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From email@hidden Wed Oct 01 08:47:19 1997
Subject: Composite list
OCTOBER 1 1997 SANTA CLARA COUNTY YEAR LIST UPDATE
Highlights from September include two second county records: Chimney
Swift (first was 9/11/95, also in Alviso) and Black-throated Green
Warbler (first was 10/20/94 to 10/30/94 in Los Gatos).
Find those vagrants!
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.]
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Recent progress of the composite list:
276: 9/10/97 LEAST FLYCATCHER
277: 9/14/97 WANDERING TATTLER
278: 9/19/97 CHIMNEY SWIFT (2nd County record)
279: 9/23/97 OVENBIRD
280: 9/28/97 BREWER'S SPARROW
281: 9/28/97 BLACK-THROATED GREEN WARBLER (2nd County record)
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
376 259 259 228 249 243 182 281
% OF COMPOSITE FOR 1997
% OF 376
1988 TOTALS 136
1989 TOTALS 183
1990 TOTALS 199
1991 TOTALS 214 209
1992 TOTALS 216 234 234 215 278
1993 TOTALS 228 254 250 235 279 295
1994 TOTALS 204 240 245 271 265 194 291 303
1995 TOTALS 201 220 170 257 242 165 262 185 293
1996 TOTALS 203 219 258 253 218 251 195 295
Red-throated Loon 1/ 1 1/ 5 1/ 6 1/ 3 1/14 1/ 1 MMR
Pacific Loon 1/ 1 1/ 9 1/ 1 1/ 3 1/ 1 1/11 1/ 1 m.ob.
Common Loon 1/ 8 1/ 9 1/ 6 1/ 3 1/14 1/11 1/ 3 MLF
Pied-billed Grebe 1/ 1 1/ 3 1/ 1 1/ 3 1/ 1 1/ 3 1/ 1 m.ob.
Horned Grebe 1/ 1 1/ 5 1/ 1 1/ 3 1/ 1 1/11 1/ 1 m.ob.
Red-necked Grebe
Eared Grebe 1/ 1 1/ 5 1/ 1 1/ 3 1/ 1 1/ 3 1/ 1 m.ob.
Western Grebe 1/ 1 1/11 1/ 2 1/10 1/ 1 2/ 1 1/ 1 SCR,MMR
Clark's Grebe 1/ 9 1/11 1/ 2 1/ 6 1/ 1 1/ 9 1/ 1 SCR
Northern Fulmar
Sooty Shearwater
Ashy Storm-Petrel
Brown Booby
American White Pelican 1/23 4/26 1/ 1 1/27 1/ 1 7/13 1/ 1 SCR,KLP
Brown Pelican 1/ 1 6/15 1/ 1 1/ 3 1/ 1 1/ 3 1/ 1 m.ob.
Double-crested Cormorant 1/ 1 1/ 3 1/ 1 1/ 3 1/ 1 1/ 3 1/ 1 m.ob.
Brandt's Cormorant
Pelagic Cormorant
Magnificent Frigatebird
American Bittern 3/13 3/ 8 3/19 3/13 4/ 3 1/10 NLe
Least Bittern
Great Blue Heron 1/ 1 1/ 3 1/ 1 1/ 3 1/ 1 1/ 5 1/ 1 m.ob.
Great Egret 1/ 1 1/ 5 1/ 1 1/ 3 1/ 1 1/ 3 1/ 1 m.ob.
Snowy Egret 1/ 1 1/ 5 1/ 1 1/ 3 1/ 1 1/ 3 1/ 1 m.ob.
Little Blue Heron 6/ 9 6/15 7/29 6/ 7 6/ 7 MLF,AME
Cattle Egret 1/ 8 1/18 1/23 1/ 4 1/14 2/20 1/ 4 MLF
Green Heron 1/ 8 1/ 5 1/ 1 1/11 1/ 1 3/23 1/ 1 SCR,KLP
Black-crowned Night-Heron 1/ 1 1/ 5 1/ 1 1/ 3 1/ 1 1/ 8 1/ 1 m.ob.
White-faced Ibis 9/ 5 9/ 5 9/ 5 9/ 5 9/ 4 AJa
Fulvous Whistling-Duck
Tundra Swan
Greater White-fronted Goose 1/ 8 1/ 8 1/11 1/ 9 1/14 1/ 8 1/ 8 m.ob.
Snow Goose 1/ 8 1/ 8 1/ 7 1/ 7 KLP
Ross' Goose 1/ 2 1/ 8 1/ 2 1/ 4 1/14 1/ 2 MMR,KLP
Brant
Canada Goose 1/ 1 1/ 5 1/ 1 1/ 3 1/ 1 1/ 5 1/ 1 m.ob.
Wood Duck 1/ 5 1/ 3 1/11 1/11 5/11 2/ 1 1/ 3 MJM,WGB
Green-winged Teal 1/ 1 1/ 5 1/ 2 1/ 3 1/ 1 1/ 3 1/ 1 SCR,MMR
Mallard 1/ 1 1/ 3 1/ 1 1/ 3 1/ 1 1/ 1 1/ 1 m.ob.
Northern Pintail 1/ 1 1/ 5 1/ 1 1/ 9 1/ 1 1/ 3 1/ 1 m.ob.
Garganey
Blue-winged Teal 1/ 9 1/18 1/ 9 1/ 9 1/ 1 2/ 9 1/ 1 SCR
Cinnamon Teal 1/ 8 1/ 5 1/ 2 1/ 3 1/ 1 2/ 9 1/ 1 SCR
Northern Shoveler 1/ 1 1/ 5 1/ 1 1/ 3 1/ 1 1/ 3 1/ 1 m.ob.
Gadwall 1/ 1 1/ 3 1/ 1 1/ 9 1/ 1 1/ 3 1/ 1 m.ob.
Eurasian Wigeon 1/13 1/19 1/14 1/27 1/11 1/ 4 DMu
American Wigeon 1/ 1 1/ 5 1/ 2 1/ 4 1/ 1 1/ 3 1/ 1 SCR,MMR
Canvasback 1/ 1 1/ 5 1/ 2 1/ 3 1/ 1 1/ 3 1/ 1 SCR,MMR
Redhead 1/ 9 1/ 5 1/ 9 1/ 9 2/ 6 2/ 9 1/ 4 DMu
Ring-necked Duck 1/ 5 1/ 3 1/ 1 1/11 1/ 1 1/ 3 1/ 1 SCR,KLP
Tufted Duck 1/13 1/18 2/ 2 1/24 1/ 1 1/ 1 SCR
Greater Scaup 1/10 1/ 5 1/ 1 1/ 3 1/ 1 1/ 9 1/ 1 SCR,KLP
Lesser Scaup 1/ 1 1/ 5 1/ 1 1/ 3 1/ 1 1/ 3 1/ 1 m.ob.
Oldsquaw 2/13 2/14 2/13 2/13 2/15 2/13 LCh
Black Scoter
Surf Scoter 1/ 1 1/ 5 1/ 1 1/ 3 1/ 1 2/ 9 1/ 1 m.ob.
White-winged Scoter
Common Goldeneye 1/ 1 1/ 5 1/ 1 1/ 3 1/ 1 1/ 3 1/ 1 m.ob.
Barrow's Goldeneye 1/ 1 1/ 5 1/ 1 1/ 3 1/ 1 1/ 3 1/ 1 m.ob.
Bufflehead 1/ 1 1/ 3 1/ 1 1/ 3 1/ 1 1/ 3 1/ 1 m.ob.
Hooded Merganser 9/24 1/ 3 1/ 1 1/ 3 1/ 3 1/ 1 KLP
Common Merganser 1/ 3 3/ 1 1/ 6 1/11 1/ 1 2/ 1 1/ 1 SCR
Red-breasted Merganser 1/ 1 1/ 5 1/ 2 1/ 3 1/ 1 1/ 8 1/ 1 SCR,MMR
Ruddy Duck 1/ 1 1/ 3 1/ 1 1/ 3 1/ 1 1/ 3 1/ 1 m.ob.
Turkey Vulture 1/ 3 1/ 3 1/ 1 1/ 3 1/ 1 1/ 3 1/ 1 SCR,KLP
California Condor
Osprey 4/ 3 3/ 1 2/ 8 3/ 3 1/10 1/10 SCR
White-tailed Kite 1/ 5 1/ 5 1/ 1 1/ 4 1/ 1 1/ 5 1/ 1 SCR,KLP
Bald Eagle 1/13 1/ 3 1/ 7 1/11 1/ 1 1/ 1 SCR
Northern Harrier 1/ 6 1/ 3 1/ 1 1/ 3 1/ 1 1/ 5 1/ 1 SCR,KLP
Sharp-shinned Hawk 1/ 1 1/ 3 1/11 1/17 1/12 3/ 9 1/ 1 MMR
Cooper's Hawk 1/10 2/12 1/ 7 1/ 4 1/12 2/16 1/ 3 WGB
Northern Goshawk
Red-shouldered Hawk 1/ 1 1/11 1/ 2 1/ 3 1/ 1 1/30 1/ 1 SCR,MMR
Broad-winged Hawk
Swainson's Hawk 2/ 8 2/ 8 MJM
Red-tailed Hawk 1/ 1 1/ 3 1/ 1 1/ 9 1/ 1 1/ 6 1/ 1 m.ob.
Ferruginous Hawk 1/13 1/ 3 1/14 1/19 1/ 3 MJM
Rough-legged Hawk
Golden Eagle 1/ 3 1/ 3 1/14 1/19 1/ 1 1/11 1/ 1 SCR
American Kestrel 1/ 1 1/ 3 1/ 1 1/ 3 1/ 1 1/ 4 1/ 1 m.ob.
Merlin 1/ 1 1/ 3 1/ 3 1/ 4 1/ 1 MMR
Peregrine Falcon 1/ 5 1/ 5 1/ 2 1/ 4 1/ 1 1/ 8 1/ 1 SCR
Prairie Falcon 1/23 1/ 3 1/ 1 9/ 5 1/ 1 1/ 1 SCR,KLP
Ring-necked Pheasant 1/ 1 1/ 5 1/23 1/ 4 1/14 1/ 1 MMR
Wild Turkey 3/ 5 3/ 9 4/ 5 7/20 3/ 9 1/26 LCh et al.
California Quail 1/ 3 1/ 3 3/20 1/ 4 1/ 1 1/19 1/ 1 SCR
Mountain Quail 5/ 7 5/ 4 5/13 3/21 1/12 LAY
Yellow Rail
Black Rail 1/ 8 1/ 8 1/ 9 1/ 9 2/ 8 1/ 8 m.ob.
Clapper Rail 1/ 8 1/ 8 1/ 2 1/ 6 1/ 1 1/ 9 1/ 1 SCR
Virginia Rail 1/ 1 1/ 8 1/ 7 1/ 4 1/14 1/ 1 MMR
Sora 1/ 8 1/ 8 1/ 7 1/ 6 1/10 1/ 6 MLF
Common Moorhen 1/ 1 1/ 5 1/ 1 1/ 3 1/ 1 1/ 5 1/ 1 m.ob.
American Coot 1/ 1 1/ 3 1/ 1 1/ 3 1/ 1 1/ 2 1/ 1 m.ob.
Sandhill Crane
Black-bellied Plover 1/14 1/19 1/ 2 1/19 1/ 1 1/ 1 SCR
Pacific Golden-Plover 7/30 8/ 4 7/27 DNo,JAb
American Golden-Plover 7/27 PJM
Golden-Plover sp 7/24
Snowy Plover 5/12 4/ 6 8/13 4/ 6 MJM
Semipalmated Plover 1/14 4/12 1/ 2 7/21 1/ 1 7/21 1/ 1 SCR
Killdeer 1/ 1 1/ 3 1/ 2 1/ 4 1/ 1 1/ 7 1/ 1 SCR,MMR
Mountain Plover
Black Oystercatcher
Black-necked Stilt 1/ 1 1/ 5 1/ 1 1/ 3 1/ 1 1/ 3 1/ 1 m.ob.
American Avocet 1/ 1 1/ 5 1/ 1 1/ 3 1/ 1 1/ 3 1/ 1 m.ob.
Greater Yellowlegs 1/ 1 1/ 3 1/ 1 1/ 3 1/ 1 1/ 3 1/ 1 m.ob.
