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Re: postbreeders and misc.
Beqrqry@...
I vote for reply to defaulting to the whole list.
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postbreeders and misc.
jcwings@pronet.net <jcwings@...>
Hello,
First of all, it might be time for an update on the sbcobirding group. There are now 45 subscribers to this listserve in just about two weeks time. Thank you for your interest and participation. This should get even more exciting as fall migration rolls around. If you know of someone that might be interested in subscribing, please refer them to the web site address (found at the bottom of the page) or send their email address to me and I will forward the auto invitation to them. Also wanted are addresses for people that might contribute sightings from the Channel Islands. We may not make it out there but it would be nice to hear about what is being found on the islands. Please help me to keep this group growing in size so we can all benefit from it. A reminder, I intentionally set this up so "Reply To" messages would be sent to the entire group (see the welcome message in the archive). Responses to a posted message can be of interest to the entire group, especially when a question is posed, or someone is seeking information, and everyone else is wondering what the answer might be. A private response would not provide this to the rest of the group. If you wish to reply to the originator of the message, send it to their private email address. Rebecca's reply to a posted message was of interest to the group (I thought) and adds to the information that we can receive from this list group. However, I can change the settings so "Reply To" messages are not seen by the group. Let me know your opinions about that if you have any. Secondly, there is obvious post breeding bird movement going on. Preisker Park in Santa Maria today had a few Yellow Warblers, Pacific-slope Flycatchers, Black-headed Grosbeaks, Hooded and Bullock's Orioles, and a Western Tanager. This park is a good migrant trap but does not support these birds as breeders. Also, there is absolutely no sign of the "mystery grackle" that gave everyone fits in early summer. I have not seen it during several lunch hour visits now. For those that didn't get to see it, go to Joe Morlan's web site where there are a few pictures of it and comments from experts on its identity. A great web site for many reasons. Go to the California Birding and Mystery Photos links. I concede the point that it is not a Common Grackle but a hybrid Great-tailed Grackle X Brewer's Blackbird as many suspected (perhaps the first ever seen). It had me fooled, but it was fun while it lasted! I've learned a lot because of that experience. Good birding. http://fog.ccsf.cc.ca.us/~jmorlan/ Jamie Chavez Santa Maria jcwings@...
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Re: report Friday Morning
Rebecca Fagan Coulter <impact2@...>
Hello SB Co. Birding subscribers,
You just received a message from me intended to go to Joan Hardie. In replying to her email, I replied to you all. Now you all know a little bit more about me than you intended...most of you don't know me at all! But there it is--I'm still fine-tuning this high-tech messaging. My apologies for the clutter--and thanks to Jamie Chavez for organizing the group! Rebecca
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Re: report Friday Morning
Rebecca Fagan Coulter <impact2@...>
Hi Joan,
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Four gallons of sugar water! I hope you have stock in C&H. I didn't see any Costa's when I hiked Aliso Loop on Friday--now I know where they've gone. I had a lovely hike early Friday morning. It was very quiet birdwise, but the day was perfect--cool, slight cloud cover, no crowds. I'm really growing fond of that trail! G&B and Chris and I birded at McGrath State Beach yesterday. According to Guy, it was a little slow, but as far as I was concerned, it was great. No Baird's or Stilt (which have been seen recently), but did have Semi-palmated Sandpiper. Beautiful looks at White-faced Ibis in the sunlight, good tern i.d. session (Elegant, Forster's, Common, Caspian), lots of the usual shorebirds. I'll have to get out to Devereaux one of these afternoons. Rebecca JHcynwren@... wrote:
There were 10 Least Terns (1 juv.) on the beach just west of the "Dune
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Central Coast Birding Trail
Gene Lynch <grlynch@...>
Congratulations to Jamie Chavez for creating the Santa Barbara County
Birding Group. As reports of migrating birds begin to filter in from local hotspots it's a good time to start thinking about forming a team to participate in the Central Coast Birding Rally which highlights birding sites along the Central Coast Birding Trail. The Rally is the weekend of October 15-17, 1999. Remember, all Rally events are absolutely free to participants and sponsors. Check out the Rally webpage for all the details. http://homepages.go.com/~lpas/lpas.html There are two categories of competition, and ,for those who don't want to compete on a birding team, the Rally could use volunteers for staffing the checkpoints during the competition and for helping with the picnic. For monitoring the checkpoints call Eldora Barton, 736-2684, and for the picnic call Patsy Warwick, 688-8733. It's not too soon to register! Gene Lynch, President La Purisima AS
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Sunday
Gene Lynch <grlynch@...>
From the Santa Maria river mouth via Brad Hines
The Sunday morning highlights include: three SemiSandpipers,one Red Knot,two Bairds,and many juv Leasts and Westerns
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deja vu
brad hines <bkhnca@...>
Good afternoon to all, Apparently things are slow to change at
SMRE. The Sunday morning highlights include: three SemiSandpipers,one Red Knot,two Bairds,and many juv Leasts and Westerns. No tiny SemiPlo though :,-( Ciao!...time.
