You see! All you needed to do was answer my plea for
help on
the pelagic trip and you would have seen it!
ROSS' GOOSE - several
SNOW GOOSE - two
GREATER WHITE-FRONTED GOOSE - two
HOODED MERGANSER - seven
COMMON MERGANSER -three
PRAIRIE FALCON - very good considering we have very little grasslands inn
our
count cirlce
MACGILLIVRAY'S WARBLER - one in the Point Joe area of Pebble Beach
PLUMBEOUS VIREO - first count record, on 19th Street just south of Sinex
in Pacific Grove in
the pines on the west side of the street near
eucalyptus.
TOWNSEND'S/HERMIT WARBLER HYBRID - on Companion Way near 17-Mile Drive
in Pacific Grove in
the bottlebrush
Comments:
The Yellow-billed Loon was not relocated, however, Tufted Puffin is a
much better bird on this particular count.
Good birds for count week were two Greater Roadrunners in the ex-Fort Ord
area.
It was a good goose year.
Other lesser winter rarities included:
Palm Warbler
Nashville Warbler
Black-throated Gray Warbler
Bullock's Oriole
Violet-green Swallow
All typical owls were seen/heard. Most were in Robinson Canyon except
those marked with an *
Barn*
Western Screech
Great Horned
Northern Pygmy*
Northern Saw-whet
Spotted
Burrowing*
Big misses were:
Lesser Scaup
Cassin's Auklet
Golden Eagle
Hard to get birds on this count are:
1. almost all ducks. we missed Pintail, Shoveler, both scaup, Harlequin
we saw very few of the other species.
2. shorebirds - we missed Long-billed Dowitcher!
Considering the numbers of species in these two groups of birds, we had a
very respectable total. Maybe we could influence some of you from abroad
to help us out next year in this endeavor.......to find shorebirds and
ducks!
Until next year,
Steve Rovell
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compiler, Monterey Peninsula CBC
Steve Rovell
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Marina, CA
Monterey Co.
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From email@hidden Tue Dec 30 17:10:49 1997
Subject: A good day.
Birders:
I had a good day today as I conducted two surveys at CCRS. First of all
during my point counts I saw an immature male COMMON MERGANSER flying over
the water pollution control plant (WPCP) which then headed upstream along
Coyote Creek. There was also a PRAIRIE FALCON hunting over WPCP. The big
surprise was seeing a 'WESTERN' FLYCATCHER foraging along net 9385. This
bird was giving the high 'tsiip' contact call. I could not make sure that
the bird was banded, but almost surely this is the same bird which was
banded about two weeks ago.
Later on while conducting a separate survey of the waterbird pond I saw the
adult LESSER BLACK-BACKED GULL in the large flock of roosting gulls. Also
present were 425 HERRING GULLS but only 21 THAYER'S GULLS. I will have to
see what the numbers look like later on in the season, but it appears that
there is a distict increase in the numbers of THAYER'S GULLS at CCRS (or
the entire South Bay?) late in the winter. An EARED GREBE was an unusual
species for the waterbird pond.
Finally, yesterday while jogging along the coastside trail in Half Moon
Bay, I saw a pair of small white geese flying over the mouth of Pilarcitos
Creek. I am quite certain that these were ROSS'S GEESE. One of these birds
called giving a quick yappy call, I will have to check if this matches a
ROSS'S GOOSE call. I did not have my binoculars with me unfortunately.
Regards,
Al.
Alvaro Jaramillo
Half Moon Bay,
California
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From email@hidden Tue Dec 30 21:05:08 1997
Subject: Ted Chandik Trip
Ted's trip to Sacramento and Colusa NWR, December 13-14, 1997 has been
posted on SBBU.
HAPPY NEW YEAR!!
Kendric
South Bay Birders Unlimited (SBBU)
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From email@hidden Wed Dec 31 08:01:23 1997
Subject: San Antonio Valley (Mt. Hamilton CBC)
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Subject: San Antonio Valley (Mt. Hamilton CBC)
All:
Yesterday, 12/30/97, I took a ramble in San Antonio Valley as a part of
the Mt. Hamilton CBC. It was clear before dawn and quite warm on top of Mt.
Hamilton but owling from the summit to San Antonio Valley was relatively
unproductive with 11 GREAT HORNED OWLS and no screechies. In the valley,
water in the open was clear of ice, but water under shade was frozen from the
cold days of the previous week. I walked south from the San Antone Ranch (Bar
71 or Stoddard Ranch), basically paralleling the road and found the usual birds
in the valley oak and blue oak woodlands. South of the ranch I heard
a RED-SHOULDERED HAWK near a stock pond west of the road (after my walk I
checked this pond and found the hawk there in the afternoon). Stock ponds are
always a grab bag, and this year the big winner were BUFFLEHEAD, with a few
MALLARD, AM. WIGEON, and RING-NECKED DUCKS. South of the "yellow gate" in
open woodland with mostly valley oaks I found three LEWIS' WOODPECKERS and two
male PHAINOPEPLA. These would all have been visible from the road, either
south or north of M.P. 16.
