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From email@hidden Thu Jan 01 15:54:27 1998
Subject: birds
Today I went birding with Steve Rottenborn in the vicinity of Summit Rd and
Loma Prieta. We saw very little, although we heard a distinctive chink call
that recalled a Thick-billed (Fox) Sparrow on Loma Prieta.
I checked the Campbell (&Oka?) Ponds on the way back and had 3 Hooded
Mergansers and 20 Ring-necked Ducks.
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From email@hidden Fri Jan 02 07:12:19 1998
Subject: Mines Road
Folks:
Adam Winer is correct about the current status of Mines
Road. It extends from the Livermore Valley to San Antone Junction where
it meets Del Puerto Canyon Road and San Antonio Valley Road. It was
not always this way. The mines of Mines Road were in the Blackbird Valley
and the Colorado Creek drainage well north of San Antone Junction and the
road inbetween was known as Beauregard Road and it is shown this way on
the topo sheets. Miledge markers are always appreciated.
Bill
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From email@hidden Fri Jan 02 08:19:29 1998
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 (and South Bay Birders) -- Alvaro's post was right on. In the only
reference I have thus far found, James Kedzie Sayre's "North American Bird
Folknames and Names" (Bottlebrush Press 1996), he lists the Sharpie as
"Gavilan de Sierra" and the Harrier as "Gavilan de Cienaga." While neither
is shown to be "Gavilan Hawk," it is in the ball park.
The problem with Sayre's book is that he does not list sources, so we have
no way of knowing if this usage was common in San Benito county, or
California, or from elsewhere, or _when_ the name was used.
For the past five years I have been working (slowly) on a Dictionary of
American Birds Names, complete with sources and regional references, that
goes far beyond Sayre and the others efforts, such as Choate, that are
currently out there. I'd be interested in where the "gavilan" reference
came up.
Good birding --
Luke
Luke Cole
San Francisco, CA
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From email@hidden Fri Jan 02 09:23:37 1998
Subject: Canada birds
Hi old friends,
Well, you may remember about a year ago I started asking questions about
Cozumel Island in Mexico. A great trip (B+ for birds) and we are all ready
to go back again. In fact, we were ready to return as our plane flew over
the hotel heading toward Cancun, Texas, and home. I still have some missed
birds there and I think that's a good shortcoming in my birding skills.
Anyway, we are heading toward the Canadian Rockies this summer. Canada
Geese, Canadian Geese, Canada Rockies, eh? We visited in 1988 for about a
month. I got no new birds but would like any ideas or hints for a few lifers.
We will be visiting Banff, Jasper, and the Drumheller area (The Tyrell
Museum and dinosaurs). Target birds will be Mourning and Connecticut
Warblers, Ptarmigan (Geez, all these hard to spell words), Spruce and Ruffed
Grouse, Three-toed Woodpecker, and Baird's Sparrow (in the vicinity of
Drumheller, I'm hoping). I have J.C. Finlay's "A Bird-finding Guide to
Canada" which gives you general ideas of what to expect. But, remember, I'm
down to a few birds and need particular bushes and that sort of thing.
Thanks, all.
Yeah, yeah. Someday I'll get out and get a few of the local misses.
Black-backed Gull and Pygmy Owl come to mind. I'll try Saturday morning for
the owl at Alum Rock.
Bah, humbug to all.
Don
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Subject: Annual Message
All:
The following information describes the operation of the South-Bay-Birds
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Suitable communications include reports of recent discoveries, information
on plumages for rare or difficult-to-identify birds, description of local
birding spots that are not available in the local guides, and summary
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Some background and information on how the data submitted to this
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who communicated bird observations in the local area via the Internet using
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course, to the present mailing list that serves a larger community. In
addition to the original purpose of the informal network the reports to the
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I will continue to use the records provided to this mailing list for the
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1. A record is considered complete if it includes the bird(s) seen, the
numbers observed, the location of the observation, the date, and the
observer(s). I will use records that are second hand if I am familiar with
both the observer and the person passing on the record. In this case I
annotate the record with _fide_ which is the accepted way of noting that a
record has not been directly obtained, but has been provided by the _fide_
source. I rarely use third hand records out of concern with the mischief that
occurs during information transmittal as the number of pathways increase.
2. I am selective in which records I enter in the county notebooks. For the
more common birds I may record a report of a particularly large number of
birds or an unusual plumage. For uncommon birds, or those that I feel are
marginally rare, I may record all observations, although I rarely provide
these in _The Avocet_. These records are particularly useful for clarifying
the temporal distribution of birds that are not permanently resident in the
county. I attempt to record all species that are listed as rare
on the current Santa Clara County Checklist. For common non-resident species I
attempt to record the first arrival and last departure dates.
3. I write the "Field Notes" column ten months a year and it is nominally due
on the first of the month. I usually try to draft the column at the end of
the month and then fit the last few records in before I deliver it to the
SCVAS office.
4. Four times a year I provide a "quarterly" summary of records for _Field
Notes._ There are currently three Regional Editors and they each get a copy
of my summary although they split the species up between them. Currently, I
send electronic versions to Don Roberson and Dan Singer and a printed version
to Steve Bailey. If you would like a copy of this quarterly summary and your
mailer is able to handle Word 6.0 attachments then send me a request to
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5. I entered all county records in the notebooks by hand up until the summer
of 1993 when I started writing the records to Word files on a quarterly basis.
I intend, eventually, to create a data base based on literal string recognition
and I've designed my data entry structure accordingly. But at this time the
computerized aspect is a simple computerized echo of hand-entry.
6. It is not always obvious to people providing records to this mailing list
when they should provide additional details on a record or even if they should
provide the record at all. There is no simple answer to this other than
experience. A useful example to consider is stimulated by the detailed
plumage description that Mike Rogers provided for a December 1996 Ash-throated
Flycatcher. This species is a fairly common resident in the county, arriving
in early April and leaving by the end of August. First and last records
within that range are of interest as are very early or late birds. Wintering
birds are so rare in the county that a detailed description is necessary. In
part this is not just because of the rarity, but also to exclude other
_Myiarchus_ that may just as likely be here at that season.
7. When a rarity turns up and this information is passed on many people obtain
the opportunity to see the bird. The very quantity of people seeing the
rarity tends to encourage sloppiness in people's records after the initial
observation. If the bird is missed for a week and then found a mile away is it
the same bird? We may be able to answer these questions if people are careful
to age and sex each rarity they see (if possible) and note any unusual
characteristics. Rarities frequently come in clumps and these descriptions
are useful. Please include these in your posts for the real rarities--it will
help all of us.
The South-Bay-Birds Mailing List provides many of us immediate
information on the occurrence of rare birds as well as the vicarious pleasure
of birding and discovery. That this mailing list has worked so well is a
tribute to its many faithful contributors and, perhaps, to the mailing list
rules that we've implemented. There is some arbitrariness, however, in these
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From email@hidden Fri Jan 02 10:21:51 1998
Subject: Re: Gavilan Hawk?
"gavilan de sierra" for sharp-shinned has the additional
resonance that "sierra" literally means saw/sawtooth.
w
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From email@hidden Fri Jan 02 14:13:19 1998
Subject: Levin Park
All:
Maria and I went to Levin Park this morning (Jan. 2). We refound
Chris Salander's Tundra Swan (reported on the Birdbox) on Sandy Wool Lake.
It had a larger yellow spot than we'd expected -- more like the eurasian
race depicted in the guides. We didn't find a Red-Naped Sapsucker. We
found a Red-Breasted Sapsucker in the trees along Calaveras Road; and found
the Yellow-Bellied Sapsucker in the dark-barked Eucalyptus tree where we saw
it last year. This tree is perhaps 70 yards east of the lake in the
southern part of
the park. It is between massed picnic tables and a small footbridge.
Two Bobcats strolled by the intersection of Downing and Calaveras.
John Meyer
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From email@hidden Fri Jan 02 15:27:45 1998
Subject: Snow Goose, Tundra Swan, etc.
All:
On 31 Dec. 1997, I saw the EASTERN PHOEBE (singing!) at Shady Oaks
Park. Seven WOOD DUCKS were in Coyote Creek here. Very unusual was
a road-killed female WILD TURKEY along Coyote Road near Scarlett Way,
north of Shady Oaks Park along Coyote Creek. The bird was a typical
"wild-type" individual and showed no signs of recent captivity, and
I know of no pens nearby from which it might have escaped. However,
I also know of no records of "wild" Wild Turkeys nearby, so I don't
know how this bird arrived at this location. At Lake Cunningham, I
saw the two RED-NECKED GREBES, 2 female COMMON MERGANSERS, and 3
female RING-NECKED DUCKS but was unable to find the Lesser Black-
backed Gull. At Hidden Lake Park off Milpitas Blvd. north of
Calaveras Road in Milpitas, I saw an impressive number of THAYER'S
GULLS. Twenty-three of the 80 or so gulls on this small lake were
Thayer's, with only 2 HERRING, 2 MEW, 1 GLAUCOUS-WINGED, and the
rest split about equally between RING-BILLED and CALIFORNIA. Even
more unusual were the age ratios of these Thayer's Gulls: I saw
two each of first-winter, third-winter, and adults, with 17 second-
winter Thayer's! My last birding in 1997 was split between Alviso,
Sunnyvale, and Palo Alto looking for last-minute Glaucous Gull and
White-winged Scoter, to no avail.