Lesser Yellowlegs 7/ 7 3/ 8 1/ 2 1/17 3/26 1/26 1/ 2 KLP
Solitary Sandpiper 4/27 4/21 4/21 SCR
Willet 1/ 8 1/ 5 1/ 1 1/ 4 1/ 1 1/ 3 1/ 1 SCR,KLP
Wandering Tattler 9/14 PJM
Spotted Sandpiper 4/23 3/ 9 5/ 8 5/13 1/10 1/ 3 AV
Whimbrel 3/16 2/23 3/19 7/ 8 1/21 7/21 1/21 SCR
Long-billed Curlew 1/ 1 1/11 1/ 2 1/ 4 1/ 1 1/26 1/ 1 SCR,MMR
Hudsonian Godwit
Bar-tailed Godwit
Marbled Godwit 1/14 1/ 5 1/ 2 1/19 1/ 1 3/29 1/ 1 SCR
Ruddy Turnstone 7/24 7/21 4/17 4/17 SCR
Black Turnstone 8/17 8/17 MJM
Red Knot 9/24 4/26 4/30 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
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 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 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
Pomarine Jaeger
Parasitic Jaeger
Long-tailed Jaeger
Laughing Gull
Franklin's Gull 4/13 MDa,LDa
Little Gull
Black-headed Gull
Bonaparte's Gull 1/ 1 1/ 5 1/ 2 1/16 1/ 1 1/26 1/ 1 SCR,MMR
Heermann's Gull
Mew Gull 1/ 1 1/ 5 1/ 1 1/ 4 1/ 1 1/26 1/ 1 m.ob.
Ring-billed Gull 1/ 1 1/ 5 1/ 1 1/ 2 1/ 1 1/ 3 1/ 1 m.ob.
California Gull 1/ 1 1/ 5 1/ 1 1/ 3 1/ 1 3/ 1 1/ 1 m.ob.
Herring Gull 1/ 1 1/ 5 1/ 1 1/ 3 1/ 1 1/26 1/ 1 m.ob.
Thayer's Gull 1/ 1 1/11 1/11 1/10 1/ 1 3/ 1 1/ 1 SCR,MMR
Lesser Black-backed Gull 1/ 1 1/14 1/ 1 MMR
Western Gull 1/14 1/ 5 1/23 1/ 3 1/ 1 1/ 3 1/ 1 SCR
Glaucous-winged Gull 1/ 6 1/ 5 1/ 1 1/ 3 1/ 1 1/ 8 1/ 1 SCR,KLP
Glaucous Gull 2/10 1/11 3/ 5 1/17 1/11 m.ob.
Black-legged Kittiwake
Sabine's Gull
Caspian Tern 3/ 6 4/26 8/30 4/ 5 3/ 6 7/13 3/ 6 SCR,MMR
Elegant Tern
Common Tern
Arctic Tern
Forster's Tern 1/ 1 1/11 1/ 7 1/10 1/ 1 3/29 1/ 1 SCR,MMR
Least Tern 7/21 7/ 6 7/29 7/21 7/24 7/21 7/ 6 MJM,PJM
Black Tern
Black Skimmer 1/ 1 1/ 5 1/ 9 1/ 3 1/ 1 1/ 3 1/ 1 SCR,MMR
Common Murre 8/29 8/29 8/29 8/29 MLF
Ancient Murrelet
Cassin's Auklet
Rock Dove 1/ 1 1/ 5 1/ 1 1/ 2 1/ 1 1/ 2 1/ 1 m.ob.
Band-tailed Pigeon 1/ 3 1/ 3 3/ 3 3/ 8 2/13 5/11 1/ 3 MMR,MJM
White-winged Dove
Mourning Dove 1/ 1 1/ 5 1/ 1 1/ 3 1/ 1 1/ 1 1/ 1 m.ob.
Yellow-billed Cuckoo
Greater Roadrunner 5/17 5/17 1/ 3 WGB
Barn Owl 3/16 2/23 1/ 7 1/ 6 1/ 6 6/ 7 1/ 4 RWR,FVS
Flammulated Owl
Western Screech-Owl 2/15 1/19 3/21 7/20 1/19 MJM
Great Horned Owl 2/15 1/19 1/ 7 2/23 1/ 3 WGB
Northern Pygmy-Owl 2/15 1/19 3/ 8 1/19 MJM
Burrowing Owl 1/ 1 1/18 1/ 9 1/10 1/ 1 1/ 5 1/ 1 SCR,MMR
Long-eared Owl 1/ 6 5/11 1/ 3 GBi
Short-eared Owl 1/ 9 3/ 8 1/ 9 1/19 1/ 8 SSt
Northern Saw-whet Owl 2/15 1/19 1/ 1 1/ 1 MLF,JMa
Lesser Nighthawk
Common Nighthawk 6/12 SBT
Nighthawk sp. 7/18
Common Poorwill 5/ 7 4/27 3/21 3/21 MLF
Black Swift 5/24 5/24 MJM
Chimney Swift 9/19 9/19 SCR,SBT
Vaux's Swift 4/17 4/27 4/ 8 5/10 6/23 7/16 4/ 8 KLP
White-throated Swift 1/ 5 1/11 1/ 4 1/ 4 1/ 6 2/16 1/ 3 MtHamCBC
Black-chinned Hummingbird 4/22 4/12 8/11 4/ 3 5/14 4/ 3 NLe
Anna's Hummingbird 1/ 1 1/ 3 1/ 1 1/ 1 1/ 1 1/ 1 1/ 1 m.ob.
Costa's Hummingbird 7/18 7/19 7/18 7/18 DCr
Calliope Hummingbird 5/ 6 5/ 6 SCR
Broad-tailed Hummingbird
Rufous Hummingbird 3/15 3/29 4/ 1 4/ 3 2/22 TGr
Allen's Hummingbird 1/13 2/15 1/23 1/21 3/23 2/16 1/13 MMR
Belted Kingfisher 1/ 1 1/ 5 1/ 3 1/ 3 1/ 1 2/13 1/ 1 SCR,MMR
Lewis' Woodpecker 1/ 3 1/ 3 3/ 1 5/17 1/ 3 m.ob.
Acorn Woodpecker 1/ 3 1/ 3 1/ 7 1/ 4 1/ 1 1/19 1/ 1 SCR
Yellow-bellied Sapsucker 1/ 5 1/11 1/ 2 1/ 4 1/ 1 1/ 1 SCR
Red-naped Sapsucker
Red-breasted Sapsucker 1/ 3 1/11 1/ 1 1/ 6 1/ 1 3/22 1/ 1 SCR,KLP
Williamson's Sapsucker
Nuttall's Woodpecker 1/ 1 1/ 3 1/ 1 1/ 3 1/ 1 1/ 6 1/ 1 m.ob.
Downy Woodpecker 1/ 1 1/11 1/ 4 1/ 4 1/ 1 1/ 8 1/ 1 SCR,MMR
Hairy Woodpecker 1/ 3 1/ 3 1/ 4 1/ 1 2/23 2/15 1/ 1 MLF,JMa
Northern Flicker 1/ 1 1/ 3 1/ 1 1/ 3 1/ 1 1/ 6 1/ 1 m.ob.
Pileated Woodpecker 5/31 m.ob.
Olive-sided Flycatcher 5/ 6 5/ 3 5/ 6 5/ 4 5/ 8 4/20 4/17 JMa
Western Wood-Pewee 4/17 4/19 5/ 6 5/ 4 4/20 4/20 4/16 JMa,AV
Willow Flycatcher 8/30 9/ 1 9/ 1 8/31 5/27 5/18 LCh
Least Flycatcher 9/10 CCRS
Hammond's Flycatcher 4/12 4/25 4/12 MMR
Dusky Flycatcher
Gray Flycatcher 5/ 6 5/ 6 SCR
Pacific-slope Flycatcher 3/29 2/17 4/ 2 3/ 5 3/23 3/30 2/17 MJM
Black Phoebe 1/ 1 1/ 3 1/ 1 1/ 3 1/ 1 1/ 1 1/ 1 m.ob.
Eastern Phoebe 3/ 2 3/ 2 3/ 5 3/ 3 3/ 2 MJM,MMR
Say's Phoebe 1/ 1 1/ 3 1/ 7 1/ 9 1/ 1 1/ 8 1/ 1 SCR,MMR
Ash-throated Flycatcher 3/16 4/ 5 5/ 6 4/30 4/ 8 2/ 5 1/23 MNi,CNa
Tropical Kingbird
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 1/ 1 MLF,JMa
Brown Creeper 1/ 3 1/19 3/20 1/ 1 1/10 1/ 3 1/ 1 MLF,JMa
Rock Wren 1/10 1/ 3 1/29 1/ 4 5/13 1/ 3 MJM
Canyon Wren 1/10 2/ 9 3/20 1/19 1/ 1 3/22 1/ 1 SCR
Bewick's Wren 1/ 3 1/ 3 1/ 1 1/ 1 1/ 1 2/ 5 1/ 1 m.ob.
House Wren 3/15 3/16 3/20 3/15 1/ 1 3/22 1/ 1 SCR
Winter Wren 2/17 1/19 1/ 1 1/ 1 1/ 1 m.ob.
Marsh Wren 1/ 1 1/ 5 1/ 7 1/ 9 1/ 1 1/ 9 1/ 1 SCR,MMR
American Dipper 3/ 2 3/ 1 3/19 3/ 4 1/30 CFi
Golden-crowned Kinglet 1/ 3 2/15 1/ 1 1/19 1/ 1 2/ 5 1/ 1 SCR,KLP
Ruby-crowned Kinglet 1/ 1 1/ 3 1/ 1 1/ 1 1/ 1 1/ 5 1/ 1 m.ob.
Blue-gray Gnatcatcher 3/29 3/23 5/ 6 3/29 4/13 5/11 1/17 AJa
Western Bluebird 1/ 3 1/ 3 1/ 2 1/ 4 1/ 1 2/15 1/ 1 SCR
Mountain Bluebird
Townsend's Solitaire 1/ 3 GCh,HGe
Swainson's Thrush 5/ 1 5/ 4 4/17 5/10 5/ 8 4/17 KLP
Hermit Thrush 1/ 1 1/11 1/ 2 1/ 1 1/ 1 1/ 8 1/ 1 m.ob.
American Robin 1/ 1 1/ 3 1/ 1 1/ 1 1/ 1 1/ 3 1/ 1 m.ob.
Varied Thrush 1/ 3 1/ 3 1/ 7 1/ 1 1/ 1 2/15 1/ 1 m.ob.
Wrentit 1/ 3 1/ 3 1/23 1/ 1 1/ 1 2/15 1/ 1 m.ob.
Northern Mockingbird 1/ 1 1/ 5 1/ 1 1/ 3 1/ 1 1/ 2 1/ 1 m.ob.
Sage Thrasher
Brown Thrasher
California Thrasher 1/ 3 1/ 3 1/14 1/ 4 1/ 1 2/15 1/ 1 SCR
Red-throated Pipit
American Pipit 1/ 5 1/ 3 1/ 4 1/ 1 1/11 1/ 1 SCR
Bohemian Waxwing
Cedar Waxwing 1/ 3 2/17 1/23 1/ 3 1/ 1 1/ 3 1/ 1 SCR
Phainopepla 6/10 5/18 5/31 5/17 1/ 3 DSc
Northern Shrike
Loggerhead Shrike 1/ 1 1/ 3 1/ 2 1/ 9 1/ 1 1/ 5 1/ 1 SCR,MMR
European Starling 1/ 1 1/ 3 1/ 1 1/ 3 1/ 1 1/ 1 1/ 1 m.ob.
Bell's Vireo 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
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
Palm Warbler 1/ 5 1/11 1/ 4 1/ 3 1/ 3 1/ 3 MLF,CKS
Blackpoll Warbler
Black-and-White Warbler
American Redstart 8/ 8 8/16 8/11 8/12 8/ 7 8/ 7 SCR
Prothonotary Warbler
Worm-eating Warbler
Ovenbird 9/23 CCRS
Northern Waterthrush
Kentucky Warbler
Connecticut Warbler
MacGillivray's Warbler 5/11 5/11 5/11 MMR,MJM
Common Yellowthroat 1/ 1 1/ 5 1/ 2 1/ 6 1/ 1 1/ 8 1/ 1 SCR,MMR
Hooded Warbler 1/ 6 1/11 1/11 1/11 1/ 1 1/ 1 SCR
Wilson's Warbler 3/16 3/23 8/11 3/29 4/ 3 4/ 6 3/16 MMR,TJo
Yellow-breasted Chat 5/10 5/18 5/18 5/13 4/13 DLS
Summer Tanager 1/16 3/ 2 1/14 2/23 1/24 1/14 KLP
Scarlet Tanager
Western Tanager 4/24 4/25 5/ 6 5/ 7 5/ 8 9/ 3 4/20 AV
Rose-breasted Grosbeak
Black-headed Grosbeak 4/ 3 4/ 5 4/17 3/21 4/ 3 9/ 5 1/ 8 RCO
Blue Grosbeak 4/20 4/22 5/ 5 4/30 5/ 6 4/27 4/20 MMR
Lazuli Bunting 4/13 4/13 5/ 5 4/30 4/20 4/27 1/19 MMi
Indigo Bunting
Dickcissel
Green-tailed Towhee
Spotted Towhee 1/ 3 1/ 3 1/ 3 1/ 4 1/ 1 1/19 1/ 1 SCR
California Towhee 1/ 1 1/ 3 1/ 1 1/ 3 1/ 1 1/ 2 1/ 1 m.ob.
