This morning (11/1, 7:30-7:50AM), I spotted the LARK BUNTING uphill from the second (last) parking lot at Bayfront Park in Menlo Park. It was amongst a flock...
It had been a week, since I originally found the immature HARRIS'S SPARROW at Coyote Pt. County Park in San Mateo. There had been no sightings of the Harris's...
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Nov 1, 2004 9:34 pm
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Birders- The Harris's Sparrow was at Coyote Point today, south of the yacht club where the main levee path meets another path that curves around the field....
It was another beautiful morning at Coyote Point! No wind, San Francisco Bay smooth as glass, and combined with very good visibiliy for optimum viewing of the...
Tronthorn@...
Nov 3, 2004 1:20 am
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There was a Palm Warbler this morning near the dog park on Radio Road in Redwood Shores. It was by the paved parking area and the small fenced-in utility...
Al Eisner
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Nov 3, 2004 7:28 pm
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Between approximately 1pm & 1:30pm (at least) today, an osprey was perched on a bare Doug fir branch in view of and west of Alpine Pond. As I was leaving the...
The CLAY-COLORED SPARROW was still present around noon today. It was closer to the T intersection than the pump station enclosure. It was in the ornamental...
This morning there were 2 pairs of Barrow's Goldeneye and a pair of Hooded Mergansers in the far southeast corner of the Foster City lagoon. There were also...
This afternoon, I was able to confirm my suspicion that the adult male EURASIIAN WIGEON on the pond behind the Nob Hill Market along Redwood Shores Parkway in...
Tronthorn@...
Nov 5, 2004 1:09 am
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PenBirders, We spent a couple of hours, beginning at first light this morning, looking for the Coyote Point Harris's Sparrow. No luck. However, the Radio Road ...
I also spent a couple of hours this morning not seeing the Coyote Point Harris's Sparrow. I did manage to find a Swamp Sparrow in the wetland area south of...
This morning, I spent about ninety minutes scanning San Francisco Bay from Coyote Pt. Waterbirds are increasing, many Clark's Grebes, a scattering of Western...
Tronthorn@...
Nov 7, 2004 12:55 am
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The Palm Warbler continues opposite the pond. Watched it 11/6 from 1:30-2:00 PM with Jennifer Rycenga. Myra Ulvang ...
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Nov 7, 2004 2:28 pm
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A WHITE-WINGED DOVE has been frequenting our feeders in coastal Half Moon Bay yesterday and this morning. Perhaps this is the one Alvaro Jaramillo has also...
This morning from 06:45 - 8:45, I did a seawatch from Ocean Blvd. in Moss Beach. The visibility was fair to about halfway to the horizon. There was a very...
Tronthorn@...
Nov 8, 2004 2:17 am
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This morning, a CLAY-COLORED SPARROW was feeding in the clumps of Sweet Fennel near the south side of the parking at the Coyote Pt. Yacht Club. The...
Tronthorn@...
Nov 9, 2004 12:51 am
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Birders, On Saturday morning a juvenile Glaucous Gull was at Venice Beach in Half Moon Bay. It was just south of the mouth of Frenchman's Creek. It stuck...
I'm forwarding this announcement to peninsula-birding because about half the area of the count circle is in San Mateo Co. And of course San Mateo Co. birders...
Al Eisner
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Nov 10, 2004 1:36 am
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After almost four years, we finally added White-throated Sparrow this morning at our house in Pacifica. It was a white-striped phase. It came to the spilled...
It was calm - too calm, as they say in mystery novels - when I was at Pigeon Point from 7:20 - 8:30 this morning. No shearwaters, no alcids (well, one Common...
I just got off the phone with Al DeMartini. Al was leading a trip for the Sequoia Audubon Society today at Pescadero Marsh. Al found a EASTERN PHOEBE being...
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Nov 14, 2004 2:05 am
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Today, there was a molting adult male OLDSQUAW in with the large scaup flock on San Francisco Bay at the end of the North Access Rd. east of 101 in South San...
Tronthorn@...
Nov 14, 2004 2:49 am
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A group of 4 Brant flew into the waterbird pond for about 15 minutes. They then flew off to the east at 12:10PM. This is the first time I have seen them here. ...
myra ulvang
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Nov 14, 2004 5:12 am
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This morning, an adult male EURASIAN WIGEON was with several American Wigeons along Belmont Slough near the mouth, seen from Redwood Shores. The female...
Tronthorn@...
Nov 15, 2004 1:07 am
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Yesterday evening I decided to go out to the Wavecrest area in Half Moon Bay to see if the Short-eared Owls were in yet. I saw one SHORT-EARED OWL at dusk...
Reference has already made to the two most unusual birds seen on Gary Deghi's Sequoia Audubon trip last Saturday. A reporter from the San Mateo Times was...
Hasn't been reported since November 2nd, so just wanted to let folks know that the LARK BUNTING continues at Bayfront Park in Menlo Park. Today, 11/16 at 11:45...
Today (11/17) at lunch I found a LARK SPARROW feeding with a group of Savannah Sparrows and American Pipits in the large rock circle sculpture that is east...
FYI: "An evening with Pulitzer-Prize winning historian Richard Rhodes, author of , 'Audubon: The Making of an American' the first major biography of John James...