On 1 January, Nick Lethaby and I visited Loma Prieta. Birding was
pretty dull, the highlight being a NORTHERN PYGMY-OWL that called
twice from the edge of Summit Road between its intersections with
Morrill and Loma Prieta Roads (just barely within Santa Clara Co.).
On 2 January, I helped Rebecca jump-start her 1998 year list :)
At Shady Oaks Park, we got the EASTERN PHOEBE near the blue jungle
gym. An imm. GREATER WHITE-FRONTED GOOSE was at Hellyer Park; I
believe this bird was seen earlier this fall by Ann Verdi (?).
Lake Cunningham still had the two RED-NECKED GREBES, 2 RING-NECKED
DUCKS, and a female COMMON MERGANSER; a BARN SWALLOW over the lake
was very surprising, and two SWAMP SPARROWS were along Silver
Creek near the NW corner of the lake. Three CATTLE EGRETS were at
Arzino Ranch, and at Ed Levin County Park, the adult TUNDRA SWAN
was still at Sandy Wool Lake (the amount of yellow on the bill is
well within the range of variation in our North American "Whistling"
Swans). I ran into Scott Terrill near the ranger's residence in
the southern portion of the park, but much searching of the area
produced only a single RED-BREASTED and the male YELLOW-BELLIED
SAPSUCKER (no sign of Chris' Red-naped). A FERRUGINOUS HAWK was
soaring over the ridge to the east. At Calaveras Reservoir, an
adult SNOW GOOSE (visible both from Calaveras Road and from Marsh
Road) was foraging with 350 CANADA GEESE on the grassy slopes at
the south end of the lake.
Steve Rottenborn
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From email@hidden Fri Jan 02 23:56:11 1998
Subject: Arnold Ranch?
Where is Arnold Ranch?
Any info on the Red-naped Sapsucker seen there would also be greatly
appreciated.
Thanks in advance,
Vivek Tiwari
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From email@hidden Sat Jan 03 11:03:59 1998
Subject: Ed Levin Tundra Swan
I checked the swan out today. In my view this bird is at the extreme end of
"Whistling" Swan variation and could be an intergrade. I can't recall seeing
a Whistling Swan with this much yellow. Bowever, it certainly has less
yellow than typically shown by Bewick's Swan.
A couple of hours searching yielded 5 Red-breasted Sapsuckers but neither of
the two rarer ones. Doubtless they're there somewhere.
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From email@hidden Sat Jan 03 16:52:51 1998
Subject: Aņo Nuevo CBC
Hi everyone,
I thought South-Bay-Birders might be interested in an informal summary
of the highlights of the Aņo Nuevo CBC, held Saturday, Jan 3rd.
An immature HARRIS'S SPARROW was found by Peter Metropulos at the Aņo
Nuevo State Reserve. An OSPREY and a locally rare COMMON MOORHEN were
also in the area.
As usual, Ron Thorn turned up a nice bunch of birds along Pescadero
Creek, including 4 NASHVILLE WARBLERS, 1 WILSON'S WARBLER, a male
LAWRENCE'S GOLDFINCH, 1 SWAMP SPARROW, and a CASSIN'S VIREO. He also saw
the adult male YELLOW-BELLIED SAPSUCKER that is wandering up and down
Pescadero Creek for its third winter. It has apparently been spending a
lot of time in downtown Pescadero during the last few weeks, but it has
always been a very difficult bird to track down.
Francis Toldi discovered a SPOTTED OWL in a Santa Cruz County portion of
the count.
Barry Sauppe had a good day of seawatching, aided by strong westerly
winds. I don't have the exact totals, but some good seabirds were
FORK-TAILED STORM-PETREL, RED-NECKED GREBE, all the regular alcids
(including Cassin's, Rhino, and Ancient), BLACK-VENTED and SOOTY
SHEARWATERS, NORTHERN FULMAR, POMARINE JAEGER, BLACK-LEGGED KITTIWAKE,
RED PHALAROPE, and a GREATER WHITE-FRONTED GOOSE flying north with over
400 BRANT. Barry also had a PALM WARBLER and a BARN SWALLOW in the
Pigeon Point area.
The highlight of the day for me was a male apparent MALLARD X NORTHERN
PINTAIL hybrid with a flock of Mallards on a ranch south of Pescadero. A
small pond on this ranch had 5 HOODED MERGANSERS.
Another WILSON'S WARBLER was at the entrance to Butano State Park. Three
WHITE-THROATED SPARROWS were along Pescadero Creek and Cloverdale Road.
AMERICAN DIPPER, PILEATED WOODPECKER, PEREGRINE FALCON, and WOOD DUCK
were seen at several locations each. An immature FERRUGINOUS HAWK was
seen by three parties as it explored the Pescadero area. A couple of
"stake-outs" didn't cooperate, but Grant and Karen Hoyt turned up the
BLACK-AND-WHITE WARBLER along Water Lane in Pescadero, Dan Keller got
the CATTLE EGRET along Hwy 84, and Barry Sauppe saw the two PACIFIC
GOLDEN-PLOVERS that winter in the fields north of Pigeon Point.
The current, unofficial species total is 184, which is quite good for
this count.
Bert McKee
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From email@hidden Sat Jan 03 19:03:46 1998
Subject: Saturday birds and belated Moss Landing CBC report
Hi south-bay-birders,
Today (Saturday, January 3) I led a Santa Clara Audubon post-CBC
rarities chase in the Monterey Bay area. In the morning our group had
good looks at the HARRIS'S SPARROW (in spite of an untimely downpour)
along the north levee of the Pajaro River just east of the Thurwachter
Rd. bridge (spot is marked with an orange ribbon). In this same area a
SWAMP SPARROW was also still present this morning, although it skulks
and is harder to get a look at.
Other goodies seen today: a RED-NECKED GREBE was at the mouth of Moss
Landing Harbor. Not seen in the morning, but found upon a late afternoon
stop, was a second-winter GLAUCOUS GULL on the sandspit opposite
Skipper's Restaurant at Moss Landing Harbor. The GLAUCOUS GULL looked
big next to the Western Gulls; it had white primaries, light buff
mottling on the wings and mantle, pale eyes, and a black ring around the
end of its bill, which had a pale tip. There was another very pale gull
in the flock which also had whitish primaries, black bill tip, pink
legs, etc., but its smaller size and bill shape, extent of the black on
the bill, and overall structure made me doubt its identity.
On the Moss Landing CBC, on Jan. 1, I covered the Mount Madonna Co.
Park and Hecker Pass area with Jolene Lange. In the early morning we saw
2 WHITE-THROATED SPARROWS at the Santa Clara/Santa Cruz County line, on
the shoulder of Highway 152 directly opposite the Mount Madonna Inn
(Santa Clara County?). This spot is only a stone throw from the entrance
to Mount Madonna Co. Park. They were seen side-by-side in a large flock
of juncos and Golden-crowned Sparrows. Whenever a car passed, all the
sparrows/juncos would flush back into the undergrowth, then immediately
return to the roadside to feed. They seem to only do this early in the
morning, so around 7-8:00a.m. would be the time to look for them. In
this same general area I have found WHITE-THROATED SPARROWS feeding in
this same manner on at least 3 past Moss Landing CBCs. Since they
continually return to the open roadside they can be viewed repeatedly.
On January 1 there was also a Merlin perching atop conifers in this same
area. Owling along a logging road off of Highway 152 about a mile east
of Hecker Pass on Jan. 1 produced 1 WESTERN SCREECH-OWL, 3+ NORTHERN
SAW-WHET OWLS, and a NORTHERN PYGMY-OWL, all heard between 5 and 6a.m.
Walking this road by daylight I heard an unseen RED-BREASTED NUTHATCH
call. This latter area is definitely in Santa Clara County.
John Mariani
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From email@hidden Sun Jan 04 11:23:06 1998
Subject: Rough-leg, Prairie and Palm Warbler
All:
Yesterday (3 Jan.), Heather, Rebecca, and I went for a walk at Rancho
San Antonio. Quite surprising was a light-morph immature ROUGH-LEGGED
HAWK hovering repeatedly over the grassy hills above the tennis courts.
We saw this bird for about five minutes from a location along the path
between the tennis courts and the farm (where there is a broad gap in
the trees), but we were unable to see it from the tennis courts. Still,
I think it would have been most easily visible from the tennis courts
while it was hovering.
Today (4 Jan.), I checked the Guadalupe River just downstream from Hwy.
880 near the San Jose airport, hoping to refind the PRAIRIE WARBLER.
After about 10 minutes of searching, I saw the bird foraging in bushes on
the west side of the river. The bird foraged very actively near the tips
of the low branches and gave very good views for about five minutes (and
it was still visible when I left). This bird is apparently attempting to
overwinter. A single ORANGE-CROWNED WARBLER and three COMMON MERGANSERS
(2 males, 1 female) were farther downstream. Later in the day, at least
three male HOODED MERGANSERS were in the Oka Ponds (as seen from Hwy.
17), the PALM WARBLER was still at Great Oaks Park (seen by Heather and
me), and the YELLOW WARBLER was still along Homestead Road near the
public library in Santa Clara.