Rufous-crowned Sparrow 4/10 2/ 9 3/20 3/22 5/ 6 4/27 1/ 3 MtHamCBC
American Tree Sparrow
Chipping Sparrow 4/12 4/13 5/13 5/11 5/17 4/12 MMR
Clay-colored Sparrow
Brewer's Sparrow 9/28 9/28 MMR
Black-chinned Sparrow 5/ 6 5/10 5/10 5/17 5/ 6 MMR
Vesper Sparrow
Lark Sparrow 1/10 1/ 3 1/ 7 1/19 5/13 1/ 3 MJM
Black-throated Sparrow
Sage Sparrow 1/ 3 4/19 5/17 5/17 1/ 3 m.ob.
Lark Bunting
Savannah Sparrow 1/ 3 1/ 3 1/ 7 1/ 4 1/ 1 1/26 1/ 1 SCR
Grasshopper Sparrow 4/10 4/20 4/16 5/ 4 4/13 4/10 MMR
Nelson's Sharp-tailed Sparrow 1/ 8 1/ 8 1/ 9 1/ 9 2/ 9 1/ 8 m.ob.
Fox Sparrow 1/ 1 1/ 3 1/11 1/11 1/ 1 1/ 8 1/ 1 m.ob.
Song Sparrow 1/ 1 1/ 5 1/ 2 1/ 4 1/ 1 1/ 3 1/ 1 SCR,MMR
Lincoln's Sparrow 1/ 1 1/ 5 1/ 9 1/11 1/ 1 2/ 5 1/ 1 SCR,MMR
Swamp Sparrow
White-throated Sparrow 4/17 1/16 1/ 6 KNe
Golden-crowned Sparrow 1/ 1 1/ 3 1/ 1 1/ 4 1/ 1 1/ 3 1/ 1 m.ob.
White-crowned Sparrow 1/ 1 1/ 3 1/ 1 1/ 3 1/ 1 1/ 3 1/ 1 m.ob.
Harris' Sparrow
Dark-eyed Junco 1/ 3 1/ 3 1/ 1 1/ 1 1/ 1 1/ 3 1/ 1 m.ob.
Lapland Longspur
Chestnut-collared Longspur
Bobolink 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
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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Subject: SC List and New Links on SBBU
Mike Rogers has updated his Santa Clara County List as of October 1.
276: 9/10/97 LEAST FLYCATCHER
277: 9/14/97 WANDERING TATTLER
278: 9/19/97 CHIMNEY SWIFT (2nd County record)
279: 9/23/97 OVENBIRD
280: 9/28/97 BREWER'S SPARROW
281: 9/28/97 BLACK-THROATED GREEN WARBLER (2nd County record)
I have added a new link, thanks to Paul Armer, to a home page that has trip
lists from around the world.
http://www.xnet.com/~ugeiser/Birds/TripReports/
Kendric
South Bay Birders Unlimited (SBBU)
http://www-leland.stanford.edu/~kendric/birds/
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From email@hidden Thu Oct 02 08:54:54 1997
Subject: swallows
All,
This morning a quick check of the Palo Alto Baylands turned up
105+ VIOLET-GREEN SWALLOWS and 1 BARN SWALLOW. The nearby IT&T
field wires had another 700+ VIOLET-GREEN SWALLOWS. Warbler
numbers (besides YELLOW-RUMPED WARBLERS) were down, with only
5 YELLOW WARBLERS and 1-2 ORANGE-CROWNED WARBLERS at the fennel
patch and the end of Embarcadero Way.
Mike Rogers
10/2/97
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From email@hidden Fri Oct 03 08:10:10 1997
Subject: Black Skimmers, Brown Pelicans
All:
Very still on Charleston Slough before sunrise this morning, 3 Oct 97,
and two BLACK SKIMMERS were quite close to the bike path foraging on the
surface. Flying out towards their more typical location they joined six
others who were also in flight. An ad. BROWN PELICAN was on A1 and an imm. was
over A2W. Wednesday, 1 Oct 97, in a feeding frenzy on A2W I counted 21 ad.
and sub-ad. and 10 imm. Brown Pelicans in a flock of 265 AM. WHITE PELICANS and
approximately 2000 CALIFORNIA GULLS.
Bill
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From email@hidden Fri Oct 03 08:13:56 1997
All,
On Wednesday evening 10/1/97 Ann Verdi found a CHIMNEY SWIFT among a
flock of 30+ VIOLET-GREEN SWALLOWS, 6+ VAUX'S SWIFTS and a TREE
SWALLOW. This bird was in the flock over the Coleman Road Ponds just
west of Meridian, where she has had up to 150+ VAUX'S SWIFTS in
mid-Sept. She was made aware of the CHIMNEY SWIFT by its habit of
continually chasing VAUX'S SWIFTS and even a swallow. During these
chases she noted that the CHSW was larger, darker, and longer-winged
than the adjacent VASW, and that the bird's flight style consisted of
slower, less stiff wing beats with more gliding than the VASW.
Yesterday evening 10/2/97 I checked this flock from the corner of
Meander and Coleman, hoping that the CHSW would still be around (it
turns out Ann was also nearby checking the flock again). Yesterday
the flock consisted of 50+ VAUX'S SWIFTS, 3+ VIOLET-GREEN SWALLOWS,
and a TREE SWALLOW. Despite getting excited about an occasional
low-flying VAUX'S SWIFT that appeared a little larger from that short
distance, I could not find a CHSW. There wero no aggresive
interactions as Ann had observed the day before and all the calls I
heard were the feeble twittering of the VAUX'S SWIFTS and not the
louder calls of a CHSW. Still, the birds provided an enjoyable 45
minutes of viewing as they flew around overhead, sometimes too high to
be visible with the naked eye, sometimes quite low.
Presumably these birds are roosting somewhere in the neighborhood. It
would be interesting to try and track them to the roost, perhaps from
some slightly elevated vantage point.
Mike Rogers
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From email@hidden Fri Oct 03 12:43:17 1997
Subject: Lockheed Burrowing Owls
All:
Over lunch I tried refinding Peter Metropolus's Stilt Sandpiper that he
reported last night to the Northern California Bird Box around the
Lockheed Ponds. There were plenty of Least and Western Sandpipers and
Dowitchers but no Stilt Sandpiper at least at these ponds. There was
some sort of explosion in the east at noon that caused a violent taking
into flight of all the ducks over much of the Sunnyvale Sewage Ponds.
What a sight!
Good news is that I have found a pair of Burrowing Owls on Lockheed
property. These ones have gotten smart. They have selected an old
squirrel hole that is within a fenced-in area. There are no plans for
construction or other such disturbance.
The location is at the north-west corner of Building 156 near the corner
of 1st Avenue and J Street. At the corner there is a stop sign, and
there is gate nearby with the number 156-8.
I too birded the Coleman Ponds mentioned in Mike Rogers' report late
yesterday. However, I birded around the end of Bergamo Ct. which is on
the old location of the Almaden Winery. The large number of Vaux's
Swifts showed up at about 5:45 PM and disappeared at about 6 PM. Most
of the time the swifts where high up and at some distance from my
vantage point. The birds just showed up out of the blue. As Mike
Rogers states, the roost area must be nearby. While waiting for
something to appear from 5:00 to 5:45 PM one escaped white Budgerigar
flew by in a flock of eight Red-winged Blackbirds.
Good birding
Mike Feighner, Livermore, CA, email@hidden, 10/3/97, 1:37 PM
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From email@hidden Fri Oct 03 17:39:45 1997
Subject: Sharp-tailed Sandpiper at CCRS
All:
This evening (10/3), I found a juvenile Sharp-tailed Sandpiper at the
shorebird pond at CCRS (Coyote Creek Riparian Station) in Milpitas (Santa
Clara County). There was also a juvenile female Ruff here (there are two in
the area).
This is a private area but you can gain access by joining CCRS.
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Tel: (408) 941 0223 Milpitas, CA 95035
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From email@hidden Sat Oct 04 07:44:45 1997
Subject: Mystery Duck at PA Baylands
All,
While at the PA Baylands Saturday morning (10/4/97) at 8 AM I noticed an
odd-looking duck swimming with the Mallards. It seems likely to be a
mutant or hybrid of sorts, but I thought I'd see if anyone else has seen it
and has any ideas about it. It was the same shape as the Mallards, but
about 10-15% smaller, with a black head and black/brown body with a hint of
the normal Mallard wing coloration pattern done in shades of black/brown.
It had an all white neck-front/breast to below the water line, somewhat
mottled at the edges. It had a distinct but uneven white eyeline about one
inch long starting just behind each eye, but on the right side only the
line extended in front of the eye about 1/2 inch. It had a black bill with
a slightly lighter 1/2 inch at the tip. The tail feathers didn't curl up
like a male mallard and it looked as though the area beneath the tail was
speckled tan and brown, but I didn't get a good look at it. It looked a
lot like the accompanying Mallards in its swimming, preening, and diving
techniques.
Dick Strubbe - Quality Assurance
Hernandez Engineering, Inc.
NASA - Ames Research Center
Moffett Field, CA 94035
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From email@hidden Sun Oct 05 14:29:51 1997
Subject: Tropical Kingbird at Matadero Cr. 10/5/97
Birders -
Inspired by Kenn Kaufman's Friday lecture and by my purchase of his book,
"Kingbird Highway," I went to Matadero Creek this morning (Sunday), and
at about 8:40 I in fact found a kingbird perched across the creek from the
second pump station, about 250 meters from the frontage road. I got a good
(if not long) look at the bill in profile, and the bill was strikingly
long. I saw no markings in the brown tail, but the lighting and viewing
angle were not great to see the tail, so I moved left to get a better view.
I was able to study the tail only a few seconds more from the better
angle, still seeing no terminal or marginal gray or white, before the bird
flew north toward the Palo Alto dump. As it flew over, I could see the
bright yellow underside, and again, no tail markings. It was last seen
over the dump, still flying north. I spent some time trying to refind it
at the baylands and sewage treatment plant, with no luck.
Much as I would like to have had more time to study this bird, I think
the very long bill and lack of tail markings eliminate Western and Cassin's
Kingbirds. I guess I can't rule out Couch's Kingbird completely, but I
think Tropical Kingbird is far more likely.
- Dick
Richard Stovel Department of Genetics
Stanford University Stanford, CA 94305
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From email@hidden Sun Oct 05 19:24:21 1997
Subject: CCRS on Sunday
I had a Vesper Sparrow in the grass by the pond. The Sharp-tailed Sandpiper
is still present in the general area.
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From email@hidden Sun Oct 05 20:03:49 1997
Subject: Sierra Road Summit
Friday morning I birded the Sierra Rd Summit. I failed to find large numbers
of Horned Larks (15-20) or pipits (4-5 flyovers), crushing my hopes for
longspurs and Red-throated Pipit. I did find 5 Rock Wrens, 45 Lark Sparrows,
and a Burrowing Owl.
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From email@hidden Sun Oct 05 20:30:08 1997
Subject: Re: CCRS on Sunday
Today I checked Charleston Slough with my son, Jeff. There were
marvelous concentrations of piscivores in the slough including the 12
Black Skimmers (one immature) at the 2nd bench. The put on a great
show.
On the way back somebody let their dogs run loose in the flood control
basin which put up all the ducks and shorebirds. A roar of wings and
we could feel the wind from the birds taking off out of Adobe Creek.
I didn't know dogs were allowed off leach there. It caused quite a
commotion.
Then we went to the CCRS waterbird pond where we enjoyed the juvenile
Sharp-tailed Sandpiper and juvenile female Ruff (Thanks Nick). I was
unable to find the other Ruff or the Semipalmated Sandpipers and Jeff
was getting hungry.
A good day in the south bay.
--
Joseph Morlan 380 Talbot Ave. #206
email@hidden Pacifica, CA 94044-2639
email@hidden 650-359-2068
1997 Fall Birding Classes:
http://www.ccsf.cc.ca.us/Continuing_Education/index.html#orni
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From email@hidden Sun Oct 05 21:31:40 1997
Subject: Vesper Sparrow at CCRS
Birders:
We banded a Vesper Sparrow in the new Revegetation area this morning at 7
am or so. It was released at the trailers after photographs were taken. It
would be interesting to see if this is the same bird that Nick saw. The
banded bird was an immature (Hatch Year) based on its incomplete skull
ossification. This is the first Vesper Sparrow we have caught,
unfortunately I can't check from here if Vesper Sparrow is new for the CCRS
list. In addition, while conducting point counts later on in the morning I
saw a Grasshopper Sparrow in the overflow channel. Not a bad day for
sparrows.
Al.
