This morning Robbie Fischer and I checked out the Cypress Lawn Cemetery in Colma where the wintering Tropical Kingbird put on a nice show just south of the...
Hello all, I thought that San Mateo birders might be interested in these two messages, as they are about Windy Hill OSP, which I think is in San Mateo county....
Panache Valley Trip with Golden Gate : Every time you mention that this bird is a lifer you receive a high five among the birders!!. I have been wanting to...
Bill Daniels
b-daniels@...
Feb 3, 2003 4:20 am
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Is the Tropical kingbird still at Colma?? We just returned from a great 10 days birding in Belize. Richard C. Carlson Full Time Birder, Biker & Rotary...
This afternoon at lunch, I observed a brilliant, male Selasphorus hummingbird at the ped/bike bridge over the San Francisquito Creek just east of the Caltrain...
This afternoon at Coyote Pt., a female BARROW'S GOLDENEYE was feeding near the entrance to the Coyote Pt. Marina. The fenced in pond behind the shopping center...
Tronthorn@...
Feb 7, 2003 12:52 am
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Based on some recently received feedback off-list and more review, I now believe this bird was a probable Rufous Hummingbird. Checking both Sibley and NGS,...
I stopped by the pond around 3:55-4:20p this afternoon and saw neither the Eurasian Green-winged Teal nor the Eurasian Wigeon. But I did see 4 BLUE-WINGED...
Banding records from Coyote Creek Field (nee Riparian) Station in Alviso, Santa Clara Co., show that both species were captured in Feb. with Allen's having a...
Yesterday, I had the Eurasian Green-winged Teal around 2 P.M. and at that time, it seemed uneasy and at any moment, I was expecting it to fly off. The one...
Tronthorn@...
Feb 8, 2003 12:18 am
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Around nine this morning, I walked up to the observation deck behind the Coyote Pt. Museum. I lifted my binoculars in perfect timing, as the first duck to come...
Tronthorn@...
Feb 8, 2003 12:42 am
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Hello Birders: I checked out Redwood Shores today in search of the male Eurasian/Common Green-winged Teal seen by Ron Thorn earlier this week. No luck. ...
This morning at 7:30, I started out with very cold fingers in the low temperature at Pigeon Pt. Al Eisner timed his arrival there as the sun was beginning warm...
Tronthorn@...
Feb 9, 2003 1:18 am
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Not the weather, but the Kingbird. This morning it was still at Cypress Lawn Cemetary on the west side of El Camino in Colma. It was along the road which...
Al Eisner
eisner@...
Feb 9, 2003 10:38 pm
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Birders, Earlier this afternoon I stopped by the pond behind the shopping center along Redwood Shores Parkway and saw the four Blue-wined Teal (3 males, 1 ...
This morning, I started out with a one hour seawatch from the bluff along Ocean Blvd. in Moss Beach. The only tubenose species were ( 2 ) NORTHERN FULMARS. ( 4...
Tronthorn@...
Feb 10, 2003 12:36 am
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We had a nice male Rufous hummer at Moss Beach this morning. The Brown Booby was not at the Princeton harbor at 1 p.m. Richard C. Carlson Full Time Birder,...
Although not the same part of the coast as Ron was referring to in his recent posting up to about 10 ring-bills have been regular at Linda Mar Beach at least...
A group from my birding class did "Duck Dash" today where we tried to find as many waterfowl species as possible, within a reasonable distance. We ended up...
At 12 noon today, a male EURASIAN GREEN-WINGED TEAL was on the waterbird pond in front of the sewage treatment plant for Redwood Shores. The teal was at the...
Tronthorn@...
Feb 10, 2003 10:36 pm
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Hello Birders: Today around 1:30, I ran into Ron Thorn and Pat Boor at the Redwood Shores Radio Rd. pond (sewage treatment plant). We found the EURASIAN...
Hi Tim, Yes, I am enjoying not working, BUT I have been doing it for a year, so in Sept. I started actively job hunting. Still hard! I have a consulting ...
At/near the noon hour today, the Eurasian Green-winged Teal continued in the pond at Radio Road in Redwood Shores. In addition, a male Eurasian Wigeon was in...
Hi San Mateo Birders: I checked out this website, posted by Leda Beth Gray, and it is cool. You may all have seen it, but it's new to me. You can submit your...
I always expect to see good numbers of rocky shorebirds at Coyote Point, and today's quick trip did not disappoint. While many of the birds were tucked deep...
This past winter, I've been making regular visits to Coyote Pt. County Park. I've noted down the numbers of passerines wintering there. The numbers of...
Tronthorn@...
Feb 16, 2003 12:22 am
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Today, below the footbridge and Caltrain bridge over San Francisquito Creek between Menlo Park and Palo Alto, there was a pair of Hooded Mergansers on the...
A 30 minute sea watch at Pigeon Point this morning yielded an adult light morph Pomarine Jaeger sitting on the water. Other highlights included three...
Merry Haveman
dmhavmn@...
Feb 16, 2003 1:02 am
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This morning, I did a seawatch from 7-10 A.M. at Pigeon Pt. As I drove on down the coast, I was excited to see the visibility was good. A full Moon was in it's...
Tronthorn@...
Feb 17, 2003 2:05 am
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This morning, I spent some time around the sewage treatment plant for Redwood Shores. Feeding on the new green grass on the north side of the plant with feral ...