Steve Rottenborn
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From email@hidden Sun Jan 04 13:41:00 1998
Subject: Orange-crowned Warbler races
Hi South-Bay-Birders,
Does anyone have thoughts on the status of _orestera_ vs. _celata_
Orange-crowned Warblers in the Bay Area? Yesterday along Butano Creek I
had a bird with a very gray head that contrasted noticeably with the
upperparts, a rather long bill, and a lot of yellow on the underparts.
Ron Thorn had a similar bird on the coast recently. At this point, we
think these were _orestera_. We've also seen a few birds on the coast
that resembled _celata_, mostly in the fall. Although there are
definitely going to be birds that are not identifiable in the field, my
impression is that the extremes can probably be tentatively IDed. I
could be wrong about this, however--I've always found OCWAs to be very
confusing. Any thoughts? Perhaps someone who has looked at more OCWAs in
the east than I have can comment. Do they ever show gray heads that
really contrast with the upperparts? And again, it would be very helpful
if anyone has ideas on status and time of year of these two races around
here.
Thanks,
Bert McKee
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From email@hidden Sun Jan 04 20:10:43 1998
Subject: Volunteers for bird surveys--Fremont
Birders:
Arleen Feng asked me to post this upcoming chance to help out doing some
bird surveys. Any takers? Please reply directly to Arleen.
>
>Volunteers wanted--for surveying waterbirds at a stormwater pond system
>in Fremont, CA.
>The Tule Pond in downtown Fremont (east of the BART station) will be
>expanded in 1998 by the addition of several smaller settling ponds.
>Future plans for the site include facilities and access for educational
>use. As part of biological monitoring of the site, the Alameda County
>Flood Control District is planning to survey bird use during this
>winter/spring for baseline data, with follow-up next year. Experienced
>birders are invited to participate in surveys of waterbirds in
>pond/wetland areas, and possibly for resident upland birds as well. If
>interested, please leave a message for Arleen Feng at (510) 670-6651 or
>bu email at email@hidden.
>
>--
>Arleen Feng
>
>
Alvaro Jaramillo
Half Moon Bay,
California
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Helm guide to the New World Blackbirds, Birding in Chile and more, at:
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From email@hidden Sun Jan 04 21:49:12 1998
Subject: Barrow's Goldeneyes, etc.
Hi South-bay-birders,
Today (Sunday, 4 Jan.) while testing out a new tripod I observed 2
female BARROW'S GOLDENEYES on Shoreline Lake in Mountain View. Other
birds there included 1 BROWN PELICAN.
John Mariani
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From email@hidden Mon Jan 05 03:33:35 1998
Subject: Re: Rough-leg, Prairie and Palm Warbler
Dr. Michael M. Rogers wrote:
>
> Steve,
>
> Is "Great Oaks Park" Fair Oaks Park??
>
> Mike
Yes, I meant Fair Oaks.
Steve
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From email@hidden Mon Jan 05 03:35:41 1998
Subject: Re: Mt. Hamilton CBC/Long-eared Owl
MMAMMOSER wrote:
>
> Steve Glover wrote:
>
> > 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.
> Steve,
>
> Wilson's Warblers have a call note that sounds like a Winter Wren; the only
> difference being that they give it in single notes, without running them
> together into twos and threes.
While I haven't heard Wilson's Warbler give call notes in quick series of
two or three, I have heard Winter Wrens on a number of occasions give single
call notes.
Steve Rottenborn
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Subject: Re: 1998 Birds
Christopher Salander wrote:
>
> In the southern part of the park, we saw what I thought
> was a RED-NAPED SAPSUCKER. However, given my limited
> experience with sapsuckers, it could have been the
> YELLOW-BELLIED SAPSUCKER. It was male, with an all red
> throat from beak to black gorget. I went for RNSA on
> the strength of black shoulders, and very little white
> on the back. By the time I was trying to find red on
> the back of the head, it had started to roost, and had
> fluffed up its feathers against the cold. It was in
> a bare tree between the first parking lot and the pond.
> I opted for the more likely species.
I don't think the amount of black on the shoulders is useful
as a field mark for distinguishing Red-naped and Yellow-bellied
Sapsuckers. The back pattern and color are useful with good looks
and, especially, with experience with both species. The nape is
a critical mark. Unless ALL other characters pointed to a Red-naped,
I wouldn't think about calling a bird a Red-naped Sapsucker (rather
than a variant of Yellow-bellied or a possible hybrid) if I did not
see red on the nape.
Actually, based on the county records over the past five years,
Yellow-bellied is the more likely species in Santa Clara County.
Steve Rottenborn
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From email@hidden Mon Jan 05 05:25:11 1998
Subject: Re: Mt. Hamilton CBC/Long-eared Owl
MMAMMOSER wrote:
>
> Wilson's Warblers have a call note that sounds like a Winter Wren; the only
> difference being that they give it in single notes, without running them
> together into twos and threes.
I certainly agree that they are similar; I cannot tell them apart all
the time. Winter Wren does often give a single note, which helps to
confuse things. The only useful difference I've found is that the
Wilson's chip note is generally weaker and more nasal than the wren's. I
would describe the Wilson's as "kemp" vs. the strong "kip" of the wren.
Again, it is sometimes very difficult--Ron Thorn and I never decided on
a bird we heard the other day along Pescadero Creek.
Bert McKee
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From email@hidden Mon Jan 05 09:49:43 1998
Subject: 1998 Birds
On January 1, Jeanne Leavitt (JML) and I went
birdwatching in Ed Levin Park. In the northern part of
the park, we observed one TUNDRA SWAN [North American]
in the middle of Sandy Wool Lake. For those who haven't
seen it yet, the yellow on the nasal part of the black
bill is just a lozenge, two circles connected with a
straight segment. There were also RING-NECKED DUCKS and
an EARED GREBE.
In the southern part of the park, we saw what I thought
was a RED-NAPED SAPSUCKER. However, given my limited
experience with sapsuckers, it could have been the
YELLOW-BELLIED SAPSUCKER. It was male, with an all red
throat from beak to black gorget. I went for RNSA on
the strength of black shoulders, and very little white
on the back. By the time I was trying to find red on
the back of the head, it had started to roost, and had
fluffed up its feathers against the cold. It was in
a bare tree between the first parking lot and the pond.
I opted for the more likely species.
Also in the southern portion of Ed Levin, we observed
two RED-BREASTED SAPSUCKERs in the peculiar trees along
the road in the NE corner of the park, and at least
three YELLOW-BILLED MAGPIES. The park was full of ANHU,
including one female. We also observed two RUBY-CROWNED
KINGLETS bathing in the stream from just a few feet away.
On Sunday, January 4, we went to the Palo Alto Yacht
Harbor, from low tide to flood tide. While there, we
saw a dark MERLIN zip in, snatch up a sandpiper, and go
roaring out, disappearing into the Eucalyptus trees at
the end of Embarcadero. We also saw a COMMON RAVEN and
a NORTHERN HARRIER at the harbor mouth competing for
perching spots.
I spotted the GREATER WHITE-FRONTED GOOSE at the back
of the Duck Pond, then discovered it had already been
reported.
- Chris Salander
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From email@hidden Mon Jan 05 10:50:16 1998
Subject: Re[2]: Long-eared Owl
Adam Winer wrote:
>To the best of my knowledge, Mines Road only becomes San Antonio Valley
>Road south of =22San Antonio Junction=22 - the 3-way intersection of Mine=
s
>Road, San Antonio Valley Road, and Del Puerto Canyon Road.
This is true; Mines Road begins at the junction, heading north. The large w=
hite
mile markers that are painted in the middle of the road are only in Santa C=
lara
County. These indicate the mileage from the summit of Mt. Hamilton.
Mike Mammoser
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From email@hidden Mon Jan 05 11:14:08 1998
Subject: Re:Mt. Hamilton CBC/Long-eared Owl
Steve Glover wrote:
> 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. =
Steve,
Wilson's Warblers have a call note that sounds like a Winter Wren; the only=
difference being that they give it in single notes, without running them
together into twos and threes.
Mike Mammoser
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From email@hidden Mon Jan 05 11:19:37 1998
Subject: Re:Snow Goose, Tundra Swan, etc.
Steve Rottenborn wrote:
> Very unusual was
> a road-killed female WILD TURKEY along Coyote Road near Scarlett Way,
> north of Shady Oaks Park along Coyote Creek. The bird was a typical
> =22wild-type=22 individual and showed no signs of recent captivity, and
> I know of no pens nearby from which it might have escaped. However,
> I also know of no records of =22wild=22 Wild Turkeys nearby, so I don't
> know how this bird arrived at this location. =
Steve,
I recently reported a flock of 6 Wild Turkeys along Coyote Creek right at S=
hady
Oaks Park. I, too, have no idea how they got here, but they have been aroun=
d for
some time.