Alvaro Jaramillo
Half Moon Bay,
California
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Helm guide to the New World Blackbirds, Birding in Chile and more, at:
http://www.sirius.com/~alvaro
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From email@hidden Mon Oct 06 06:20:49 1997
Subject: weekend
In the company of several of our gang, I saw my life SHARP-TAILED
SANDPIPER at CCRS Saturday morning about 11. This bird was with several
PECTORAL SANDPIPERS and it was instructive to be able to compare the much
brighter chestnut color of the cap, and substantially more distinct
supercilium on the ST. This because the Pecs had some chestnut, and a
definite supercilium that you could call white if you saw it by itself.
I'll be ever cautious on making an i.d. of ST without comparison. The bill
length difference was also useful in the brief time the bird had its bill
visible - most of the time it was tucked, asleep.
Also saw a SEMIPALMATED SANDPIPER ided by Steve Rottenborn. This juvenile
had a more sharp-pointed bill than is normal with semipals, according to
Steve, and hence raised thoughts of a Red-necked Stint.
I got a good view of one of the two juvenile RUFFS that were seen at the
pond.
Went to the Coleman Ave percolation ponds in the evening, but saw no
swifts at all from the corner of Coleman and Meander between about 5;45
and 6:30. Drove around some and still didn't see any.
Sunday walked out Charleston Slough (beautiful day) and saw six adult
BLACK SKIMMERS at the usual spot opposite the bench. Heard reports of Sora
seen in Adobe Creek but when I checked the spot saw only an immature
Common Moorhen.
-- Tom Grey Stanford CA email@hidden
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From email@hidden Mon Oct 06 08:38:50 1997
Subject: Diablo Range birds
Amy and I spent Sunday 10/6, at Henry Coe State Park, mostly in the
Redfern and Selacci additions. Two birds were of interest as both are
rare in the park. The first was a WINTER WREN seen in the Vasquez Creek
drainage. The bird was in an area of permanent water in the mostly dry
creekbed. This is the fourth park record we have for winter wren.
Late in the afternoon, I noticed some fresh droppings on a ranch road
northeast of Wilson Peak. Looking up into the overhead trees produced
an adult SAW-WHET OWL. The bird was perched about twenty feet overhead
and was quite cooperative, staying put the entire time we spent
observing it. This bird is the first saw-whet we have recorded at Coe.
James Yurchenco
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From email@hidden Mon Oct 06 09:04:20 1997
Subject: CCRS
All,
As many have probably heard, there were some quality birds at CCRS for
the annual meeting on Saturday 10/4/97. Highlights from the waterbird
pond included a juvenile SHARP-TAILED SANDPIPER among 37 PECTORAL
SANDPIPERS, 2 juvenile female RUFFS, and 2 SEMIPALMATED SANDPIPERS
(these last two being reported by Steve Rottenborn and Scott Terrill).
Birds near the trailers included 2 COOPER'S HAWKS, 1 adult GOLDEN
EAGLE, a roosting GREAT HORNED OWL in the Mewaldt Oak, a RED-BREASTED
SAPSUCKER, 5 "WESTERN" FLYCATCHERS, 2 SAY'S PHOEBES, 1 unbanded
ASH-THROATED FLYCATCHER, 15 VIOLET-GREEN SWALLOWS, 3 BARN SWALLOWS,
1 HOUSE WREN, 2 RUBY-CROWNED KINGLETS, 8 ORANGE-CROWNED WARBLERS,
13 YELLOW WARBLERS, 2 BLACK-THROATED GRAY WARBLERS, a banded
MACGILLIVRAY'S WARBLER (Mike Mammoser and Mark Miller), 1 WILSON'S
WARBLER, and a SPOTTED TOWHEE....there may have been others - this was
all I heard about.
On Sunday 10/5/97 I had an immature PEREGRINE FALCON over Shoreline and
Montecito in Mountain View.
Mike Rogers
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From email@hidden Mon Oct 06 12:49:41 1997
Subject: CCRS pond, 10/6/97
All,
This morning at the CCRS pond two other birder's and I saw the juvenile
Sharp-tailed Sandpiper and the Ruff on the island with the poles on it. They
were resting among Pectoral Sandpipers and out of the wind behind
"pickleweed". Both birds were later lost from view shortly after a Peregrine
Falcon attacked other birds in the pond.
The other couple (driving a gold colored Mercedes), sorry I don't remember
the name, said that they had seen a Rough-legged Hawk fly East over the CCRS
road and their car as they were driving to the pond. I had previously seen a
smallish, dark looking Buteo perched on the fence South-West of the pond,
facing away from me, which did not have a red tail but which I did not see
fly.
Take care,
Bob Reiling, 1:40 PM, 10/6/97
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From email@hidden Tue Oct 07 11:08:25 1997
Subject: FW: 12 Black Skimmers
All:
Forwarding the note below I tried sending yesterday afternoon to
South-Bay-Birds that didn't seem to go anywhere.
Mike Feighner, Livermore, CA, email@hidden, 10/7/97, 12:02 PM
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From: Feighner, Mike
Sent: Monday, October 6, 1997 2:51 PM
To: 'South Bay Birders'
Subject: 12 Black Skimmers
All:
After having viewed the two Ruffs and the Sharp-tailed Sandpiper at the
CCRS Saturday afternoon, I continued on to Charleston Slough where I
tallied the total of Black Skimmers to be now 12. I had my camera along
in my backpack, but did not remove the camera from the backpack to take
any pictures since the skimmers were in my opinion not close enough to
shore for a good shot.
>From here I continued on to the Palo Alto Flood Control Basin where the
only bird of significance was a Merlin that flew to the east toward
Charleston Slough
***************************************************************
Reminder ***** Alert ****** Warning
While I was birding from 45 minutes to one hour at the PA Flood Control
Basin, my car was broken into in the small parking lot there, and my
Minolta X-700 camera and Vivitar 100-500 zoom lens were stolen. When I
had arrived, mine was the only car; when I returned there were 4 other
cars in the lot. My camera was hidden in my older backpack on the floor
behind the driver's seat as often the case has been on birding trips.
The thief was quite a clever guy. I didn't notice anything until my
arrival back home in Livermore when I noticed the passenger door would
not unlock and that the backpack was now empty. A police report has
been filed with the Mountain View Police Department, and hopefully the
loss will be nearly totally covered by my insurance. I was always under
the impression that it was a good idea to conceal your values. My
advice: take them with you! I understand that there have been other
break-ins at the PA Baylands. Let's keep together and keep are eyes
open and report any suspicious activity.
This totally ruined my birding week-end. Fortunately, the film in the
camera was not exposed. The camera and lens are replaceable; exposed
film is not. Someday, maybe I can laugh about this week-end of all
week-ends.
Mike Feighner, Livermore, CA, email@hidden, 10/6/97, 2:46 PM
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From email@hidden Tue Oct 07 12:36:59 1997
Subject: CCRS this morning
This morning I went on my first banding lesson at CCRS and struck lucky with
two county birds - Common Poorwill and Hammond's Flycatcher. Poorwill is a
great bird in the hand.
There has been a large arrival of Herring Gulls on to the shorebird pond.
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From email@hidden Tue Oct 07 12:49:56 1997
Subject: Sabine's Gull
All:
Several others noted the good birds seen on Saturday (4 Oct.) at CCRS,
but I wanted to comment on the SEMIPALMATED SANDPIPERS (one of which
I picked out, the other being spotted by Scott Terrill). Both were
juveniles, and unlike most of the juvenile Western Sandpipers, which
showed at least some basic feathering, neither had any basic
feathering on the upperparts yet. Both were rather dull on the
upperparts. One had a very unusual bill in that it was obviously
tapered all the way to the tip. The bills of most Semipalms are
expanded slightly near the tip; this can often be difficult to see,
but I didn't realize until I saw Saturday's unusual bird just how
strange a Semipalm lacking this expansion would look. Try as we
might, we couldn't turn this bird into a Red-necked or Little
Stint, as other plumage and structural characters were all typical
of Semipalmated Sandpiper.
Monday (6 October), an adult THAYER'S GULL was in the ever-growing
flock of gulls on the flats across the railroad tracks from the
Alviso marina.
Today (7 October), six CATTLE EGRETS were at Arzino Ranch. At about
4:15 p.m., I was checking the flock of gulls on the flats near the
Alviso Marina from the intersection of Gold St. and Elizabeth St.
when I saw (out of the corner of my eye) a strange gull fly into the
small slough that runs through the marsh just north of this
intersection. Several minutes of looking failed to turn up the
bird, but just before I was about to give up a first-winter SABINE'S
GULL swam around the bend in the slough. Over the next 30 minutes
I watched it on and off as it foraged along the edge of the marsh.
On several occasions it made short flights along the slough, and
once it flew out over the flats to the north, but it always returned
to the slough, where its only company consisted of egrets and
Pied-billed Grebes. I got a few photos of the bird in flight, and
I was able to show the bird to Penelope Delevoryas.
The Sabine's Gull was a small gull, smaller and more slender than a
Ring-billed Gull but slightly larger than a Bonaparte's. Its solid
black bill was moderately short and very slender. The underparts were
solid white from the chin to the undertail coverts; this white extended
up onto the foreface and forehead, and on the lower face a white wedge
wrapped up behind the dark auriculars. Most of the auriculars, the crown,
and the hindneck were a dark sooty-brown, this dark feathering wrapping
around the sides of the neck almost onto the foreneck and extending
onto the sides of the breast as well. The feathers of the back and
upperwings were overall a dark sooty color similar to that of the
head and hindneck, being darker and less brownish (more gray) than on
most of the first-winter Sabine's Gulls I see offshore but being
similar to the first-winter individual that was present nearby at the
Alviso salt ponds a few years ago. The back feathers and upperwing
coverts had blackish subterminal marks and paler buff edging, but
these markings did not contrast very strongly with the dark sooty-
brownish interiors of these feathers. The primaries appeared black on
the folded wing. When the bird flew, the strongly contrasting wing
pattern was striking. The outer 5 or so primaries and their associated
primary coverts were solid black, and the marginal and lesser secondary
coverts and most of the inner median and greater secondary coverts were
sooty-brown, these dark areas contrasting with pure white inner primaries,
secondaries, and some inner primary coverts and outer secondary coverts.
The overall effect was of a near white triangle on the otherwise dark
wing. The shallowly forked tail had a narrow black subterminal band, but
the rump, uppertail coverts, and most of the tail were pure white. The
underwing was mostly white.
Perhaps these winds were responsible for bringing this Sabine's Gull
inland. If so, then the Alviso salt ponds, Sunnyvale Ponds, or Palo
Alto duck pond could have something good!
Steve Rottenborn
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Subject: birds
On Saturday, 4 Oct 97, I went to CCRS first thing in the morning, where I fo=
und
Mike Rogers with the SHARP-TAILED SANDPIPER already staked out. He also poi=
nted
out a juvenile female RUFF that was in with the dowitchers. Later, I would =
see
two juvenile female RUFFS here, as well as the two SEMIPALMATED SANDPIPERS =
that
Steve and Scott found. As Mike indicated in his post, there were about 35
PECTORAL SANDPIPERS here.
At the trailers, I joined Steve and Mike and Mark Miller, among others, on =
walk
along the creek. An ASH-THROATED FLYCATCHER was on the wire across the over=
flow
channel right at the trailers. Among the migrants along the creek were a co=
uple
of BLACK-THROATED GRAY WARBLERS and a HOUSE WREN. Further south, Mark Mille=
r and
I continued birding alone, looking for sparrows in the overflow channel. Ne=
ar
the southernmost nets we had an immature male or female MACGILLIVRAY'S WARB=
LER
that was banded on the left leg. Assuming that this bird was one that was
recently banded at the station, it would indicate that it had been hanging
around for at least 4 days. =
On Sunday, 5 Oct 97, I started out at the Guadalupe River, searching the
overflow channel for sparrows. There were lots of LINCOLN'S SPARROWS about,=
but
no unusual migrants. At the lone eucalyptus just south of Montague I had 3
ORANGE-CROWNED WARBLERS, a YELLOW WARBLER, a male BLACK-THROATED GRAY WARBL=
ER, a
WARBLING VIREO, and a fem/imm SELASPHORUS HUMMINGBIRD that had a spot of
irridescent orange on the throat.
I went to the Sunnyvale Sewage Ponds, where I found the fennel patch to be =
quite
dead. The channel north of the old landfill had both SORAS and VIRGINIA RAI=
LS
calling. An immature PEREGRINE FALCON was on one of the power towers. =
Crittenden Marsh was absolutely empty as I walked the bordering levees, so =
I
checked the overflow parking lot for Shoreline and found 7 HORNED LARKS. A =
check
of the grassy area just north of the parking lot produced a SAY'S PHOEBE.
On Monday, 6 Oct 97, I took a walk along Coyote Creek, just south of Hellye=
r, at
lunch. I found a SAY'S PHOEBE working a grassy field and an ORANGE-CROWNED
WARBLER in the riparian. =
On Tuesday, 7 Oct 97, a walk along the creek at lunch produced a small floc=
k of
LARK SPARROWS.