Eventually, I turned east and walked up Ivy Spring Canyon to climb a
ridge and dropped down the other side to San Antonio Creek. The oak woodlands
change here to "chamisal"--chaparral dominated by chamise. There was
little in the way of seed set on the chamise and, as I worked the chamisal
patches, I found mostly FOX SPARROWS. All the Fox Sparrows I saw well seemed
very similar to the 'Sooty' form I see at my feeder. A few had some gray on
the auriculars and face, but this blended to brown on the crown, nape, and
back. Favorite spots for sage sparrow again and again yielded only ghost
memories of year's past. The frost at dawn had yielded now to a pleasant day
and shirt-sleeved weather. Just over the ridge I finally had a SAGE SPARROW
jump up for my viewing pleasure. They seemed very scarce this year, but maybe
that had more to do with the cruising SHARP-SHINNED HAWKS that were working
the chaparral. Coming down San Antonio Creek I finally ran into my first
NUTTALL'S WOODPECKER of the day and for, the first time, I could think of the
possibility of a seven-woodpecker day. Plentiful on my walk so far had been
ACORN WOODPECKER, HAIRY WOODPECKER, AND NORTHERN FLICKER, and I had also seen
one RED-BREASTED SAPSUCKER and the three LEWIS' WOODPECKERS mentioned earlier.
DOWNY WOODPECKER is, in the valley, the tough one.
For my return to the ranch I took a route on terraces on the east side
of the valley. In the oak woodlands here I found my first GOLDEN EAGLE of the
day, an adult soaring and being harrassed by the local COMMON RAVENS. A
female/immature MERLIN was working a MOURNING DOVE flock, driving them from
the oaks and pursuing them a bit and then returning to drive more out of the
trees. This was fun to watch (for me) and I guess if you keep doing this long
enough one of the doves will make a mistake and become dinner, but today the
Merlin was not successful. I found three more LEWIS' WOODPECKERS and another
male PHAINOPEPLA on the terraces here before I returned to the ranch. After
filling out my count form I saw a LOGGERHEAD SHRIKE next to the road. I then
stopped by the Stoddard house to leave a note about a dead calf and on
my return to the car I had a male DOWNWY WOODPECKER working in the oaks along
the creek here--a seven-woodpecker day!
I then drove north to San Antone Jct. for a bit of recreational birding.
There was another male PHAINOPEPLA here (where Mike Rogers had one in early
November, I believe) and, viewing a distant flock of goldfinches, I could see
at least three male LAWRENCE'S GOLDFINCHES clearly. I went back to my car for
the scope, but the flock didn't wait.
Bill
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From email@hidden Wed Dec 31 08:44:25 1997
Subject: Mt. Hamilton CBC/Long-eared Owl
South Bay Birders,
Yesterday Bob Richmond, Jimm Edgar and I birded Mines Rd. from 1/4 mile south
of the Ala/S. Clara south to the junction and then 6 miles down Del Puerto
Canyon Rd. We also briefly checked the Mallison Ranch just south of the
junction. The weather was amazing with an inversion layer that brought temps
to at least 70 by 11 am. I never thought I would be overdressed for a Mt.
Hamilton count. Anyway, here are the highlights.
Long-eared Owl/ One calling at 6 am at mile 27. First bird of the day, it was
calling when we opened the car doors! This is very close to the spot in Ala.
where Bob confirmed them nesting a few years ago. At mile 25.4 we had 2 N.
Pygmy Owls calling at 6:40. Also in this mile and a half were at least 3
Great Horns and a Screech.
The following birds were counted on Mines Rd.: Hairy Woodpecker (8), House
Wren (1 at Digger Pine Ranch, same spot as last 2 years), Canyon Wren (1),
Townsend's Solitaire (1 and possibly 2 at mile 22. These birds were well up
the hillside to the east where there are lots of manzanitas so be patient),
Phainopepla (1 male 1/2 mi. north of the junction and a pair at the junction),
Fox Sparrow (39 minimum, almost all of them in chamise patches and all
detected looking/sounding like our normal race) and Lawrence's Goldfinch (21
spread out all over). At the Mallison Ranch we birded just long enough to get
Tricolored BB and Cowbird. There was also a Prairie Falcon and a kettle of 30
Ravens. On Del Puerto Canyon Rd. at approximately mile 19 we had at least 3
Canyon Wrens. Also here was a Steller's Jay that seemed very out-of-place in
very sparse Gray Pine Woodland and a probable Winter Wren. It sounded to me
like a WInter Wren but it refused to ever run it's calls into the usual series
of 2 or 3 so Bob and Jimm were skeptical. A Pygmy Owl flew in to our
imitations (intended to provoke the Wren) and perched on a dead snag within 10
yards, staying until we finally left. All birds mentioned on Del Puerto
Canyon Rd. were in Stanislaus Co.