Mike Mammoser
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From email@hidden Mon Jan 05 12:25:29 1998
Subject: east of Mt Hamilton
All,
On 12/28/97 Steve Rottenborn and I once again headed over Mt Hamilton,
hoping for rarities and different looking Fox Sparrows. The FOX
SPARROW search was somewhat successful, with 136 FOX SPARROWS seen or
heard, two of which (out of about 30 well seen) were gray-backed birds
that may be of the race "schistacea". One of these birds was heard
giving a somewhat different call note compared to the other birds, and
this note seemed to be in agreement with what the literature indicates
for this race. Two other heard-only birds were also giving this chip
note earlier and were probably also gray-backed ("SLATE-COLORED")
birds. Despite arriving at a higher number than I had on 12/6/97 with
Mike Mammoser, there were actually far fewer Fox Sparrows around, or
they were much less responsive. Steve and I split up and walked long
stretches of road in good chaparral habitat pishing to get this total;
I would estimate that Mike and I had about 3 times as many birds
responding for the same amount of effort. Many of the birds Steve and
I had (especially near Mt Hamilton) appeared to be typical "SOOTY" FOX
SPARROWS, but especially farther east more and more birds seemed
grayer in the face and collar, had a clear gray supercilium, and had
rustier uppertail coverts. The call note of these birds was like the
"Sooty" form, so perhaps they are a different race of "Sooty" Fox
Sparrow, but they are not a bad match for Rising's "altivagans"
illustration (especially if you compare to the colors in the original
Canadian Birder's Journal article instead of Rising's book, which is
too dark). On the other hand, written descriptions and illustrations
of altivagans seem to vary rather substantially. Hopefully we can
straighten out the identity of these birds by examining specimens.
Other things of interest included a territorial chase between vocal
adult male SHARP-SHINNED HAWKS, the chaser with very prominent white
crissal feathers. At the same spot (about 4.5 miles east of Mt.
Hamilton) Steve had an immature bird fly at him twice when he pished.
We had several other SSHA on the day and a few COHA as well.
Otherwise an adult FERRUGINOUS HAWK south of the Gehri Bridge was the
only raptor of interest besides 3 GOLDEN EAGLES and a MERLIN (along
Mines Road south of Blackbird Valley). Pishing hard at chaparral all
day only resulted in 2 SAGE SPARROWS, 1 east of the pond on Del Puerto
Road east of the junction and another along Mines Road south of
Blackbird Valley. LAWRENCE'S GOLDFINCH were also scarce, with a pair
of flyover birds north of Colorado Creek along Mines Road (actually
only one of these birds was calling, so the other may be better left
as goldfinch sp).
Birds that were not found on the Mt. Hamilton Christmas Count two days
later included 3 VARIED THRUSHES (a few miles east of Mt Hamilton), a
LINCOLN'S SPARROW (milepost 0818), and a GOLDEN-CROWNED KINGLET (in
the big pine adjacent to the Fred Gehri Bridge in San Antonio Valley).
Other miscellaneous birds included two ROCK WRENS 7.5 miles east of
Mt. Hamilton, 2 RED-BREASTED SAPSUCKERS (NONE at our stop at the
Arnold Pond and Ranch!%$$#%^!$@!), 2 COMMON SNIPE at milepost 12, 4
LEWIS'S WOODPECKERS (3 near the "yellow gate" and 1 near the
junction), 2 male PHAINOPEPLAS (1 near the old nest site south of the
"yellow gate", the other south of Blackbird Valley on Mines Road), a
LOGGERHEAD SHRIKE (near the Gehri Bridge), CHESTNUT-BACKED CHICKADEES
all the way east to milepost 0881, 7 HAIRY WOODPECKERS, and several
HUTTON'S VIREOS.
Driving out Mines Road in Alameda County at dusk netted a GREAT HORNED
OWL over a possible nest at milepost 1.85 and 12 fly-by WOOD DUCKS.
Two days later on 12/30/97 I was back east of Mt. Hamilton working
Isabel Valley with Mike Mammoser for the Mt. Hamilton CBC. We had a
good raptor day, with 2 adult BALD EAGLES perched together at the big
reservoir, both SHARP-SHINNED and COOPER'S HAWKS (including a COHA
killing a CALIFORNIA QUAIL), an immature RED-SHOULDERED HAWK that
appeared to be acquiring some adult-like features, many RED-TAILED
HAWKS, 3 FERRUGINOUS HAWKS (1 adult, 1 immature, and an adult dark
morph bird!), 2 adult GOLDEN EAGLES, AMERICAN KESTRELS, 1 MERLIN, and
an adult PRAIRIE FALCON. The dark-morph FEHA was very cooperative and
allowed for photos while it perched and hunted in the area northeast
of the ranch houses.
Another highlight was a GREATER ROADRUNNER coming to a stock pond east
of the ranch houses - I was also able to get decent photos of this
bird. This was a long overdue species for my county year list and
allowed me to reach the nice round number of 275 for 1997. Rare for
the count were 2 female-plumaged HOODED MERGANSERS on ponds northeast
of the ranch houses.
Other birds of interest included 18 COMMON MERGANSERS (12 adult
males!), 14 LEWIS'S WOODPECKERS, numerous ducks, two LOGGERHEAD
SHRIKES, 7 HAIRY WOODPECKERS, a HUTTON'S VIREO, 76 FOX SPARROWS
(including good looks at 4 gray-backed birds at close range!) and NO
Sage Sparrows, 4 RED-BREASTED SAPSUCKERS, 2 male PHAINOPEPLAS,
8 COMMON SNIPE, 14 PRONGHORN, 10 ELK, COYOTES, and a BOBCAT. Leaving at
dusk added single GREAT HORNED and WESTERN SCREECH-OWLS, calling
without being solicited.
Wednesday 12/31/97 found me driving to southern California (no, not
for birds :( ) instead of keeping pace with Mike Mammoser, who added
three birds to his county year list to finish with 276, one ahead of
me. Congratulations on a very strong finish Mike! I did have one
decent bird on the drive south - an OSPREY perched along Coyote Creek
just west of highway 101 near the model airplane skypark (probably the
same bird that has been hanging around the Ogier Ponds).
Mike Rogers
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Subject: Final 1997 Composite List
FINAL 1997 SANTA CLARA COUNTY YEAR LIST
Remarkably, the Mount Hamilton CBC turned up a new species for the
county year list - a male RED-NAPED SAPSUCKER found on the Arnold
Ranch by Jean-Marie Spoelman, Maryann Danielson, and Lee Ellis and
relocated along San Antonio Valley Road the next morning by Mike
Mammoser! So our new record has been extended by one to the nice
round number of 305!
Mike Mammoser had a great New Year's Eve of birding, adding three
county year birds (one a county bird!) to finish at 276, one ahead of
my 275 reached the day before. A lot of activity for December. Steve
Rottenborn, without "doing a year list", still managed 268 species to
finish 3 ahead of Mike Feighner's 265. Steve never bothered to chase
many of the stakeouts found in the county this year but was the only
one of these four observers to find Heermann's Gull, nighthawk sp.,
Chimney Swift, Costa's Hummingbird, Gray Flycatcher, and Evening
Grosbeak. The four year list totals for these observers are all
excellent, exceeding all of the 1995 and 1996 individual totals!
I haven't heard from Kathy Parker in ages, and her total may well be
higher than the 232 listed - a very good total built up by lots of
work in January.
Bob Reiling reports that he hit 228 in 1997, which is 24 above his old
record!. Tom Grey was in hot pursuit with 211. Chris Salander's
finish was hampered by work, which prevented birding for much of the
second half of 1997 - he'll have to wait for another year to reach
that elusive 200.
If anyone else kept track of their Santa Clara County year list in
1997 (Al Eisner?) please let us know.
And now for 1998! Several of our rare stakeouts are still around
(Steve even refound the Prairie Warbler that disappeared for the windy
San Jose count), which should get us off to a good start. Please send
me your trip lists for the first few days of January so I can
construct the new composite list.
HAPPY NEW YEAR!
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:
305: 12/30/97 RED-NAPED SAPSUCKER
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
377 275 276 232 265 268 186 305
% OF COMPOSITE FOR 1997 90.2% 90.5% 76.1% 86.9% 87.9% 61.0% 100.%
% OF 377 72.9% 73.2% 61.5% 70.3% 71.1% 49.3% 80.9%
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
1997 TOTALS 228 275 276 232 265 268 186 305
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 12/31 12/30 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 12/30 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 12/30 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 12/31 12/30 JMS,MAD,LE
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 12/31 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 12/31 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 Mon Jan 05 12:56:21 1998
Subject: oops
Steve saw the only Calliope Hummingbird, not Costa's in 1997...
the note atop the composite list is in error - sorry.
Mike Rogers
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From email@hidden Mon Jan 05 13:31:59 1998
Subject: GOEA on 280
On Saturday AM, 1/3, we had an adult Golden Eagle on Sand Hill Road about a
half mile west of 280. It flew up to perch in an oak, just a hundred feet or
so from the road - impressive, when you've been on a steady diet of red-
taileds! Also the pair of kites is still in residence south of Sand Hill.
Happy New Year to all!
Janet Hanson
SFBBO
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From email@hidden Mon Jan 05 16:15:25 1998
Subject: Early nesting?
Hello All
Today (01/05/98) at 12:30PM I observed a female ANNA'S HUMMINGBIRD
looking for insects up and down a tree trunk at Murphy Park in
Sunnyvale.
The bird then flew up a short distance away and proceeded to sit on a
nest, presumably incubating eggs, about 8 feet up a Calif. Pepper
tree. I don't know if this is the earliest nesting record locally,
but it's the earliest I've ever seen a hummer on a nest. Nest
construction must have started in December!!
Does anyone know if this timing is common ?
Alan W.
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From email@hidden Mon Jan 05 16:37:02 1998
Subject: RE: Early nesting?
REPLY RE: Early nesting?