Mike Mammoser
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From email@hidden Tue Oct 07 14:55:00 1997
Subject: Green Tailed Towhee
I wish to report the presence, beginning Oct. 5, of a green tailed towhee
in my backyard. The bird was also observed by fellow birders, one of whom
was Mike Feigher, who observed it the afternoon of Oct. 7. I have kept a
backyard birder's dairy for many years now and wish to share my excitement
with others. The field marks were very clear--russet top of head, white
throat and mustache, muted olive green coloring. My previous experience in
seeing this bird was in Klamath Falls, OR on the Link River Trail.
Barbara Harkleroad
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From email@hidden Tue Oct 07 15:24:43 1997
Subject: Green-tailed Towhee
All:
As you may have already heard, Barbara Hackelroad reported to the
Northern California Bird Box, and most recently to South-Bay-Birds, that
a Green-tailed Towhee has been in her yard in the hills above the
Alamden Valley since 10/5/97. This morning I called Barbara and made
it out to her place by 2:00 PM. There were plenty of White-crowned and
Golden-crowned Sparrows, two Spotted Towhees, and one California Towhee,
one Mourning Dove, and a couple of House Sparrows, and 2-3 Anna's
Hummingbirds.
The Green-tailed Towhee did not show up until 3:05 PM at which time I
viewed the bird for 5 minutes before I had to return to work. The bird
seemed to be aggressive toward the other birds feeding on the ground.
The first striking featured was bird bird's rufous crown. Noticeable
was the snow-white throat with black malar stripes, dark gray body with
a greenish tinge to both the tail and the wings.
Special takes to for Barbara and Glenn Hackelroad for their hospitality.
Mike Feighner, Livermore, CA, email@hidden, 10/7/97, 4:19 PM
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From email@hidden Tue Oct 07 20:32:13 1997
Subject: more on CCRS today.
Birders:
Just a short note to let you know that the Juvenile Hammond's Flycatcher
we banded today was carefully measured and photographed. It was a perfect
Hammond's except that primary 6 was not emarginate, this is very odd. It is
the latest Hammond's Flycatcher we have ever banded, out of 15 or so. The
Poorwill was great in the hand, as Nick mentioned. it was a male, and
perhaps an immature due to some considerations of moult and primary wear.
All of the 6 or so Poorwills we have banded have been in late September or
October.
Regards,
Al.
Alvaro Jaramillo
Half Moon Bay,
California
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From email@hidden Tue Oct 07 23:37:52 1997
Subject: Re: Sabine's Gull
All:
Al Jaramillo has pointed out that young Sabine's Gulls don't
undergo their postjuvenal molt until after they arrive on the
wintering grounds, so the Alviso bird is still in juvenal
plumage. My reference to it as a "first-winter" bird was
incorrect.
Steve Rottenborn
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Subject: GTTO,SAGU
All,
Yesterday evening I enjoyed seeing Barbara Harkleroad's GREEN-TAILED
TOWHEE in Almaden. Then, since I was in the area, I checked the
swift/swallow flock at the Coleman Road Ponds. I followed the flock
of 110+ VIOLET-GREEN SWALLOWS (could have been up to twice this many,
as the birds foraged over a wide area) and 30 VAUX'S SWIFTS for
about an hour until 6:45pm, but didn't find a roost site. Also had
a single CEDAR WAXWING fly over in this area.
This morning I checked on Steve's SABINE'S GULL, which was still in
the slough at the north end of Gold Street in Alviso. The bird spends
its time foraging right near the banks of the slough and can be very
hard to find when hidden in the many inlets. It flew once to cross
the channel, but otherwise was inconspicuous. A stream of 32
VIOLET-GREEN SWALLOWS headed east while I was watching the gull.
Mike Rogers
10/7/97 and 10/8/97
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From email@hidden Wed Oct 08 09:18:42 1997
Subject: Palm Warbler at Emily Renzel Marsh
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From email@hidden Wed Oct 08 09:23:00 1997
Subject: Alviso Sabine's Gull
All:
The juvenile Sabine's Gull that Steve Rottenborn had discovered late
yesterday and that Mike Rogers had reported about an hour ago was still
present in the slough off the north end of Gold Street in Alviso some 8
minutes from where I work. When I first arrived, there were only 4
Gulls in the slough, and no Sabine's Gull. So, I headed up along the
railroad tracks to the north for a while and then returned back toward
the slough when out of the blue the juvenile Sabine's Gull flew in from
the east over the pickleweed field with its very conspicuous wing
pattern and landed in the slough. The gull associated with no other
birds while is swam around the slough and at no time did it poke at the
water's surface as I have experienced in the past with this specie.
This small juvenile bird has a much dirty appearance on its crown, nape,
and back. Also noticeable was the black tail tip. ...in all a very
nice birthday present....the day is not over...what's next?
How many Sabine's Gulls have shown up in Santa Clara County? I know of
4 so far including this one.
Mike Feighner, Livermore, CA, email@hidden, 10/8/97, 10:15 AM
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From email@hidden Wed Oct 08 10:35:55 1997
Subject: Re: Sabine's Gull
The young Sabine's Gull was in its reported location (the slough on
the north side of Elizabeth St. in Alviso) as of 10:05 AM today, and over much
of the next 25 minutes I followed it in my scope as it swam in the slough,
generally hugging the edges and picking food off the vegetation. It finally
moved out of sight up the channel, getting there by taking a short flight (the
first while I was there) around a corner that obstructed further viewing. It
was sometimes as close as 35 or 40 yards.
I was a bit puzzled by the plumage while I was watching it, since the NGS
guide (my only available reference) shows only juvenal and adult plumages, and
states that the moult to first-winter doesn't occur until the birds have left.
On returning to work, I found Steve's EMail note:
> Al Jaramillo has pointed out that young Sabine's Gulls don't
> undergo their postjuvenal molt until after they arrive on the
> wintering grounds, so the Alviso bird is still in juvenal
> plumage. My reference to it as a "first-winter" bird was
> incorrect.
However, while the bird appeared to largely correspond to the juvenal plumage
illustrated, it did not entirely. A part of the mantle and perhaps a few
scapulars and other feathers were paler gray, not the dark brown-gray of most
of the upperparts and the rear part of the head. Also, the nape was generally
paler. So, is the NGS illustration incorrect, or have I misinterpreted it,
or is this bird in fact in moult? (My other references are home, so I can't
check them yet.)
Al Eisner
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From email@hidden Wed Oct 08 12:23:00 1997
Subject: Black & Elegant Terns at Alviso
On my second attempt to see the Sabine's Gull this morning (I was successful
and I agree it is in fact molting into first-winter plumage with obvious
gray in the mantle), I noticed a large feeding frenzy of Forster's Terns in
the distance over the second salt pond N. of the marina. Joined by Bob
Reiling, I walked out to take a closer look. There were probably about 250
or more Forster's Terns and we were able to find single Elegant and Black
Terns. Despite over an hour's looking, I could not find a Common Tern.
_____________________________________________________________
Nick Lethaby Pronghorn Consulting
email@hidden 1112 N. Abbott Avenue
Tel: (408) 941 0223 Milpitas, CA 95035
U.S.A.
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From email@hidden Wed Oct 08 13:23:38 1997
Subject: Re: Green-tailed Towhee
Where exacly is this bird and do we need to contact this lady to see it?
_____________________________________________________________
Nick Lethaby Pronghorn Consulting
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Tel: (408) 941 0223 Milpitas, CA 95035
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From email@hidden Wed Oct 08 13:34:48 1997
Subject: SAGU
Yesterday, after work, I went to Alviso and saw the juvenile SABINE'S GULL a=
t
the end of Gold Street. Like Al and Nick, I saw the first-winter plumage on=
the
mantle of this bird.
Today, 8 Oct 97, I spent some time at lunch looking for the Green-tailed To=
whee
at the Harkleroad's. I didn't have any luck seeing it and I hope that it is=
still in the area. On the way back to work I had a WHITE-THROATED SWIFT at =
the
hwy 101 crossover of Bernal.
Mike Mammoser
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From email@hidden Thu Oct 09 08:09:06 1997
Subject: Shoreline Lake
All,
Hoping for storm-driven rarities I checked Shoreline Lake early
this morning 10/9/97. Present were 4 SURF SCOTERS (1 male, 3 fem)
and the male GREATER SCAUP with the injured right wing.
The water level in nearby Charleston Slough is quite low (construction
related presumably) and there are thousands of shorebirds feeding
on the exposed mud, including 16+ DUNLIN and hundreds of BLACK-BELLIED
PLOVERS. All 14 BLACK SKIMMERS were roosting in the slough as well.
17 VIOLET-GREEN SWALLOWS were foraging over the Forebay.
Mike Rogers
10/9/97
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From email@hidden Thu Oct 09 08:59:09 1997
Subject: Sabine's Gull still around
All:
As of 9:28 this morning the Sabine's Gull (Say-bines or Sabbinns?) was
still present in Alviso. It flew in from the north along the railroad
track and then over the pickleweed field and landed in the slough there
at the north end of Gold Street in Alviso.
Mike Feighner, Livermore, CA, email@hidden, 10/9/97, 9:53 AM
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From email@hidden Thu Oct 09 11:57:22 1997
Subject: Bay Area Calendar Oct.11-17
Larry Tunstall has updated the Bay Area Calendar for October 11-17 for SBBU.
Kendric
South Bay Birders Unlimited (SBBU)
http://www-leland.stanford.edu/~kendric/birds/
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From email@hidden Thu Oct 09 13:52:06 1997
Subject: Rufous-crowned Sparrow at CCRS
Al Jaramillo suggested I post this becuase it's seems to be an unusual
record.The morning of October 8, I saw a Rufous-crowned Sparrow in the
overflow channel E of Coyote Creek just N of 237. It was about 300 yards N
of the new bridge they are building.
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Nick Lethaby Pronghorn Consulting
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Tel: (408) 941 0223 Milpitas, CA 95035
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From email@hidden Fri Oct 10 07:32:46 1997
Subject: Tropical Kingbird, Sabine's Gull
All:
Thursday at about 4:30 Maria and I looked for the Sabine's Gull at the end
of Gold Street in Alviso. Calvin Lu, also there, found it. It flew
over the tracks into the pond on the other side, and was easily viewed
from the east side of the marina parking lot (looking south). It flew
around, actively, and settled on the pond frequently. It stayed
there for most of an hour. It seemed a little agitated.
While there, Maria discovered a Tropical Kingbird, perching and flying
immediately to the north, east, and south of the east side of the marina
parking lot. Entirely yellow underparts, becoming a bit greenish on the
upper chest. Brown tail, with no white on the sides or tip. Slight
notch in tail. Big long bill. A bit greenish on the upper back, and
fairly heavy white striping on the lower back/wing areas when perched.
A Say's Phoebe was nearby. There were no terns on the second pond north.
Yours, John Meyer
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From email@hidden Fri Oct 10 09:02:05 1997
Subject: Tropical Kingbird still at Alviso
I refound the Tropical Kingbird at 9.55 am at the corner of Spreckles and
Grand in Alviso.
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From email@hidden Fri Oct 10 10:14:52 1997
Subject: Rufous Morph Red-tailed Hawk?
All,
This morning at the entrance to Arastradero OSP I saw an adult RTHA (with a
nice red tail) with a rufous chest and belly. No hint of a belly band. The
bird looked much like the lower right illustration of the Western Red-tailed
Hawk in Peterson's Hawks field guide except that the breast and belly were
darker red and the tail was solid red (as is shown on the illustration of the
Eastern RTHA. I did not see the undertail coverts.
The bird did not have a dark lower belly as is shown for the rufous morph in
Peterson's Western Birds field guide. From the back the bird looked like a
typical adult. Comments?
Bob Reiling, 11:06 AM, 10/10/97
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From email@hidden Fri Oct 10 10:50:14 1997
Subject: FW: Sabine's Gull and Tropical Kingbird.
South-Bay-Birders:
Passing on to South-Bay-Birds the following note for Calvin Lou.
Mike Feighner
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From: Supervising Lab Tech
Sent: Friday, October 10, 1997 9:37 AM
To: email@hidden
Subject: Sabine's Gull and Tropical Kingbird.
Mike,
Could you post this for me ? Thanks
Yesterday (10-9-97) while birding with Carol (I believe) and John
Meyers,
we refound the Sabine's Gull. THe gull was in the pond just south
of the Marina's parking lot near the railroad tracks.
Carol found a Tropical KIngbird. This bird was first spotted at Gold St.
We later saw the bird in the weeds along the beginning of the Alviso
Sl. Trail. It later flew toward the Bayside Canning Co building (445
PM).