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Mist netting and banding
Paloma Nieto <palomanieto@...>
Mist netting at Chorro Flats today didn't produce any rarities but we did mist net 105 birds (a record for the site). Lots of Common yellowthroats (immatures and adults) and Song sparrows and a mixture of Wilson's warblers, Orange-crowned warblers, Black-phoebes, Bushtits, Spotted towhee, Barn swallow, Brown-headed cowbird (YUK!), Swainson's thrush and a deer that took out about 1/2 a net!
I will be mist netting at Oso Flaco and Chorro Flats through fall migration (early November). Will be at Oso Flaco next on Friday, August 20th and Chorro Flats on Saturday, August 21st and every other week thereafter. If anyone would like to join us to see what interesting things we catch show up between 7AM and 12 PM on any of those days (I bring breakfast - muffins usually - if anyone needs to be bribed). Paloma Paloma Nieto Wildlife Biologist palomanieto@... (805) 929-5377 -- "He whose ear is untrained to hear the harmonious discord of the birds travels alone when he might have company."
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report Friday Morning
JHcynwren@...
There were 10 Least Terns (1 juv.) on the beach just west of the "Dune
Pond" which is just west of Devereaux. There were also 25 Snowy Plovers in the dry sand. There are 100+ hummingbirds at our house inc. Anna's, Costa's, Black-chinned and Selasphorus. Less than 10% are adult males. They consume 4 gallons of sugar water per day. Joan Hardie
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Shorebirds
brad hines <bkhnca@...>
Hello all: I birded the SMRE yesterday morning from 7-9. Not much
change from last week: at least three SemiSand continue along with three juv Bairds. Most interesting to have juv SeSa feeding with nothing but adult WeSa. The lone SemiPlo chick was easily observed ( I didn't see the bands) feeding near the river east of the parking lot. This evening I checked out conditions at SYRE. The water level is rising back into the channels along the entrance road. The wet edge near the beach continues to support feeding shorebirds which included: one juv SeSa and a Surfbird. Had eight juv Least Terns also. Thank you Krista for the info.
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Figueroa Mtn.
Paloma Nieto <palomanieto@...>
Figueroa Mtn. was pretty slow this morning (only 5 birds were banded in 6 hours). I did however, net and band a hatch year Hermit Warbler (passing through I'm sure as I haven't seen or heard any adults in the vicinity prior to this). On the way down the entertainment was courtesy of 4 Condors (2 flying overhead and 2 perching on a dead - almost - pine at the ranger station). It appears they've been visiting there regularly so keep your eyes open!!
Paloma. Paloma Nieto Wildlife Biologist palomanieto@... (805) 929-5377 -- "He whose ear is untrained to hear the harmonious discord of the birds travels alone when he might have company."
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No. Shrike
brad hines <bkhnca@...>
Is anyone aware of Northern Shrike records from eastern SLOco? SW Kern
co?
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Re: Early Date Forster's Tern juv
Slobird@...