Alan,
Yes, Anna's Hummingbirds do start early. I recall coming across a downed =
nest with two dead fledglings in early January, seen on a fieldtrip about =
8 years ago in Pescadero near the creek. Nesting must have started in =
December.
Another early starter was a Red-tailed Hawk carrying nesting material to a =
nest along Felter Rd., seen in mid-December while scouting for the San =
Jose CBC about 4 years ago.
Les
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From email@hidden Mon Jan 05 16:37:35 1998
Subject: Re:Early nesting=?US-ASCII?Q?=3F?=
Alan Walther wrote:
> The bird then flew up a short distance away and proceeded to sit on a
> nest, presumably incubating eggs, about 8 feet up a Calif. Pepper
> tree. I don't know if this is the earliest nesting record locally,
> but it's the earliest I've ever seen a hummer on a nest. Nest
> construction must have started in December=21=21
> Does anyone know if this timing is common ?
Anna's Hummingbirds will typically start nesting in December (I have seen a=
female sitting on a nest in December at Matadero Riparian). It seems strang=
e,
but is actually quite normal.
Mike Mammoser
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From email@hidden Mon Jan 05 17:59:35 1998
Subject: birds
On Monday, 29 Dec 97, I went out to the mouth of Stevens Creek, =
hoping to find the Black Scoter seen by Mike Rogers the previous day =
on the CBC. Along the way, I had an adult PRAIRIE FALCON perched =
on a power tower at the mitigation tidal pond across from Crittenden =
Marsh. At the bay proper there were a large number of ducks, whose =
numbers I roughly estimated at 80000. I had a EURASIAN WIGEON =
along the edge of the levee towards A3N and later, after joining Nick =
Lethaby back at the mouth of the creek, we had two more. At one point =
22 SNOW GEESE =22appeared=22 on the bay well out, but by my estimate =
still in Santa Clara County. =
Later, in Alviso, I had an adult PEREGRINE FALCON and a =
MERLIN.
On Tuesday, 30 Dec 97, I joined Mike Rogers for the Mt. Hamilton =
CBC, where we counted in Isabel Valley. We had a killer raptor day =
including 2 adult BALD EAGLES, 2 adult GOLDEN EAGLES, 3 =
FERRUGINOUS HAWKS (including a nice dark morph individual), an =
adult PRAIRIE FALCON, and a MERLIN. Speaking of =22killers=22, at =
one point we flushed up a group of CALIFORNIA QUAIL while an =
immature COOPER'S HAWK was nearby. The hawk immediately flew =
to a perch outside of a dense juniper, where a number of quail had =
=22holed up=22. After a minute, it dove in and the quail burst out. An =
unusual squeal, however, indicated that one of the quails probably =
didn't make it. Other nice birds on this count included 2 female =
HOODED MERGANSERS, 8 COMMON SNIPE, a very cooperative =
GREATER ROADRUNNER, 14 LEWIS' WOODPECKERS, 4 RED-
BREASTED SAPSUCKERS, 3 SAY'S PHOEBES, and 2 male =
PHAINOPEPLAS.
The next day, 31 Dec 97, after learning of a Red-naped Sapsucker =
having been found on the Mt. Hamilton CBC by Maryann Danielson =
and Jean-Marie Spoelman, I was heading back across the mountain to =
the Arnold Pond. This pond is right along the road, surrounded by =
extensive willow growth, about 9.5 miles east of the summit of Mt. =
Hamilton. If you keep an eye on your odometer to measure the mileage, =
the pond should be quite obvious when you get there. After having a =
MERLIN near the summit, I arrived at the pond and walked up the road =
towards the east, keeping an eye on the telephone poles that ran from =
the east end of the pond along the feeder creek, where the bird had been =
reportedly seen. A RED-BREASTED SAPSUCKER flew into the =
digger pines on the south side of the road first thing after I got there, bu=
t =
continued searching produced no others. Finally, as I was staking out =
the second pole east of the pond, I heard a tapping upslope on the south =
side of the road (right where a =22rock catching=22 chain link fence starts)=
. I =
scanned the digger pines here, expecting to find the earlier sapsucker, =
but could see nothing there. Continued tapping kept me looking and I =
finally noticed some movement low in the chaparral. There, at the base =
of these bushes only a few feet off the ground, was the male RED-
NAPED SAPSUCKER. It was a typical-looking bird, with a solid red =
crown, a solid red throat, and a distinct red nape patch. I couldn't see =
any extraneous red in any area where it shouldn't have been, which =
might have indicated some hybridization. It had a narrower white =
supercilium line towards the nape than is shown by Yellow-bellied =
Sapsucker. At one point, the bordering black feathers completely =
covered this line, making the bird look as though it had only a white =
spot above the eye. I didn't think to look at the pale patch on the back, =
which might have offered more clues for identification, but I don't think =
this is much of a concern, considering the other characters.
After getting this new county bird, I headed back over the top to =
continue my search for year birds. I stopped at the summit to check for =
TOWNSEND'S SOLITAIRE, and while walking the road I =
miraculously had 2 of these birds fly into a tree downslope almost =
immediately after arriving. They were very similar to American Robin =
in size and structure, except that they looked entirely gray. When they =
flew I could see the pale wing patch and the white outer tail feathers. =
They disappeared quickly downslope, and I headed for the bay.
Shortly after arriving at the mouth of Stevens Creek, Nick Lethaby =
joined me and we watched small flocks of SURF SCOTERS flying by. =
Finally, Nick called out that he had a female BLACK SCOTER. This =
bird flew in with a couple of Surf Scoters and settled on the water, no =
more than 300 yards from us. It showed the white cheek patch and =
throat, and the smallish black bill that is typical of a female. This =
represented my third year bird of the day, and brought my total to 276, =
a personal best for me. I thank all the contributors to south-bay-birds, =
whose reports helped me reach this goal.
On Friday, 2 Jan 98, I went out to work on the county composite list for =
the new year. Highlights included a PEREGRINE FALCON over salt =
pond A12 in Alviso, a male TUFTED DUCK at the Sunnyvale sewage =
ponds, 12 BLACK SKIMMERS at Charleston Slough, a male and =
female BARROW'S GOLDENEYE on Shoreline Lake, 2 male BLUE-
WINGED TEAL and 5 REDHEADS on the flood control basin, the =
immature WHITE-FRONTED GOOSE at the duck pond, a male =
EURASIAN WIGEON in the mouth of the Palo Alto estuary, the =
immature LESSER BLACK-BACKED GULL and 2 RED-NECKED =
GREBES on Lake Cunningham.
On Saturday, 3 Jan 98, I had the TUNDRA SWAN at Sandy Wool =
Lake in Ed Levin Park and a MERLIN along Calaveras Road at the =
reservoir.
Mike Mammoser
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Subject: RNSA
All,
Up until 8:25am this morning the male RED-NAPED SAPSUCKER was still near
the Arnold Pond along San Antonio Valley Road. The bird was about 100
yards west of the sharp turn that overlooks the Arnold Ranch buildings
and was about 25-30 yards upslope on the south side of the road. It has
many wells in the small evergreen oaks between the Digger Pines. Listen
for the tapping as the bird can be hard to see through the vegetation.
Mt Hamilton Road and San Antonio Valley Road were very icy in the turns
this morning - be careful early in the am!
Mike Rogers
1/6/98
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From email@hidden Tue Jan 06 10:05:38 1998
Subject: Panoche etc.
I headed south for little central Calif birding on Jan 1 - Morro Bay and
vicinity, then Carrizo Plain. Lots of rain cut into the birding, but still
a good time - got my life Rough-legged, but dipped on LeConte's on the
Carrizo/Maricopa portion.
On the way down, I stopped at San Felipe Lake - 30+ swallows, a bit
far away but I'm pretty sure at least some of them were TREE SWALLOWS.
Yesterday on the way back I went through Panoche Valley from I-5. In
Fresno County I had VIOLET-GREEN SWALLOW at Little Panoche Reservoir,
1 MOUNTAIN BLUEBIRD at mile 7 of Little Panoche Rd in Fresno Co,, a MERLIN
at mile 9.7, 5 MOUNTAIN BLUEBIRDS 0.8 miles up the BLM Access Road (still
Fresno Co).
Then on New Idria Road (San Benito) at milepost 3.17, the Griswold Access
trailhead, there was a huge mixed flock of sparrows, including 300+ LARK
SPARROWS, in which I found 2 BREWER'S SPARROWS. This is a less than
totally confident i.d., as my scope was out (fogged, thanks to rain at
Morro Bay) and I've not seen too many of these nondescript little guys. I
bet a sparrow expert could extract more from this flock. I also saw a ROCK
WREN going into a hole in the stream bank here. A good number of the Lark
Sparrows were singing.
There were 10+ MOUNTAIN BLUEBIRDS along New Idria Road after milepost
10.00. At milepost 18.69 I found a flock of Juncos and a couple of
Scrub-jays mobbing a small owl. It was quite a way off the road on private
property and I only had a fleeting glimpse of thw owl - not enough for an
i.d. There were also Lesser and American Goldfinch here, but try as I
might I couldn't turn up a Lawrence's.
The reported TUNDRA SWANS (11) were still on Paicines Reservoir.