Calvin Lou
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From email@hidden Fri Oct 10 12:10:36 1997
Subject: Alviso Tropical Kingbird
All:
At noon today, I birded the Spreckles and Grand area in Alviso where I
ran into Mark Miller and Chris Solander at Spreckles and State Streets.
Mark and I headed back to Spreckles and Grand where Mark spotted the
Tropical Kingbird perched on the TV-Antenna on the white house at the
corner of Spreckles and Grand. The kingbird flew up to the nearby
eucalyptus tree and returned to its perch on the antenna. After about 5
minutes it flew over to the fence along the south side of Grand Blvd.
and then continued a very high flight to the eucalyptus trees near the
end of Disk Drive.
The kingbird's belly was yellow, and the bird had white chin, dark eye
patches, slightly notched tail, no white outer tail feathers, and was
calling while I was there...maybe Mark can better describe the call than
I can... Also, there was some small black blotching on the breast, but
that may have been wetness from the rain.
Later, Rich Cimino of Pleasanton, and Chris Solander (who had just seen
the Sabine's Gull at the end of Gold Street), and Mike Mammoser arrived
at which time they continued there search in the trees near Disk Drive.
Before I left there were at least 4 Cattle Egrets at the Arzino Ranch
when it started raining again.
Mike Feighner, Livermore, CA, email@hidden
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From email@hidden Fri Oct 10 12:33:47 1997
Subject: TRKI,SAGU
All,
Thanks to Nick Lethaby's quick e-mail, Scott Terrill and I enjoyed
(and photographed) the TROPICAL KINGBIRD from 10:45 to 11:10am near
the junction of Spreckles and Grand in Alviso today 10/10/97. You
can even see the red crown on this bird!, perhaps because it was
a little bedraggled from the rain. This combine with worn tertials
and greater coverts suggest an adult I believe. Great find Maria
andf thanks for the timely e-mail Nick! Also here were 5 LESSER
YELLOWLEGS, 4 CATTLE EGRETS, and single VIOLET-GREEN SWALLOW and
YELLOW WARBLERS. The SABINE'S GULL was still just south of the
Alviso Marina.
Mike Rogers
10/10/97
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From email@hidden Fri Oct 10 14:31:53 1997
Subject: Alviso
I made a (late) lunchtime visit to Alviso to look for the Tropical
Kingbird, concentrating around the Arzino Ranch, based upon Nick's message
this morning. No luck, however. (I did check Disk Drive briefly, but got
rained out of that area.) One bird worth noting: an American Bittern
in the stretch of Mallard Slough along the EEC entrance road.
Al
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From email@hidden Fri Oct 10 15:41:28 1997
Subject: Tropical Kingbird info
A friend of mine is coming down tonight from Point Reyes in the hopes of seeing
the Tropical Kingbird and the Sharp-Tailed Sandpiper.
The latest word on these birds would be greatly appreciated.
Thanks in advances,
Vivek Tiwari
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From email@hidden Sat Oct 11 19:11:54 1997
Subject: CCRS
I saw a Macgillivray's Warbler this morning in the overflow well to the
south of the station. Lots of zonos here too.
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From email@hidden Sun Oct 12 10:39:48 1997
Subject: Lesser Black-backed Gull at Alviso, Santa Clara County, California
Lesser Black-backed Gull
Alviso Marina, Santa Clara County, California
October 12, 1997
Joe Morlan
This morning, Mike Mammoser reported that he had found the Lesser
Black-backed Gull returning to the roosting area just east of the
parking lot for the Alviso Marina where it had been seen in past
years and a more detailed message was left by Donna Heim.
I decided to try for the bird in the afternoon, but when I
arrived several birders were just getting ready to leave. The
word was that the gull was not present. The juvenile Sabine's
Gull was supposedly still around but had just flown off to the
west. I decided to look for the Lesser Black-backed Gull anyway
and then try the Coyote Creek Riparian Station and the Coyote
Creek Lagoons (Fremont) where the bird had been seen in previous
years. Jennifer Matkin and Bert McKee joined me. We scanned the
flock of California Gulls roosting on the bare mudflat east of
the railroad tracks without success, just as I had done several
times before when the bird was present off and on during the last
two winters.
Then Mike Mammoser arrived and located the Lesser Black-backed
Gull standing with a large group of California Gulls on the far
backside of the flock where we had overlooked it. Soon we had
scopes trained on the bird, but it quickly sat down and tucked
its bill into its back feathers making it difficult to pick out.
We spent the next two hours or so, looking at the bird hoping it
might fly around or do something more interesting than just yawn.
It stood and preened on one occasion, but spent most of its time
sleeping and part of the time it was completely hidden from view
as it slept behind a standing Herring Gull.
Viewing was mostly through my KOWA-TSN4 and Jennifer's B&L Elite
spotting scope. Although the bird was rather distant, I took
some notes while watching the bird. The following description is
based on those notes:
An adult gull, intermediate in size between adjacent
California and Herring gulls. The mantle was darker than
the adult California Gulls and judged to be approximately
the same as the mantle of nearby Western Gull of the
northern race (L. o. occidentalis). This was in bright
direct afternoon sunlight. The mantle color changed
somewhat depending on the bird's angle to us. When it
turned slightly, the mantle appeared slightly darker than
the Western Gull. In some lights, a faint brownish tinge
was barely visible on the greater coverts. We judged
this to be caused by wear as this bird is definitely a
full adult, having been in adult plumage when first found
in October 1995 by Nick Lethaby.
The bill was rather petite, smaller than adjacent
California Gull or Herring Gull. The culmen curved
down gently from the midpoint instead of arching abruptly
near the tip as in the California Gulls. The lower
mandible had no obvious projection at the gonys, but it
did show an elliptical red gonydeal spot, much larger and
more elongated than on other gulls. Otherwise the bill
was yellow. The legs were also bright yellow. In bright
sunlight, the legs were much brighter yellow than on any
California Gull and when the bird was standing, the leg
color was the feature that was most striking when trying to
pick the bird out of the flock.
The body was white, the head showing gray smudging on the
face around the eye. This smudging was much less evident
than the head markings on the California Gulls, and from
a distance the bird looked comparatively white-headed.
Because of distance it was hard to see the eye-color, but
it seemed light-eyed compared to the California Gulls.
The head was an interesting shape. The forehead and
crown were relatively flat and then angled sharply
downward at the nape, giving the head a very angular
appearance.
The bird showed very long primary projection which we
judged to be an artifact of molt. I feel that the bird
was in heavy primary molt, with the secondaries not
visible on the folded wing. The primaries were mostly
black with about five visible feathers showing only
extremely narrow whitish tips which we judged to be worn
summer feathers. One outer primary seemed to be growing
in at an angle and sometimes drooped down under the rest
of the primaries. That feather was black with
conspicuous extensive white to the entire tip of the
feather. I felt this was a new primary recently molted
in.
The primaries feathers extended past a clump of greater
coverts which were brownish gray with whitish tips. These
coverts were blowing around in the wind at times. Just
beyond the coverts was another white tipped feather with
a black base which I judged to be a newly grown
secondary. When the bird preened, it could be seen that
the primary feathers had extensive pale grayish-white
tongues concealed on the inner webs which did not extend
all the way to the tips of the feathers. These tongues
were not visible on the folded wing when the bird was at
rest. No mirrors were detected. We attributed this to
wear or molt or both.
The net effect was of a bird with much longer primary
projection and lacking the conspicuous white tips of the
freshly molted California Gull primaries. The long
primary projection was probably an artifact of short or
missing secondaries.
Small white tertial spots were visible along the edge of
the scapulars about half way down the back. The tail and
the rest of the body were white. The tip of the tail
seemed worn.
DISCUSSION
This is the second Lesser Black-backed Gull I have seen in
California, the first being one wintering at Doheney State Beach
on 25 January, 1995. There are now about nine accepted records
of this species for California, all apparently of the British
race (L. fuscus graellsii) which has a paler mantle than the
other races. Post & Lewis (Birding 27:283-290, Birding
27:371-381) made a convincing case that the darker race L. f.
intermedius also occurs occasionally in eastern North America.
Binford (Western Birds 9:141-150, 1978) included a comprehensive
summary of features distinguishing L. f. graellsii from every
other known species and subspecies including a host of similar
birds from eastern Asia. However, recent taxonomic instability
has resulted in some authorities splitting the Siberian Gull (L.
heuglini) from other similar gulls. Nominate L. h. heuglini is
most similar to Lesser Black-backed Gull and in fact, is treated
as a race of same on pg. 611 of volume 3 of "Handbook of Birds of
the World (1996)." The plate opposite pg. 607 portrays heuglini
as disconcertingly similar to L. f. graellsii.
The Macmillan "Birder's Guide to European and Middle Eastern
Birds (1996)" by Harris Shirihai and Christie recognizes Siberian
Gull as including nominate heuglini as well as taimyrensis and
vegae. The latter is treated as a dark mantled race of the
Herring Gull by the AOU. Of the three races of Siberian Gull,
only nominate heuglini is likely to be confused with Lesser
Black-backed Gull. The others have a much paler mantle and
usually pinker legs and feet.
Like Lesser Black-backed, Siberian Gull apparently has a late and
protracted prebasic molt. The text in the above guide suggests
that the main difference is larger size and heavier bill compared
to Lesser Black-backed, but these characters may be sex dependent
with females smaller than males. Shirihai further discusses
identification of heuglini on pg 260 of "The Bird of Israel
(1996)." He says that nominate heuglini is the largest in the
complex, having "heavier build with distinctive larger and
powerful bill with prominent gonydeal angle and proportionately
longer legs..." However the photograph included on plate 54 does
not look much bigger billed than a Lesser Black-backed and the
mantle color is consistent with graellsii or intermedius. The
photo of an adult in winter shows a dark band on the tip of the
bill and reduced red on the mandible recalling California Gull.
However, it is unclear of this is a consistent difference.
In summary, I am convinced that our bird is a Lesser Black-backed
because of its size (intermediate between California and
Herring), relatively dark mantle color, extensive oblong red spot
on the mandible, small bill size, and bright yellow legs.
Nevertheless I would like to learn more about field distinction
between L. h. heuglini and L. f. graellsii.
I would like to thank Mike Mammoser for finding the bird for us and
Bert McKee for needed note paper and pen. Bert also photographed the
bird, although I doubt it will be identifiable from the distance.
--
Joseph Morlan 380 Talbot Ave. #206
email@hidden Pacifica, CA 94044-2639
email@hidden 650-359-2068
1997 Fall Birding Classes:
http://www.ccsf.cc.ca.us/Continuing_Education/index.html#orni
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From email@hidden Mon Oct 13 08:10:00 1997
Subject: Golden Eagles
epHi All,
On Sat, Oct 11, a visit to Hawk Hill included one BROADWING, several
MERLINS & PEREGRINES along with the other usuals. On the drive home an
adult GOLDEN EAGLE was just south of the dish along I280 in Palo Alto.
This morning, Oct 13, my wife KC had an immature GOLDEN EAGLE hunting
jack rabbits in the fields at Garcia & Ampitheater Pkwy in Mt. View. It
made a number of misses in one field before switching fields and finally
making a kill.
Regards, Nick Yatsko
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From email@hidden Mon Oct 13 13:11:30 1997
Subject: Re: Shoreline Area Construction
All:
Anyone know the details of the Charleston Slough/Shoreline
area construction? We have a uniquely rich variety of habitats there so
why do anything? If someone is trying to reclaim the whole area for
marsh grass and pickleweed,(which is the rumor I've heard) we could
actually end up with fewer birds and potentially endanger the shorebirds
which need the existing pond for high-tide faraging. So what's the plan
and has anyone really thoght this through??
Dick Carlson
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From email@hidden Mon Oct 13 13:45:07 1997
Subject: Alviso Lesser Black-backed Gull
All,
This morning I saw the LBBG on the other side of the railroad tracks East of
the Alviso Marina parking lot. The bird was as described by Joe Morlan
except that, to me, the bird appeared slightly smaller than the California
Gulls near it. This may be an artifact of the darker mantle or that the bird
is not appear as heavy as the CAGU.
There were no Western gulls in the area for comparison of the Mantle. At
8:52 AM the bird flew straight for the Newby Island Dump. This bird will
probably be, as in the past, best found in either the early morning or in the
late afternoon.
I briefly looked for but did not find the Sabine's Gull (where it was first
found). At 11:00 AM an Osprey flew over the CCRS trailers. There were
several Hermit Thrush and Ruby-crowned Kinglets in the Southern section of
the CCRS net trail. I saw my first fall Fox Sparrow at the Southern end of
the trail.
Take care,
Bob Reiling, 2:40 PM, 10/13/97
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Subject: Alviso Lesser Black-backed Gull
All,
This morning I saw the LBBG on the other side of the railroad tracks East of
the Alviso Marina parking lot. The bird was as described by Joe Morlan
except that, to me, the bird appeared slightly smaller than the California
Gulls near it. This may be an artifact of the darker mantle or that the bird
is not appear as heavy as the CAGU.