Mark Holmgren's statement that Forster's Terns could be showing up in late
July on the coast (Devereux Slough) is further substantiated by what I saw at the Santa Maria River mouth yesterday: a juvenile Forster's Tern's nonstop "begging" call to an adjacent solitary adult. Greg Smith Morro Bay, CA
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Early Date Forster's Tern juv
Mark Holmgren <holmgren@...>
Hi Folks,
Kevin Lafferty took and
transmitted a digital photo today of 2 Least Terns foraging at Devereux Slough
mouth. That prompted me to look at Goleta Beach and Goleta Bay for
terns. There were 6 or 7 Forster's Terns in the bay, mostly around the
buoys at the E end of the bay. Among them was 1 juvenile Forsters seen
well from the UCSB cliffs looking down on the birds as they flew by.
BOSB mentions an early date in SB
Co. for juvenile Forster's Tern as 8 August. This precedes that
obviously. Yet it does not seem that unlikely that juv FoTe would arrive
on the coast in July. Perhaps we have not looked hard enough.
Mark
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Santa Maria River 7/30
Slobird@...
I spent two hours this morning down at the Santa Maria River mouth. The
onshore ocean breeze started just as I arrived, but did not increase to the intensity that I was feeling on the SLOCO coast the previous two days...but it was still breezy. The river mouth is open to the ocean and there is some great habitat, especially with all the water coming down the river. There are plenty of nice shallow-water flats with a small number of peeps and other shorebirds. Highlights were three Semipalmated Sandpipers (all juveniles) and two Baird's Sandpipers (again all juvs). One of the SeSa was at the very south end where the sand/mud flats give way to vegetation (there was also one of the Semipalmated Plover young in this area). The other two SeSa were foraging together further north towards the big black sand?-filled bags. There were enough subtle differences between the three individuals to make me feel comfortable on the numbers. Along with these birds were 12 Black-bellied Plovers, 30 Semipalmated Plovers, seven Snowy Plovers, 14 dowitcher sp., 75 Western's, the same number of Least's, 300 Sanderlings and one Red-necked Phalarope. Very few terns with only small numbers of Caspian, Forster's and Least. I stopped by the Santa Maria Wastewater Treatment Plant and had 35 Wilson's Phalaropes, two Long-billed Dowitchers (my first of the season), 20 Greater Yellowlegs, two Lesser Yellowlegs, numerous Black-necked Stilts and small numbers of peeps. See ya, Greg Smith Morro Bay
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Re: Tropical Kingbird at the SB Bird Refuge
Mark Holmgren <holmgren@...>
Why do you say this?
At 06:44 PM 7/27/99 -0700, you wrote: Thanks, Mark. Now everyone will know I'm an idiot!~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~ * Mark Holmgren, Associate Director 805 893-4098 office * Museum of Systematics and Ecology 805 893-4724 dept. fax * Ecology, Evolution, and Marine Biology * University of California * Santa Barbara, CA 93106 holmgren@... ~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~
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Re: Tropical Kingbird at the SB Bird Refuge
Karen Bridgers <kbridgers@...>
Thanks, Mark. Now everyone will know I'm an idiot!
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From: Mark Holmgren <holmgren@...> To: <sbcobirding@...> Sent: Tuesday, July 27, 1999 6:25 PM Subject: [sbcobirding] Tropical Kingbird at the SB Bird Refuge Dick Norton, Topanga, CA ae327@... submitted the report below of athat yellow bird?"closest to the bird. The sunlight was quite favorable, being no more than 45it if nearpossible. Remember that Brad Hines photographed a mid-summer Tropical for theLompoc last year or the year before, and there is also a summer record theFarallones, so this record would not be without precedent. Of course, if ofbird remained silent, it would probably be best to leave it as a description, ityear. Given multiple observers saw the bird and agree with the have.has more credence than an unknown single-observer sight record would thinkAren't Virginia Rails assumed/known to nest periodically at LLC? I would holmgren@...they would.~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~ ~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~
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Tropical Kingbird at the SB Bird Refuge
Mark Holmgren <holmgren@...>
Dick Norton, Topanga, CA ae327@... submitted the report below of a