-- Tom Grey Stanford CA email@hidden
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From email@hidden Tue Jan 06 13:58:53 1998
Subject: Mines Rd/San Antonio
This morning I birded Mines Rd and San Antonio Valley with Bob Reiling and
Frank Vanslager. We got to Mile 27 at 5.15 am but there were no owls here or
further along except for 2 Great Horned.
Just N of San Antonio junction, we saw 2 Phainopeplas and a Lawrence's
Goldfinch. We saw a Lewis's Woodpecker at the ranch south of the junction
along with lots of Tricolored Blackbirds. We had good views of the male
Red-naped Sapusucker at Arnold Ranch on both sides of the road, along with
another unidentified sapsucker. We saw a Red-breasted Sapsucker at Smith
Creek. Despite extensive searching, we could not locate any of the
Solitaires seen last week.
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Subject: Tilley in Panoche
I forgot to mention - I found and retrieved a Tilley hat, size 7 3/8, at
milepost 20.52 on Panoche Road. If the owner is out there, let me know.
-- Tom Grey Stanford CA email@hidden
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From email@hidden Tue Jan 06 17:35:03 1998
Subject: WWSC
All,
I made a quick stop by the Palo Alto Baylands and scoped the Bay
from the old yacht harbor mouth. There are far fewer ducks out
there now, but what was out there was close to shore and contained
a high percentage of scoters. The birds were flying around a lot,
and I soon had a WHITE-WINGED SCOTER lift off from behind Hook's
Isle and head north into San Mateo County with some dark-winged
(Surf) Scoters. Also here were an adult BROWN PELICAN flying
north over the Bay and a SANDERLING flying south near shore (both
Santa Clara County). A raft of 400+ BONAPARTE'S GULLS was forming
just outside the entrance.
The GREATER WHITE-FRONTED GOOSE was still at the duck pond and a
quick scan of the Palo Alto Flood Control Basin from the frontage
road turned up 6 BLUE-WINGED TEAL (4 males, 2 females), only one
REDHEAD (a male) with 3 CANVASBACKS, an adult PEREGRINE FALCON
once again perched again on a post in the FCB (probably the Elwell
Court bird since a RTHA was on his tower), and a BLACK SKIMMER
foraging way out over Adobe Creek near the pump house.
Mike Rogers
1/6/98
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From email@hidden Tue Jan 06 17:44:32 1998
Subject: Oka Ponds
This morning there were eight HOODED MERGANSERS (four of each sex) at the
Oka ponds. A female MERLIN was in the large tree across the path from the
observation tower....On 1-4, while talking to a ranger at Lake
Cunningham, I learned that the park is going to be expanded near the
water slides (southwest corner). The ranger said that the city believes
there is no wildlife impact, but the ranger has seen borrowing owls on
the embankment that is going to be leveled. Do our Audubon people know
about this? Do they want to get involved?
Jack Cole
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From email@hidden Tue Jan 06 23:21:24 1998
Subject: GLGU, REKN
All:
Yesterday (6 Jan.), I saw a first-winter GLAUCOUS GULL perched with
other gulls on the edge of the golf course at Shoreline Lake. Two
female BARROW'S GOLDENEYES and a fairly high count of HORNED GREBES
(34) were on the lake.
At the Palo Alto Baylands, I scoped the ducks on the bay without
finding anything unusual, but two RED KNOTS were roosting with
shorebirds in the new marsh "pond" in the yacht harbor. The imm.
GREATER WHITE-FRONTED GOOSE and an ad. PEREGRINE FALCON were
also at the Baylands. Matadero Creek had the HUTTON'S VIREO and
an ORANGE-CROWNED WARBLER, the PAFCB had 2 PEREGRINE FALCONS
(ad., imm.) and 5 BLUE-WINGED TEAL (3 males), Charleston Slough
had at least 12 BLACK SKIMMERS, and a female REDHEAD was on pond
A-1. An adult GOLDEN EAGLE and an ad. PEREGRINE FALCON were near
the EEC in Alviso, and a LESSER YELLOWLEGS was in New Chicago
Marsh east of the Alviso marina.
Steve Rottenborn
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From email@hidden Wed Jan 07 13:43:49 1998
Subject: TUSW
All,
I made a quick check for the TUNDRA SWAN at Sandy Wool Lake today
1/7/97 and indeed the bird was still there, swimming in the middle
of the lake. It does indeed have an extreme amount of yellow for
a "Whistling" Swan...and also a lot of red showing on the tomium
as well. I talked to a local fisherman and he thought the bird
had been present by Christmas (he walks around the lake daily)
and also guessed that it had been released, which might indeed be
possible. Has anyone checked for bands? or pinioned feathers?
It did not flap while I was there and according to this guy it
rarely ever does much of anything. Also here were 3 female type
COMMON MERGANSERS and 4 male RING-NECKED DUCKS.
Mike Rogers
1/7/98
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From email@hidden Wed Jan 07 14:22:38 1998
Subject: Fall Challenge
All,
Many of you may be members of SFBBO and get "The Stilt", the SFBBO newsletter.
In the Winter 1997 issue there is a table of all the birds seen on the "Fall
Challenge with a column for each county in which Big Days were done. Santa
Clara County is listed first with the highest total of 163 species seen by
3 teams. The total should actually be 165, as Stilt Sandpiper (mentioned in
the article on page 2) and Common Raven were seen by the SCL teams. The five
species that Scott, Steve, and I missed on 10/12/97 that were seen by other
teams were Stilt Sandpiper, Wilson's Phalarope, Barn Owl, MacGillivray's
Warbler, and Bullock's Oriole.
Let's field more teams next year and beat that 165!
Mike Rogers
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Subject: SBBU update
Larry Tunstall has updated the Bay Area Calendar for January 10-16.
Mike Rogers has posted the FINAL VERSION of the 1997 SANTA CLARA COUNTY
YEAR LIST.
More sightings of Merlie the Merlin.
Kendric
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From email@hidden Thu Jan 08 14:59:03 1998
Subject: Lake Cunningham and Alviso
Hi South Bay Birders,
Today (8 Jan) I finally got a chance to head for the South Bay to look
at the Lake Cunningham gull and to give the Alviso _Calypte_ another
shot. I arrived at the lake at about 0745. A check through all the
available gulls did not turn up anything different. However, there were
still some gulls flying in and out of the main flock, so I kept looking
at them for a while (besides, these gulls were a nice change from the
Glaucous-wings and Westerns I've spent so many hours staring at lately).
Halfway through one of my scans, I got a shock. A darker-mantled gull
among the Californias lifted off the water to flap its wings. My
immediate reaction was "adult Lesser Black-backed Gull!?". It sure
looked like one, but I didn't want to be too hasty. I watched the bird
for about six or seven minutes, and everything I saw suggested LBBG. The
bird was just a little too distant and the sky a little too overcast to
confidently judge the eye color through my 20x77 scope, though, and it
unfortunately flew off to the northeast before I could get closer.
However, the head streaking, mantle color, leg color, overall size and
shape, bill shape and color, and wing pattern clearly eliminated all of
our regular gulls.
The mantle was perfect for a _graellsii_ Lesser Black-backed; it was
conspicuously darker than all of the California Gulls (overcast
conditions are good for judging shades of gray on gulls). I could still
pick out the darker mantle in the distance as it flew away with a couple
of CAGUs. I saw the legs three times: twice when the bird raised off the
water to flap, and finally when it took flight. They were clearly bright
yellow. The head was well streaked, and this streaking was mostly
confined to the head--unlike most of the California Gulls, which have
the streaking at least as heavy on the hindneck and sides of the neck as
on the head. The bill shape was also perfect for LBBG (shorter and
straighter than CAGU, without a pronounced gonydeal angle), as was the
bill color (bright yellow with a very large, oblong red spot at the
gonys).
I can only assume that this is Nick Lethaby's Alviso LBBG. I have seen
that bird twice, and I could not see any differences between it and
today's bird--the resemblance was striking. I guess I will submit a more
complete description from my field notes to the CBRC; they can either
consider it part of the Alviso record or reject it as Identification Not
Established (because I didn't see the eye color). If anyone wants to
look for this bird at Lake Cunningham, I had it at about 0810 out in the
middle of the lake before it flew off to the northeast.
There were a few other interesting birds on the lake. As I was looking
through the gulls, a RED-NECKED GREBE flew by, coming from the west side
of the lake. Later I saw two Red-necked Grebes swimming around the
marina together. I began scanning the far shore and soon found the first
bird, while keeping the two in sight in front of me. Three RED-NECKED
GREBES on one lake in a non-coastal county seems pretty weird. There
were also four AMERICAN WHITE PELICANS, two COMMON MERGANSERS, and one
GREEN HERON on the lake. I spent about three hours checking all around
the lake for the second-year LBB-type gull (and trying to refind the
adult) in the morning without any luck. Another hour of scanning in the
afternoon was also unproductive.
I spent an hour or so searching for the apparent hybrid _Calypte_ at the
Alviso Environmental Education Center, without success. I did see the
RED FOX SPARROW (along with a few Sooties), the YELLOW WARBLER, and an
adult COOPER'S HAWK there.
By the way, the apparent MALLARD x PINTAIL is still over here on the
coast; I got some distant photos of it yesterday. Ron Thorn also told me
that the apparent RING-NECKED DUCK x SCAUP is back, this time at Leo
Ryan Park in Foster City.