There were no Western gulls in the area for comparison of the Mantle. At
8:52 AM the bird flew straight for the Newby Island Dump. This bird will
probably be, as in the past, best found in either the early morning or in the
late afternoon.
I briefly looked for but did not find the Sabine's Gull (where it was first
found). At 11:00 AM an Osprey flew over the CCRS trailers. There were
several Hermit Thrush and Ruby-crowned Kinglets in the Southern section of
the CCRS net trail. I saw my first fall Fox Sparrow at the Southern end of
the trail.
Take care,
Bob Reiling, 2:40 PM, 10/13/97
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Subject: SAGU Records
All:
Including the present immature bird there have been eight records of
Sabine's Gull in Santa Clara County since the first was found by Grant Hoyt
and Dick Stovel at the Palo Alto Duck Pond on 9/26/97. These records are
evenly divided between adult and immature birds. The four adults have been
recorded between 9/2 and 10/10, while the four immatures/juveniles have been
found between 9/17 and 11/20.
Bill
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Subject: Santa Clara County Big Day
All,
Yesterday 10/12/97, Steve Rottenborn, Scott Terrill, and I did a Santa
Clara County Big Day. Scott had promised to do this for the SFBBO and
PRBO fundraisers - we missed their deadlines, but did raise some funds
nonetheless!
We met a 3:00am at the Park and Ride at Page Mill Road and I280 before
heading up to Monte Bello for owling. After getting up top we decided
there was enough time to check a little further up Page Mill Road at a
spot where Steve had heard Saw-Whet Owls before. Here we had a
NORTHERN SAW-WHET OWL, 2 GREAT HORNED OWLS, and 2-4 WESTERN
SCREECH-OWLS. Heading back to Monte Bello, we added 9 WESTERN
SCREECH-OWLS and a CALIFORNIA TOWHEE on the way to "The Meadow", a
spot that produced 2 NORTHERN PYGMY-OWLS, 3 GREAT HORNED OWLS, and 5
more WESTERN SCREECH-OWLS. Heading up towards Black Mountain added
chaparral birds such as CALIFORNIA THRASHER and WRENTIT and a quick
foray further down Stevens Creek added HUTTON'S VIREO, PURPLE FINCH,
VARIED THRUSH, PYGMY NUTHATCH, WINTER WREN, TOWNSEND'S WARBLER,
BAND-TAILED PIGEON, and HAIRY WOODPECKER, Santa Cruz Mountain birds
that we would not get elsewhere the rest of the day. At least 3
VIRGINIA RAILS were at the sag pond and a WHITE-BREASTED NUTHATCH at
the pines by the road was the only one of the day. Remarkably, a
CALIFORNIA QUAIL perched on a fence on the way down Page Mill Road was
also our only one of the day. Misses at Monte Bello included Pine
Siskin and Brown Creeper, birds that we failed to find yesterday.
The next stop was the Guadalupe River near Montague Expressway. Scott
and I changed to boots while Steve climbed the dike and heard a
lingering BLACK-HEADED GROSBEAK. Scott and I missed the grosbeak, but
climbed after Steve to spot his WHITE-THROATED SPARROW. Also here was
a single PACIFIC-SLOPE FLYCATCHER and many LINCOLN'S SPARROWS. We
headed upstream along the river, stopping near the lone eucalyptus to
search for migrants. No redstart any more, but we did add lingering
WARBLING VIREO, WESTERN TANAGER, and 2 ORANGE-CROWNED WARBLERS.
Further up the creek we added 2 WILSON'S WARBLERS, 2 CEDAR WAXWINGS, a
SHARP-SHINNED HAWK, and a DOWNY WOODPECKER - all our only
representatives of their species for the day. No sign of the usual
RED-SHOULDERED HAWKS, but we did get the first of 4 BELTED KINGFISHERS
and the first of two MERLINS.
A quick stop along Los Esteros Road failed to turn up Cattle Egrets,
but added 10 LESSER YELLOWLEGS and 15 AMERICAN PIPITS. The EEC added
a YELLOW WARBLER, a SORA, and several TRICOLORED BLACKBIRDS. Still no
Cattle Egrets at Arzino on the way to CCRS though. At CCRS the wind
was blowing quite hard, but we added single BARN and TREE SWALLOWS
among 5 VIOLET-GREEN SWALLOWS (we had 2 VGSW earlier at Monte Bello
OSP). Later Scott tallied 150 VGSW, 50 BASW, and 5 TRSW over the
nearby sewage ponds. An accipiter, first called a Cooper's Hawk, was
downgraded to "accipiter sp" after a lively discussion among the three
of us - unfortunately we did not find another one of this species all
day. Despite the wind at CCRS, we were able to scrounge up a few more
WESTERN FLYCATCHERS, 4 ORANGE-CROWNED WARBLERS, 2 YELLOW WARBLERS, 2
SPOTTED TOWHEES, a flyover 1st-year THAYER'S GULL, and a very
small-billed grayish empid that had to be left as "empid sp" (the bill
was very Hammond's-like in shape, but was quite extensively pale
underneath and the underparts lacked the yellow tones expected on a
fall Hammonds).
The drive to the waterbird pond added the day's only RED-SHOULDERED
HAWK, soaring over Milpitas. The waterbird pond itself added several
new species, including the RUFF, which I finally managed to pick out
of the sleeping dowitchers by its more strongly edged coverts. Only a
single PECTORAL SANDPIPER was on the pond. The nearby sewage ponds
held an immature GREATER WHITE-FRONTED GOOSE with an injured right
wing (Al Jaramillo first found this bird last week) and 6 RED-NECKED
PHALAROPES.
Passing back through Alviso there were still no Cattle Egrets visible
at the Arzino Ranch, but just after 1:00pm we had the SABINE'S GULL at
the end of Gold Street. Although the Marina gull flock was more
distant from here than from the Marina, Steve opted to scope for the
LESSER BLACK-BACKED GULL, which he found in short order - a good thing
too, because the bird could not be located from the Marina even though
it stayed in the same spot and was still there when we left a half
hour later! It pays to try a few different angles. Scoping Salt Pond
A12 we added both PELICANS (30 BROWN) and both CLARK'S and WESTERN
GREBES.
A quick driveby at the Twin Creeks Baseball Fields added a BURROWING
OWL and the Sunnyvale Ponds added the day's only LESSER SCAUP (three
birds, none at Charleston Slough/Adobe Creek!), a single BONAPARTE'S
GULL, a single MEW GULL, and the first EURASIAN WIGEON (a male
completely out of eclipse) of the day.
The yacht harbor had the day's only SEMIPALMATED PLOVER (1) and
CANVASBACK (1 male). The duck pond across the street had an immature
GREATER WHITE-FRONTED GOOSE (again a very young bird with no white at
the base of the bill yet). Out at the yacht harbor mouth we added a
single WHIMBREL, but the dowitchers were silent. A quick trip to the
observation platform added 2 CLAPPER RAILS and calling SHORT-BILLED
DOWITCHERS. Through some magic Steve managed to locate 2 RED KNOTS
among the thousands of shorebirds not far north of the platform in
Santa Clara County within a few minutes of scoping.
The Palo Alto Flood Control Basin held a COMMON SNIPE (the day's only
one) and a male BLUE-WINGED TEAL. On to Shoreline Lake, we quickly
located the 4 SURF SCOTERS, but the Greater Scaup could not be found
during two passes by the lake. The Forebay added the day's only
COMMON MOORHEN (the Sunnyvale birds having decided to hide all of a
sudden). Charleston Slough produced 9 BLACK SKIMMERS and 3 largely
eclipse plumaged male EURASIAN WIGEONS. Across the way in Adobe Creek
we had at least 6 male and 2 female BLUE-WINGED TEAL.
A last pass by the Arzino Ranch at 4:20pm added a GOLDEN EAGLE being
harassed by a RED-TAILED HAWK on a tower and 5+ CATTLE EGRETS. A
quick stop at Ed Levin Park produced the day's only LARK SPARROW but
no Rufous-crowned Sparrows. YELLOW-BILLED MAGPIES were around and the
ranger station area held 3 RED-BREASTED SAPSUCKERS but none of their
rarer cousins. Driving further up the road we had the day's only
PEREGRINE FALCON overhead. Calaveras Reservoir added the expected
RING-NECKED DUCKS, but no mergansers or Wood Ducks, birds we missed on
the day. Another GOLDEN EAGLE and our first WESTREN BLUEBIRDS were
also here. Marsh Road failed to produce any Wild Turkeys, but Sierra
Road came through with 2 ROCK WRENS and about 12 HORNED LARKS.
The sun was setting and we had little time left, so we opted for a
quick check of the Penitencia Creek Ponds, which at 6:47pm produced
the desired GREEN HERON and a bonus male MERLIN. The Alum Rock Park
Ranger booted us out as we tried to pish up a Rufous-crowned Sparrow
at the west end of the park. Tallying up our total we had 158 species
for the day! Hoping for 160, we headed to Stanford and quickly added
WHITE-THROATED SWIFTS twittering in Green library. An hour of
searching failed, surprisingly, to produce a BARN OWL though, leaving
our final total at 159 species when we split up at 8:45pm after
driving only 145 miles all day (more species than miles)! This is
clearly a new Fall Big Day record for Santa Clara County and not all
that far behind the Spring record of 175! I believe it may also be a
higher total than the other SFBBO teams reached in their respective
counties - too bad we missed the deadline!
A few days prior to this Big Day I worked out the itinerary and put
together an "expected species" list of 147 species. This list was
somewhat conservative but quite accurate in general. We missed the
following 7 "expected species":
Greater Scaup - where did that Shoreline Lake bird disappear to?
Cooper's Hawk - may well have had this bird but couldn't be sure
Barn Owl - Hard to believe that both Stanford and SFBBO came up empty
Brown Creeper - Bad luck
House Wren - a tough one, but has been fairly dependable at CCRS lately
Rufous-crowned Sparrow - not enough time left at Ed Levin Park
Pine Siskin - apparently not a good year (at least yet)
To make up for these birds we had 19 "unexpected" goodies:
Greater White-fronted Goose - 2 very early immatures
Eurasian Wigeon - only 1 earlier report (Peter Metropulos) this fall
Canvasback - 1 early arrival
Red Knot - Rottenborn magic
Ruff - luckily still present
Red-necked Phalarope - late lingering birds
Sabine's Gull - continuing stakeout
Lesser Black-backed Gull - Thank you Mike Mammoser!
Northern Saw-Whet Owl - can be a stinker (none at Monte Bello!)
Tree Swallow - a few still lingering
Pygmy Nuthatch - vocal at 2 places at Monte Bello
Winter Wren - one still present at breeding areas at Monte Bello
Varied Thrush - ~10 birds at Monte Bello - the first reported this fall
Warbling Vireo - 1 late lingering bird
Townsend's Warbler - several at Monte Bello
Wilson's Warbler - 2 late lingering birds
Western Tanager - 1 late lingering birds
Black-headed Grosbeak - 1 late lingering bird
White-throated Sparrow - always tough, especially this early
Note the value of our Guadalupe River stop, with 5 "unexpected"
species in just over an hour of birding!, four of these being
lingering birds that we found nowhere else.
A great day of birding!
Mike Rogers
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From email@hidden Mon Oct 13 16:22:48 1997
Subject: Mt. Hamilton CBC, Good News, and Bad News
All:
The Mt. Hamilton CBC will be held on Tuesday, December 30th this year.
The good news is that this is the one chance we have each year to leave the
public roads and tromp around privately-held ranch land in the Diablo Range.
The other good new is that if you stay for the Countdown Dinner you are
priviledged to chow down in the highest house in Santa Clara County.
The bad new is that "tromp" really means tromp--most of the routes require
six hours or more to complete and are not for the faint of heart or weak of
leg (weak minds are okay). Plus, and this is the really bad news, the
weather tends to be nasty on this count about half the time. Now, last year it
must have broke 60 deg and I stripped down to my T-shirt, but there've been
other times when I've watched the poor ducks trying to break through the ice
and just give up.
If your interested, the count compiler is Don Schmoldt, 510-215-1910.
Bill
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Subject: birds
On Saturday, 11 Oct 97, I returned to Alviso (the scene of the crime), =
where I had missed the Tropical Kingbird by 5 minutes the previous =
day. I made a quick check of the intersection at Spreckles and Grand, =
but was unable to find anything more unusual than a SAY'S PHOEBE. =
There was 13 LESSER YELLOWLEGS in the pond just ne of the =
intersection. I headed for the marina and checked out the juvenile =
SABINE'S GULL with Bob and Barbara Brandiff. Bob mentioned that =
the Lesser Black-backed Gull had returned to Doheny State Beach in =
southern Cal, so I decided to look through the gull flock that was =
gathered across the railroad tracks. I quickly picked out our own =
returning LESSER BLACK-BACKED GULL in amongst the =
CALIFORNIAS. Its darker-looking back made it stand out at this time =
of day. =
After watching this bird for a while I headed for Coyote Creek south =
of hwy 237, passing the San Jose Sewage Plant on Zanker along the =
way. Here I looked through a flock of at least 400 VIOLET-GREEN =
SWALLOWS, hoping for that elusive Bank Swallow. At Coyote =
Creek there is a new levee enclosing an overflow channel. This =
channel has some good weedy habitat with sparrows, though I found =
nothing unusual.