A Happy New Year to
everyone
Steve Glover
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From email@hidden Wed Dec 31 09:20:09 1997
Subject: Re: Mt. Hamilton CBC/Long-eared Owl
Steve:
>Long-eared Owl/ One calling at 6 am at mile 27.
Is this in Santa Clara County? Do you mean mile 27 on Mines Rd in Santa
Clara County?
>Townsend's Solitaire (1 and possibly 2 at mile 22. These birds were well up
>the hillside to the east where there are lots of manzanitas so be patient),
Is this in Santa Clara county too?
Thanks, Nick Lethaby
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From email@hidden Wed Dec 31 11:23:37 1997
Subject: Gavilan Hawk?
Does anyone know which species might have been known as the "Gavilan Hawk"
to people living in the South County/San Benito area many years ago?
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From email@hidden Wed Dec 31 11:41:50 1997
Subject: Re: Gavilan Hawk?
At 11:23 AM 12/31/97 -0800, Peter LaTourrette wrote:
>Does anyone know which species might have been known as the "Gavilan Hawk"
>to people living in the South County/San Benito area many years ago?
>
Peter,
Here is a guess. Gavilan is a Spanish word and it tends to refer to
Accipiters and Harriers. I am not certain of this but I think that in its
original meaning (in Spain) it referred to the Sparrow Hawk. In Latin
America it is used for many long-tailed hawks, including Crane Hawks,
harriers and the like. Buzzards tend to be called 'Aguila' 'Aguilillo' or
'Aguilucho'. My guess is that it refers to Sharp-shinned/Cooper's Hawk,
with an off chance of Northern Harrier. I hope this narrows the options.
Al.
Alvaro Jaramillo
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From email@hidden Wed Dec 31 15:20:45 1997
Subject: Long-eared Owl
Nick,
All birds mentioned were in Santa Clara County except the few Del Puerto
Canyon birds mentioned at the end. I may have confused some by calling this
Mines Rd., forgetting that it is only Mines Rd. in Alameda Co. and becomes San
Antonio Valley Rd. in Santa Clara Co. We found no labled mileposts but the
mile number was painted in the middle of the road. Mile 27 (where the Long-
eared Owl was) is in Santa Clara County by about a mile or so. The miles drop
as you head toward the junction with Del Puerto Canyon. Therefore, the
Townsend's Solitaire (at milepost 22) was about 6 miles south of the Ala. Co.
line. I believe that mile 22 should be about 2 miles north of the junction
and mile 27 should be about 7 miles north although these are approximate. I
hope this makes more sense.
Steve Glover
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From email@hidden Wed Dec 31 15:49:05 1997
Subject: Black Scoter and other rarities
Today I made another attempt to check the diving duck flocks on the bay. Not
much was visible from the Palo Alto Baylands so I headed out to the mouth of
Stevens Creek, where I found Mike Mammoser. Quite a few flocks of Surf
Scoters were flying by, perhaps 200 birds in total, with some landing on the
water. Eventually I picked out a female Black Scoter flying by in one of the
flocks, which obligingly landed right in front of this.
This was Mike's 275 county bird of the year. Earlier in the day he'd seen
the Red-naped Sapsucker at Arnold Ranch and 2 Townsend's Solitaires at the
summit of Mount Hamilton to overtake Mike Rogers!
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From email@hidden Wed Dec 31 16:39:51 1997
Subject: Bay Calendar Update
Larry Tunstall has updated the Bay Area Calendar for January 3-9 for SBBU.
Kendric
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From email@hidden Wed Dec 31 16:45:39 1997
Subject: Re: Long-eared Owl
On Wed, 31 Dec 1997, Sgloverccc wrote:
> Nick,
> All birds mentioned were in Santa Clara County except the few Del Puerto
> Canyon birds mentioned at the end. I may have confused some by calling this
> Mines Rd., forgetting that it is only Mines Rd. in Alameda Co. and becomes San
> Antonio Valley Rd. in Santa Clara Co.
To the best of my knowledge, Mines Road only becomes San Antonio Valley
Road south of "San Antonio Junction" - the 3-way intersection of Mines
Road, San Antonio Valley Road, and Del Puerto Canyon Road.
Mines Road has portions in both Alameda and Santa Clara counties,
with overlapping mileage marker ranges from each. It's therefore
highly appreciated for all Mines Road reports to attach a county
name to each mileage marker.
Cheers,
Adam Winer
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San Mateo, CA
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