TK at the BR. Following that is response from Paul Lehman. Karen exhorts us to find a Couch's Kingbird! Mark ~~ ~~ ~~ ~~ ~~ Tropical Kingbird - Santa Barbara - July 25, 1999 After a day of birding Santa Barbara County, Jim Abernathy, Colin Rogers of South Australia, and Richard Norton stopped at the Andree Clark Bird Refuge. We walked westward, along the trail north of the lake. JA and CR were sitting at the next to last overlook, when CR asked, "What is that yellow bird?" There was a kingbird across the water, on the northwest side of the western-most large island. It was several hundred feet away. JA replied, "It looks like a Tropical Kingbird." JA called RN, who was farther west, on the radio. RN looked at the bird with binoculars. RN saw a very bright yellow kingbird, but was not ready to agree to the ID, because it seemed too far out of season. RN walked back to the car, and retrieved a Kowa TSN-4 scope with a 20- 60 power eyepiece. The bird remained in the same area. All three observers were now between the last two overlooks, east of the small bridge, near the end of the east-west path, at a location closest to the bird. The sunlight was quite favorable, being no more than 45 degrees off of directly behind us. There was no significant heat distortion in the scope view. The bird was a kingbird, with a dark back and very bright yellow breast and belly. The yellow came farther up the breast than it would in a Cassin's Kingbird. The bill was dark, and noticably larger than that of a Cassin's or Western Kingbird. The forked tail was seen very well. It had no white on either the edges or tips. The rectrix lengths tapered in length toward the center. R1 was shorter than R2, which was shorter than R3, ..., on both sides. The forked appearance was not due to a missing rectrix. We did not hear the bird call or sing. We have not eliminated Couche's Kingbird from what we observed. This description was written by Richard Norton from memory, after talking with Jim Abernathy. It has been reviewed by Colin Rogers. Yours truly, Dick Norton, Topanga, CA ae327@... ~~ ~~ ~~ ~~ From: Shawneen Finnegan/Paul Lehman <lehmfinn@...> To: Karen Bridgers <kbridgers@...> Sent: Tuesday, July 27, 1999 1:05 PM Subject: Re: Fw: Fw: Some Santa Barbara Bird Sightings - July 25, 1999 Karen: Aren't Virginia Rails assumed/known to nest periodically at LLC? I would think~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~ * Mark Holmgren, Associate Director 805 893-4098 office * Museum of Systematics and Ecology 805 893-4724 dept. fax * Ecology, Evolution, and Marine Biology * University of California * Santa Barbara, CA 93106 holmgren@... ~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~
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The Two Photos of Cuckoo from SLO Co.
Mark Holmgren <holmgren@...>
Last week I sent to Steve Laymon digital photos of the two Yellow-billed
Cuckoos that have been captured and banded in SLO Co. this summer. He viewed them and wrote the message below. Perhaps Paloma would like to get in touch with Steve? Here is his e-mail: slaymon@... ~~ ~~ ~~ ~~ ~~ Hi Mark, The mid-June cuckoo is almost certainly a male. The white spots are well separated and this IDs probably 85% to sex. The one in mid-July is probably a female based on the extra large bill. Both sexes have brood patches so that doesn't help with the sexing, but it does say that they may be breeding there!!! Pam and I are thinking about visiting the Oso Flaco area on Monday, 1 Aug. Who would be a good contact to find out what area the cuckoos were captured in? That's all for now, Steve ~~ ~~ ~~ ~~ ~~ ~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~ * Mark Holmgren, Associate Director 805 893-4098 office * Museum of Systematics and Ecology 805 893-4724 dept. fax * Ecology, Evolution, and Marine Biology * University of California * Santa Barbara, CA 93106 holmgren@... ~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~
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Figueroa Mtn. - Pino Alto Picnic Area
Paloma Nieto <palomanieto@...>
Mist netting and banding at Pino Alto Picnic Area (Figueroa Mtn.) this morning I caught an adult Northern pigmy owl (great little bird). Couldn't tell gender. Interestingly enough about 2 weeks ago I also caught 2 Northern pigmy owls in the mist nets at Sedgwick Reserve. Those two I'm fairly certain were male and female, although there were no brood patches or cloacal protuberances, but they had youngsters in the vicinity which were quite verbal after releasing the adults.
Paloma Nieto Wildlife Biologist palomanieto@... (805) 929-5377 -- "He who's ear is untrained for the harmonious discord of the birds travels alone when he might have company."
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