So I stopped at CCRS, where a group of people had one of the juvenile =
RUFFS under observation. There was also a dozen or more =
PECTORAL SANDPIPERS in the pond, but no sign of the Sharp-
tailed. After checking out the overflow channel at CCRS and the EEC =
(with no noteworthy results), I returned to Alviso.
I found 2 adult GOLDEN EAGLES on the Arzino Ranch along Los =
Esteros Road. Back at the marina, Joe Morlan, Jennifer Matkin, and =
Bert McKee were standing vigil over the gull flock. When I scanned =
through the flock, I picked out the LESSER BLACK-BACKED GULL =
walking through the throng. It was easy to locate because of its bright =
yellow legs, but when it laid down it was much less conspicuous (the =
dark mantle didn't seem to contrast with the other gulls as much as it =
did in the morning). =
On Sunday, 12 Oct 97, I started out at the Baylands, checking the =
fennel patch and trees around the little house. I eventually moved to =
the weedy area near the entrance gate, where I found a BREWER'S =
SPARROW. A check of the Palo Alto WPCP produced a number of =
YELLOW-RUMPED WARBLERS, a few LINCOLN'S =
SPARROWS, and a small group of VIOLET-GREEN SWALLOWS.
At Matadero riparian I had 2 DARK-EYED JUNCOES feeding on the =
gravel path along the creek.
At the Charleston Slough area I found 7 BLUE-WINGED TEAL on =
Adobe Creek (5 males and 2 females), a partial eclipse male =
EURASIAN WIGEON in the flood control basin, and 14 BLACK =
SKIMMERS on the slough. At least 3 of the skimmers had bands, but =
one had an aluminum band on the right leg with, what looked like, one =
of Charles Collins bands on the left leg. This band was pale yellowish =
in color with the legend =2264U=22 printed on it, which was read vertically =
=
from bottom to top.
A stop at the Alviso Marina produced the juvenile SABINE'S GULL. =
The second pond north had 14 BROWN PELICANS.
Mike Mammoser
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From email@hidden Mon Oct 13 20:14:40 1997
Subject: Re: SAGU Records
At 01:50 PM 10/13/97 -0800, email@hidden wrote:
>All:
>
> Including the present immature bird there have been eight records of
>Sabine's Gull in Santa Clara County since the first was found by Grant Hoyt
>and Dick Stovel at the Palo Alto Duck Pond on 9/26/97. These records are
>evenly divided between adult and immature birds. The four adults have been
>recorded between 9/2 and 10/10, while the four immatures/juveniles have been
>found between 9/17 and 11/20.
If the first one was found on Sept 26 of this year, how is there a late date
of 11/20 for the juvies? Is one of the dates a typo?
Thanks for compiling the info -- its a banner year for Sabine's all over the
west.
Luke Cole
San Francisco, CA
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From email@hidden Tue Oct 14 11:37:01 1997
Subject: Odd Goose
Dear South Bay Birders,
I received a call today from Gloria Walker about an odd looking goose in the
Palo Alto Duck Pond. The bird in question is a small goose, just larger than
a 'duck pond' mallard, overall its a mocha-colored bird. The bird has a
pink-orange bill with black lips, flesh-colored to yellow-orange legs. When
the wings are folded the primaries show a dark bar at the top of the theigh.
It has a 2-note cackling call when distressed. It sounds to me like either
a immature "blue" SNOW GOOSE or a GREATER WHITE FRONTED GOOSE. Either way an
interesting plumage that we thought some might be interested in. I am not
going to have time to look at it today, if anyone sees it and has a definite
identification I would be interested in passing such information on to
Gloria.
Thanks,
Tom
********************************************
Tom Ryan
San Francisco Bay Bird Observatory
P.O. Box 247
1290 Hope St.
Alviso, CA 95002
(408) 946-6548
(408) 946-9279 fax
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From email@hidden Tue Oct 14 17:06:24 1997
Subject: big migration + got away.
All:
However, this migration was not of the avian kind. Today there was a huge
movement of Sympetrum corruptum (Variegated Meadowhawk) a small dragonfly,
over Half Moon Bay. It began at sunrise and is still going on this
afternoon. I counted numbers as high as 400 in 3.5 minutes over a patch 20m
long and 5 m high. All of the dragonflies were heading east and the wind
was from the NE. Millions of dragonflies took part in this movement, with
lesser numbers of Monarchs, Buckeyes, Red Admirals and Green Darners (a
dragonfly again). There were good numbers of a House Fly sized fly going
east as well. This is the first time I have gotten evidence for large scale
movements in a fly!
I am interested in finding out how extensive this movement was. Did any of
you see lots of dragonflies out today? Were these dragonflies all going in
a specific direction? Perhaps you didn't notice, but there is a possible
way to find out if you did encounter this movement and that is to check the
grill of your car. Please let me know if your car grill (today) was full or
had some dragonflies on it. The roadkill abundance was great today, I
counted 89 dead Variegated Meadowhawks on a 30 m stretch of Hwy 1 . This
sample will allow me to calculate the sex ratio of dragonflies.
I have seen migrations of dragonflies before, and once of Sympetrum
corruptum here in Half Moon Bay. However, I have never seen anything of
this magnitude in North America. I took several counts, picked up some
specimens and have weather data. Hopefully, you folks can help me find out
how extensive the migration was. All of this will be summarized for the
ARGIA (the publication of the Dragonfly Society of the Americas).
And now the one that got away. While walking my dog this morning, at the
HMB baseball diamonds, I had a flock of birds flying over with one making
an odd call. The call sounded like a 'chu-leep' or 'tree-leep' and the
birds looked like longspurs/HOrned larks, but I did not have a good view of
them. What immediately popped into my head, having heard a bunch this
summer, was Chestnut-collared Longspur. I am almost certain that is what
this bird was, however I would like to be more certain to 'officially'
report this bird. If I had more experience with Chestnut-collared Longspur
calls I would feel more confident of the ID. Given the rarity of this
species in San Mateo County, I will just have to let it go.
Cheers
Al.
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 Wed Oct 15 10:00:32 1997
Subject: SC Co. Big Day
Mike, Steve and Scott -
What a spectacular Big Day you had! You could sell tickets to days like that
and people like me would buy them. And yes, you would have easily won, your
159 species (249 total for 63.86%) beating out the Sequoia Audubon's team 158
species (57.25% of the list) in San Mateo Co. Maybe Leica will be as generous
next year and donate another scope for top prize, and you can go for it
again. Meanwhile, I am keeping your account as a guide to fall birding
excellence in Santa Clara County. Thanks for your effort and glad you had a
great time.
Best,
Janet Hanson
SFBBO
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From email@hidden Wed Oct 15 10:14:51 1997
Subject: Embarcadero areas
I paid some brief visits this morning both to the Water Quality Plant area
(Embarcadero Way, Palo Alto) and the Baylands. I think that the number of
Yellow-Rumped Warblers at the former location now qualifies as "a horde".
Myrtle as well as Audubon's are present. I managed to pick out one Black-
Throated Gray in the flock; a few days ago I found one Townsend's. I think it
would be easy to miss an interesting bird here if it is silent....
At the Baylands, the young Greater White-Fronted Goose was actually on the
road, with its big friends. I saw one each of Yellow and Orange-Crowned War-
blers in the fennel patch, Yellow-Rumps and Common Yellowthroats in the area,
but nothing more unusual.
Al Eisner
Oct. 15, 1997
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From email@hidden Wed Oct 15 13:32:34 1997
Subject: banded BLSKs
Dear South Bay Birders,
I received a message today from Mike Taylor at CSU Long Beach, he is studying
Black Skimmers at Bolsa Chica and Newport Back Bay. He informs me that the
bird with the band: yellow 64U seen by Mike Rodgers was banded at the Upper
Newport Bay Ecological Reserve on 8/31/96. Since then it has been seen on 3
occasions:
1- San juan Creek in Dana Point on Oct. 18, 1996
2- Santa Barbara on January 3, 1997
3- Upper Newport Bay on February 9, 1997
He wanted me to thank all of you for sending in these reports. This is the
fourth Black Skimmer band reported locally this year. One was a bird banded
by SFBBO locally, the other three were birds banded in southern California.
These reports provide us with valuable information about not only the
movements of these birds, but also survivorship of the birds produced at the
southern California colonies.
Any resightings of this bird or reports of other banded Black Skimmers,
Caspian Terns, Forster's Terns or Elegant Terns are greatly appreciated.
Only the Black Skimmers have the large plastic bands, all other species have
USFWS aluminum bands. The large plastic bands have 1-2 numbers and a letter
on them and different colors for different sites and years. Even if you can
only determine the color this is still helpful. Thanks again!
Cheers,
Tom
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Tom Ryan
San Francisco Bay Bird Observatory
P.O. Box 247
1290 Hope St.
Alviso, CA 95002
(408) 946-6548
(408) 946-9279 fax
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"While in my own estimation my chief profession is ignorance, yet I sign my
passport applications and my jury evasions as Ornithologist."
- William Beebe
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Subject: banded BLSKs
Dear South Bay Birders,
I received a message today from Mike Taylor at CSU Long Beach, he is studying
Black Skimmers at Bolsa Chica and Newport Back Bay. He informs me that the
bird with the band: yellow 64U seen by Mike Rodgers was banded at the Upper
Newport Bay Ecological Reserve on 8/31/96. Since then it has been seen on 3
occasions:
1- San juan Creek in Dana Point on Oct. 18, 1996
2- Santa Barbara on January 3, 1997
3- Upper Newport Bay on February 9, 1997
He wanted me to thank all of you for sending in these reports. This is the
fourth Black Skimmer band reported locally this year. One was a bird banded
by SFBBO locally, the other three were birds banded in southern California.
These reports provide us with valuable information about not only the
movements of these birds, but also survivorship of the birds produced at the
southern California colonies.
Any resightings of this bird or reports of other banded Black Skimmers,
Caspian Terns, Forster's Terns or Elegant Terns are greatly appreciated.
Only the Black Skimmers have the large plastic bands, all other species have
USFWS aluminum bands. The large plastic bands have 1-2 numbers and a letter
on them and different colors for different sites and years. Even if you can
only determine the color this is still helpful. Thanks again!
Cheers,
Tom
********************************************
Tom Ryan
San Francisco Bay Bird Observatory
P.O. Box 247
1290 Hope St.
Alviso, CA 95002
(408) 946-6548
(408) 946-9279 fax
email@hidden
"While in my own estimation my chief profession is ignorance, yet I sign my
passport applications and my jury evasions as Ornithologist."
- William Beebe
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From email@hidden Thu Oct 16 10:46:05 1997
Subject: Correction to banded BLSK
South Bay Birders,
I accedentally gave credit for the sighting of the BLSK to Mike Rodgers when
it was Mike Mammoser who reported it. I apologize to both.
Tom
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San Francisco Bay Bird Observatory
P.O. Box 247
1290 Hope St.
Alviso, CA 95002
(408) 946-6548
(408) 946-9279 fax
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From email@hidden Thu Oct 16 14:31:17 1997
Subject: Ecuador presentation at McClellan Park
All,
Mrs. Mercedes Rivadeneira of the Ecuadorian bird touring company NEBLINA
FOREST is passing through our area and will give a slide presentation on
the birds found in the many habitats of that country at our Chapter office:
7PM FRIDAY OCTOBER 17. BIRDING OPPORTUNITIES IN ECUADOR at 22221 MCCLELLAN RD,
in Cupertino. Seating is free of charge, but is VERY limited at about 25,
so come early for best seating! This is a more or less impromptu event
seeing as Mrs. Rivadeneira has added us to her crowded itinerary on short
notice. Only recipients of this list and very recent participants in SCVAS
chapter activities have been notified. Hope to see you there!
--Garth Harwood, SCVAS Chapter Manager
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From email@hidden Fri Oct 17 15:01:08 1997
Subject: Possible Orchard Oriole
All,
A caller to this office today requested that I pass along the possibility
that an Orchard Oriole has been hanging around her neighborhood at Sutter &
Harold Sts. in Santa Clara ("off Pruneridge and Saratoga"). Her name is
Linda Michaels and she does not mind if people want to call for further
information (within reason, no very early or late calls please). The number
there is 408-247-7595.
Although she is not a ver