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Monterey Bay Birds for Saturday, January 12, 2002
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Subject: Santa Cruz peregrinations
From: DSUDDJIAN(AT)aol.com
Date: 12 Jan 2002 10:00pm
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(Tried to send this earlier...seems not to have gone thru to the list)
I led a Santa Cruz Bird Club trip today (1/12). Thanks to the many folks who
helped find and share birds.
Lots of bird activity at New Brighton State Beach, but except for a flyby
PEREGRINE seen by a couple folks there was not much unusual there. I did
manage to get within 5 inches of a BROWN CREEPER that almost let me grab it!
Palm Beach had about 5 WHITE-WINGED SCOTERS among the waves and 6-7 TREE
SWALLOWS foraging over the beach and surf. A GREAT HORNED OWL was enjoyed as
it perched in the eucalyptus grove. An AMERICAN PIPIT posed for several
minutes on a wire, a lifer for several on the trip.
We checked Struve Slough at Lee Road from the south side of the flooded
section. Here we saw a GREAT-TAILED GRACKLE fly in from across the slough,
only to disappear into some willows before we could really enjoy it. It
called several times from the willows but did not come out. I guess this is
perhaps one of those seen by Clay Kempf on 1/1, as I think we were in the
same area. An adult GOLDEN EAGLE flew over going south.
Duck numbers at College lake were low and no geese were evident. No swallows
there today...odd for mid-January.
The TUFTED DUCK was still at Westlake Pond and we enjoyed him in excellent
light. His tuft is now quite a bit longer than it was in mid-December. It was
great to see it flopping about as he preened. Two male RUDDY DUCKS had good
reddish body color (one more so than the other) and blue bill color, but the
others were still winter drab. I presumed the colorful ones to be year-round
residents. We were finally chased away by the trio of resident CANADA
GEESE...really, we were.
We finsihed up at Kumaran's Santa Cruz backyard looking into his neighbor
Madeline's yard and its feeders. I saw a PEREGRINE soaring over the Chrystal
Terrace area. Then about 3:45 p.m. we saw the male BLACK-THROATED BLUE
WARBLER as he came in to drink at the hummer feeder. A nice ending to the day.
David Suddjian, Capitola
Santa Cruz Bird Club
Bird Records Keeper
dsuddjian(AT)aol.com
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Subject: Some Santa Cruz wanderings
From: DSUDDJIAN(AT)aol.com
Date: 12 Jan 2002 9:35pm
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I led a Santa Cruz Bird Club trip today (1/12). Thanks to the many folks who
helped find birds.
Lots of bird activity at New Brighton State Beach, but except for a flyby
PEREGRINE seen by a couple folks there was not much unusual there. I did
manage to get within 5 inches of a BROWN CREEPER that almost let me grab it!
Palm Beach had about 5 WHITE-WINGED SCOTERS among the waves and 6-7 TREE
SWALLOWS foraging over the beach and surf. A GREAT HORNED OWL was enjoyed as
it perched in the eucalyptus grove. An AMERICAN PIPIT posed for several
minutes on a wire, a lifer for several on the trip.
We checked Struve Slough at Lee Road from the south side of the flooded
section. Here we saw a GREAT-TAILED GRACKLE fly in from across the slough,
only to disappear into some willows before we could really enjoy it. It
called several times from the willows but did not come out. I guess this is
perhaps one of those seen by Clay Kempf on 1/1, as I think we were in the
same area. An adult GOLDEN EAGLE flew over going south.
Duck numbers at College lake were low and no geese were evident. No swallows
there today...odd for mid-January.
The TUFTED DUCK was still at Westlake Pond and we enjoyed him in excellent
light. His tuft is now quite a bit longer than it was in mid-December. It was
great to see it flopping about as he preened. Two male RUDDY DUCKS had good
reddish body color (one more so than the other) and blue bill color, but the
others were still winter drab. I presumed the colorful ones to be year-round
residents. We were finally chased away by the trio of resident CANADA
GEESE...really, we were.
We finsihed up at Kumaran's Santa Cruz backyard looking into his neighbor
Madeline's yard and its feeders. I saw a PEREGRINE soaring over the Chrystal
Terrace area. Then about 3:45 p.m. we saw the male BLACK-THROATED BLUE
WARBLER as he came in to drink at the hummer feeder. A nice ending to the
day.
David Suddjian, Capitola
Santa Cruz Bird Club
Bird Records Keeper
dsuddjian(AT)aol.com
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Subject: North Coast SCZ
From: Roger Wolfe <rogwolfe(AT)cruzio.com>
Date: 12 Jan 2002 3:30pm
This morning there was a SHORT-EARED OWL prowling the ag fields across
the highway and just north of the Davenport cement plant.
At the marsh near the mouth of Laguna Creek there was a single juvenile
SNOW GOOSE.
Also of interest was a huge flock of 73 BLACK OYSTERCATCHERS roosting
at Greyhound Rock. An unseasonal flock of 11 Turkey Vultures swooped
by as I was scoping from the lookout there.
Good birding,
Roger
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Subject: Neary smorgasbord
From: Kimberly Jannarone <kmj(AT)cats.ucsc.edu>
Date: 12 Jan 2002 8:20pm
Saturday was a day of extremes at Neary: in addition to the
scientifically calculated gazillions of RED-WING BLACKBIRDS, ROBINS,
MOURNING DOVES, CHICKADEES, etc., etc., I and some passers-by found a
line-up of 5 BLACK-CROWNED NIGHT HERONS at the water's edge opposite
the main plankway. Particularly nice was the fact that they stayed
in this line-up for well over an hour, and most of them were perched
on mostly exposed branches. We had great looks at them preening
themselves in direct sunlight, their plumes flopping upside-down and
everything. A real treat.
--
Kimberly Jannarone
J16 Theater Arts Center
1156 High Street
University of California
Santa Cruz, CA 95064
office: 831/459-3490
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Subject: Auditory Hawk attack
From: Leda Beth Gray <lbg2dd(AT)earthlink.net>
Date: 12 Jan 2002 7:45pm
Hi Folks,
Yesterday while we were draining our worm compost, and I was holding the jug
under the spigot, while my husband Dave was manning the valve, we heard a
loud "thwack!!" above us, and loud flapping noises, rather like a
Band-tailed Pigeon's flapping. For some stupid reason I chose to keep from
spilling the worm tea, instead of just dropping it and looking to see what
was happening but Dave looked up, and through the branches of the pine tree
thought he saw the back end of a hawk flying away, the right size and tail
length for a Cooper's. Feathers were drifting down from the Knobcone Pine
tree above us. The feathers stopped and then more rained down. There was
another break and a third set rained down. They looked like Mourning Dove
feathers to us. So we think a dove was sitting there digesting its morning
meal of millet from our deck one second, then was snapped up as a meal for a
Cooper's Hawk the next.
Titmice have been singing regularly for a couple of weeks now. This past
week Dave spotted one coming out of one of our bird houses, so it looks like
they are house hunting. This particular bird house has had two titmice nest
failures due to abandoned eggs the last two years, so we have moved it to a
new location. It was rather shaded before with only early morning sun. Now
it will get sun for much of the morning.
Chickadees seem to be squabbling more than usual, too so I think they are
becoming more territorial. Pygmy Nuthatches are around fairly regularly
after being mostly absent since before the rain started. During dry weather
they seem to come for the bird bath mostly. Now they are hitting the
peanuts and sunflower.
Pine Siskins are numerous and make a big racket up in the trees. There were
a few around regularly since the day after the Santa Cruz CBC but the
numbers have been increasing recently.
Leda Beth Gray
Ben Lomond.
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