Bert McKee
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Subject: Immature Rough-legged Hawk
All,
At about 1:15 PM today, after having unsuccessfully looked for the Prairie
Warbler, Frank Vanslager and I saw what for an instant looked like a White-
tailed Kite just crossing the creek downstream of us and headed for the
airport. The bird had an overall light colored body, wings and tail. At that
point I noted that the bird was a hawk and not a kite. The bird was then seen
to pull-up, drop its legs and hover for 4-5 wingbeats (just like a kite). It
repeated this maneuver for 9 to 10 times during our observations as it soared
in circles over the airport (while looking toward the ground} as it gradually
moved upstream (toward downtown San Jose). We then drove to the pullout at
the end of the runway adjacent to Hwy 880 but we were unable to re-find the
bird.
Description: The most striking thing when the bird would hover was that the
upper tail was white with a wide, dark subterminal band and a narrow white
edge. The bottom side of the tail however was an overall light, dusky gray
with no apparent bands. The wingtips were black, the aft portion of the wing
was whitish (becoming darker toward the body) with the forward arm portion of
the wing being a light gray-brown to medium gray-brown. The wrists on the
lower wing had contrasting, darker gray-brown to black semicircular marks.
The upper wing looked much like the lower wing except that the forward arm
portion of the wing was darker with no obvious contrasting wrist patch. The
upper body excluding the head was about the same color as the upper wing. The
head did not contrast with the neck and chest and as such was an overall light
dusky gray. There was no obvious contrasting belly coloring. As such it is
apparent that this was a light-phase, immature, Rough-legged Hawk.
Questions/Comments?
Bob Reiling, 3:35 PM, 1/8/98
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From email@hidden Fri Jan 09 06:57:49 1998
Subject: Re: Lake Cunningham and Alviso
Bert McKee wrote:
>
> By the way, the apparent MALLARD x PINTAIL is still over here on the
> coast; I got some distant photos of it yesterday. Ron Thorn also told me
> that the apparent RING-NECKED DUCK x SCAUP is back, this time at Leo
> Ryan Park in Foster City.
Hi again,
Sorry everyone, there was a misunderstanding between Ron and I. He saw a
dark-backed _Aythya_ there yesterday, but said that it could have been
the hybrid back for its third winter--it was not close enough to be
sure. In fact, it did turn out to be a Tufted Duck; he called to tell me
that he had confirmed it this morning (the bird was much closer). His
report on the BirdBox has more details. My apologies for the
misunderstanding (never trust a second-hand report!).
Bert McKee
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From email@hidden Fri Jan 09 07:12:46 1998
Subject: Lake Cunningham swifts
All,
Yesterday Frank Vanslager and I also tried for the LBBG with no luck. The
only thing of interest at Lake Cunningham besides the Red-necked Grebes was a
even dozen chittering White-throated Swifts over the northeast side of the
lake.
Take care,
Bob Reiling, 6:58 AM, 1/9/98
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From email@hidden Fri Jan 09 10:27:58 1998
All,
After sketching out the pattern of yellow on the bill of the Ed Levin
Park Tundra Swan I looked at a few references to see what they had to
say regarding Wistling/Bewick's Swans and the amount of yellow on the
bill.
I found a very good match to the Ed Levin bird sketched out on page
316 of the October 1994 issue of Birding magazine. This sketch by
Shawneen Finnegan is drawn as a "Bewick's Swan". The match is very
good, including the overall extent of yellow, the way the yellow meets
the face, the amount of black over the yellow spot, the black indent
at the tip of the yellow spot, and the speckles of black in the outer
part of the yellow spot. However, the photograph on the cover of this
issue shows a bird with perhaps even more yellow on the bill and it is
called a "Whistling" with "an unusually large amount of yellow" but
"less than is shown by the average Bewick's form". Also, the Bewick's
photograph on page 314 shows much more yellow, including some over the
top of the bill.
Looking in Madge and Burn's "Waterfowl", the Ed Levin bird seems to
lie in between the ranges shown for both species, with less yellow
than a weakly colored Bewick's and more than a strongly colored
Whistling.
Maybe it's time to look at Evans and Sladen 1980 Auk 97: 697-703.
"A comparative analysis of the bill markings of Whistling and Bewick's
Swans and out-of-range occurrences of the two taxa."
Mike Rogers
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From email@hidden Fri Jan 09 11:11:05 1998
Subject: Re:
Mike Rogers wrote:
>
>Maybe it's time to look at Evans and Sladen 1980 Auk 97: 697-703.
>"A comparative analysis of the bill markings of Whistling and Bewick's
>Swans and out-of-range occurrences of the two taxa."
I just had a look at this and its interesting. Overall they found that the
range of yellow on Whistling went from 0% - 15.8%, while on Bewick's it
started at 22% and went up from there. They also use a classification
scheme (Darky, Pennyface, and Yellow neb) for bill types in Bewick's.
Pennyface has a yellow spot on the culmen, Yellow neb has the yellow of the
sides continuous over the culmen. Only 'darky' (yellow restricted to the
bill sides) occurs in Whistling Swan. Whistling Swans with more than 8%
yellow on the bill were rare. If good side-on photos are available of this
bird, one could replicate the methods this paper used in order to figure
out how it falls out. Someone previously mentioned 11% yellow, was this an
estimate or measured in some way?
Al.
Alvaro Jaramillo
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California
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From email@hidden Fri Jan 09 11:16:18 1998
Subject: P.A. Baylands 1/9/98
I was out at the Palo Alto Baylands this mornings for the SFBBO Clapper Rail
Count. High Tide
was at 9:40AM. Saw 3 CLAPPER RAILS in my area. A lot more were seen in all.
40 minutes after high tide, when the crowds had left the Black Rail spot, did
have leisurely
looks at a couple of BLACK RAILs and a VIRGINIA RAIL. 5-7 Black Rails were
seen in all.
A MERLIN flew past the parking lot. The resident PEREGRINE FALCON was around.
Also saw COMMON YELLOWTHROAT and MARSH WREN among the other common birds there.
Vivek
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From email@hidden Fri Jan 09 12:57:39 1998
Subject: Re:
I've seen a lot of Bewick's Swans and this bird definitely had less yellow
than is typical. However, it has a lot more yellow than is typical for
Whistling.
There is great variation in the pattern of yellow for Bewick's. In Britain,
they can identify individual birds by the pattern of yellow. A Bewick's
might show a pattern like this, but I suspect a Whistling Swan could too.
At 11:11 AM 1/9/98 -0800, Alvaro Jaramillo wrote:
>
>Mike Rogers wrote:
>>
>>Maybe it's time to look at Evans and Sladen 1980 Auk 97: 697-703.
>>"A comparative analysis of the bill markings of Whistling and Bewick's
>>Swans and out-of-range occurrences of the two taxa."
>
>I just had a look at this and its interesting. Overall they found that the
>range of yellow on Whistling went from 0% - 15.8%, while on Bewick's it
>started at 22% and went up from there. They also use a classification
>scheme (Darky, Pennyface, and Yellow neb) for bill types in Bewick's.
>Pennyface has a yellow spot on the culmen, Yellow neb has the yellow of the
>sides continuous over the culmen. Only 'darky' (yellow restricted to the
>bill sides) occurs in Whistling Swan. Whistling Swans with more than 8%
>yellow on the bill were rare. If good side-on photos are available of this
>bird, one could replicate the methods this paper used in order to figure
>out how it falls out. Someone previously mentioned 11% yellow, was this an
>estimate or measured in some way?
>
>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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Subject: Re:
At 02:57 PM 1/9/98 -0600, Nick Lethaby wrote:
>I've seen a lot of Bewick's Swans and this bird definitely had less yellow
>than is typical. However, it has a lot more yellow than is typical for
>Whistling.
>
>There is great variation in the pattern of yellow for Bewick's. In Britain,
>they can identify individual birds by the pattern of yellow. A Bewick's
>might show a pattern like this, but I suspect a Whistling Swan could too.
>
However, the paper states that while the extremes in the amount of yellow
shown by both of these taxa come close to each other, they do not overlap.
Based on their work an accurate quantification of the amount of yellow on
the bill sides should identify almost all birds.
Al.
Alvaro Jaramillo
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From email@hidden Fri Jan 09 13:48:09 1998
Subject: Guadalupe River Common Mergansers
All,
Today after seeing the Black Rails at the Palo Alto Baylands (and not seeing
any rare sparrows) Frank Vanslager and I once again failed to find the
mythical Prairie Warbler :-{(. The best thing in the Guadalupe River
downstream of the I-880 overpass was seven Common Mergansers (three absolutely
pristine males and four females).
Take care and keep smiling,
Bob Reiling, 1:35 PM, 1/9/98
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Subject: More Baylands
One addition to Vivek's note: a couple of birders saw the Nelson's
Sharp-Tailed Sparrow along the levee path about 2/3 of the way to the
airport channel. I hung around that area for about 20 minutes or so
after that, but I didn't see it. Some days or times it can be very
cooperative, other times very difficult....
Al Eisner
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From email@hidden Fri Jan 09 14:35:37 1998
Subject: Re: Ed Levin swan
>However, the paper states that while the extremes in the amount of yellow
>shown by both of these taxa come close to each other, they do not overlap.
>Based on their work an accurate quantification of the amount of yellow on
>the bill sides should identify almost all birds.
>
>Al.
If it's really true they don't overlap, then I feel the bird is closer to a
normal Bewick than to a normal Whistling Swan. Having said that, the bird
could possibly be a hybrid. In addition, I feel uncomfortable claiming
vagrants that significantly deviate from the normal appearance of a species,
especially as this is the only distinguishing feature. If we can establish
that this amount of yellow is regularly shown by at least a few percent of
Bewick's, I'd feel OK. It's possible it is, especially as Madge claims that
eastern population show less yellow (although still more than this in my
experience).
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From email@hidden Fri Jan 09 23:41:10 1998
Subject: Swan bill markings
The following BBC website has an illustration of Whooper and Bewick's swan
bills that explains what they mean by the terms Yellowneb, Pennyface and
Black Stripe.
http://www.bbc.co.uk/heading_south/bill.htm
Bruce
Bruce E. Webb
Granite Bay, California
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From email@hidden Sat Jan 10 02:36:00 1998
Subject: Re: Lake Cunningham and Alviso
Bert,
Three RNGR at Lake Cunningham is really amazing, but this has
been the best fall/winter ever for this species in SCL Co.
Your gull definitely sounds like a LBBG, and I'd accept it as
the same as the San Jose bird for the sake of conservatism.
However, it would not surprise me at all if we have multiple
adult LBBG in the South Bay right now. We only scrutinize a
very small percentage of the gulls around here, and given the
ease with which "the" adult LBBG disappears for weeks at a time
before being seen again, it would be easy for a rare gull to
escape us. By the way, Mike Rogers briefly saw an apparent
adult LBBG at Lake Cunningham on 31 Oct. 1997, but he was so
busy trying to photograph the immature we had found that day
that he was unable to get a good look at the adult before it
had flown.
If anyone does see "the" adult LBBG, please pay particular
attention to the pattern of streaking on the head and neck,
and describe this pattern as well as possible. Photos would
be great. If we do have multiple adult LBBG in the South Bay,
comparison of the pattern of streaking on the head and neck
might allow us to confirm this (but only if the sightings occur
in close temporal proximity).
Steve Rottenborn
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From email@hidden Sat Jan 10 12:08:29 1998
Subject: Baylands birds
In the hour or so before high tide at "Black Rail corner" I saw 6 BLACK
RAILS and a VIRGINIA RAIL. Later along the levee a number of us had fairly
good views both in the reeds across the water and in the foliage alongside
the levee itself of a NELSON'S SHARP-TAILED SPARROW. The PEREGRINE FALCON
flew by, and the GREATER WHITE-FRONTED GOOSE was at the Duck Pond. 2
BLUE-WINGED TEAL were right near the parking lot in the north pond of the
FCB. The usual couple of BARROW'S GOLDENYES were on Shoreline Lake.
-- Tom Grey Stanford CA email@hidden
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From email@hidden Sat Jan 10 14:08:45 1998
Subject: Re: Baylands birds
I'd like to add a bit more to Tom Gray's posting. Most importantly, because
of the storm, the tides are really high. I've been coming here for 6 winters
and I have never had such great looks at Black Rail as I had today of 3.
In addition, I spent some time at the yacht station. There were 6 Soras (one
being eaten by a Great Blue Heron) and 10 Clappers here. I had 2 sightings
of White-winged Scoter from here too by scoping flying scoter flocks.
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From email@hidden Sat Jan 10 23:16:44 1998
Subject: Lake Cunningham 1/10
At Lake Cunningham today around 1:30PM, 4 AMERICAN WHITE PELICANs,
a GREEN HERON on the shore near the Marina, and 3 AMERICAN PIPITs
on the grassy embankments. What may have been the Imm.
LESSER BLACK BACKED GULL was on the water, but I didn't have a scope
and couldn't confirm.
Vivek
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From email@hidden Sun Jan 11 14:40:41 1998
Subject: Glaucous-wing Gull
This afternoon. after getting close-up views of BLACK RAILS, there was an
adult GLAUCOUS_WING GULL at the Duck Pond at the Baylands.
Kathy Parker
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From email@hidden Sun Jan 11 16:24:52 1998
Subject: Sunnyvale WPCP
Hi Everyone--
I took a walk around the outermost levee at Sunnyvale WPCP today, and
saw 3 BROWN PELICANS fishing in the channel. There were 3 ORANGE-CROWNED
WARBLERS in the fennel patch on the west side of the old landfill, near
the intersection of Mathilda Avenue and Caribbean Drive.
Mark
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From email@hidden Sun Jan 11 19:57:54 1998
Subject: Palo Alto CBC
Here are the final results of the PA CBC. (For those of you who participated
and received a mail copy these results are slightly different.)
Penelope K. Bowen
Menlo Park, Calif.
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Palo Alto Christmas Bird Count 1997
Common Loon 1
Pied-billed Grebe 144
Horned Grebe 46
Red-necked Grebe 1
Eared Grebe 365
Western Grebe 60
Clark's Grebe 5
Grebe-W.or C.?Aechmophorus Spp 5
American White Pelican 10
Brown Pelican 15
Double-crested Cormorant 264
Great Blue Heron 32
Great Egret 93
Snowy Egret 117
Green Heron 4
Black-crowned Night-heron 44
Greater White-fronted Goose 2
Canada Goose 315
Wood Duck 45
Green-winged Teal (Amer) 412
Mallard 1295
Northern Pintail 1384
Blue-winged Teal 6
Cinnamon Teal 77
Northern Shoveler 15061
Gadwall 1180
Eurasian Wigeon 4
American Wigeon 2313
Canvasback 4427
Redhead 16
Ring-necked Duck 21
Tufted Duck 2
Greater Scaup 68
Lesser Scaup 393
Scaup Spp. 32583
Oldsquaw CW
Black Scoter 1
Surf Scoter 42
Common Goldeneye 149
Barrow's Goldeneye 1
Bufflehead 4287
Hooded Merganser 17
Common Merganser 13
Red-breasted Merganser 18
Ruddy Duck 14834
Duck Spp. 4845
Turkey Vulture 63
Osprey 2
White-tailed Kite 22
Northern Harrier 26
Sharp-shinned Hawk 17
Cooper's Hawk 12
Accipiter Spp. 1
Red-shouldered Hawk 23
Red-tailed Hawk 105
Rough-legged Hawk CW
Golden Eagle (adult) 2
American Kestrel 50
Merlin 6
Peregrine Falcon 4
Ring-necked Pheasant 3
California Quail 115
Clapper Rail 4
Virginia Rail 1
Sora 6
Common Moorhen 4
American Coot 8074
Black-bellied Plover 1034
Semipalmated Plover 68
Killdeer 172
Black-necked Stilt 1784
American Avocet 6973
Greater Yellowlegs 52
Lesser Yellowlegs CW
Willet 3471
Whimbrel 5
Long-billed Curlew 239
Marbled Godwit 4853
Ruddy Turnstone 1
Red Knot 3
Sanderling 8
Western Sandpiper 10874
Least Sandpiper 467
Dunlin 3352
Calidrid spp 2260
Short-billed Dowitcher 25
Long-billed Dowitcher 284
Dowitcher Spp. 1356
Red Phalarope 1
Common Snipe 3
Bonaparte's Gull 1224
Mew Gull 17
Ring-billed Gull 676
California Gull 1115
Herring Gull 1401
Thayer's Gull 34
Western Gull 696
Glaucous-winged Gull 397
Gull Spp. 2859
Forster's Tern 70
Black Skimmer 15
Rock Dove 688
Band-tailed Pigeon 199
Mourning Dove 607
Barn Owl 1
Western Screech-owl 10
Great Horned Owl 8
Northern Pygmy-owl 2
Burrowing Owl 10
Northern Saw-whet Owl 3
White-throated Swift 12
Anna's Hummingbird 407
Belted Kingfisher 3
Acorn Woodpecker 135
Red-breasted Sapsucker 2
Nuttall's Woodpecker 65
Downy Woodpecker 13
Hairy Woodpecker 15
Northern Flicker (Red-sh) 113
Pileated Woodpecker 1(h)
Black Phoebe 179
Say's Phoebe 16
Horned Lark 5
Swallow spp 5
Steller's Jay 118
Western Scrub-Jay 581
American Crow 79
Common Raven 151
Chestnut-backed Chickadee 493
Oak Titmouse 249
Bushtit 933
Red-breasted Nuthatch 2
White-breasted Nuthatch 26
Pygmy Nuthatch 4
Brown Creeper 11
Bewick's Wren 83
Winter Wren 3
Marsh Wren 17
Golden-crowned Kinglet 9
Ruby-crowned Kinglet 233
Western Bluebird 64
Hermit Thrush 56
American Robin 734
Varied Thrush 22
Wrentit 84
Northern Mockingbird 47
California Thrasher 19
American Pipit 118
Cedar Waxwing 467
Loggerhead Shrike 15
European Starling 1360
Hutton's Vireo 22
Orange-crowned Warbler 1
Yellow-rumped Warbler (Myrtle) 108
Yellow-rumped Warbler (Aud) 164
Yellow-rumped Warbler (form?) 750
Townsend's Warbler 85
Common Yellowthroat 12
Western Tanager 1
Spotted Towhee 105
California Towhee 254
Rufous-crowned Sparrow 2
Lark Sparrow 2
Savannah Sparrow 169
Fox Sparrow 37
Song Sparrow 55
Lincoln's Sparrow 6
Whi