Date: 7/2/25 5:48 pm From: Vicki Silvas-Young via groups.io <mrnngwrblr...> Subject: Re: [southbaybirds] Field Trip to Sunnyvale WPCP, 7-2-2025
Ooops.....an addendum that will probably get me in trouble!
I tune into the monthly Condor Chat that is sponsored by Ventana Wildlife
Society, https://www.ventanaws.org/ It appears that the federal funding
that was thought to continue to the end of 2026 is no longer true. So, you
see the dilemma here. Please consider socking a bit of cash to them to
keep a good thing going, i.e. the Condor Recovery program.
Thanks,
Vicki
On Wed, Jul 2, 2025 at 5:25 PM Vicki Silvas-Young via groups.io <mrnngwrblr=
<gmail.com...> wrote:
> Good afternoon, Birders,
>
> On a very pleasant summer day, Dan Bloch and I took 10 birders along the
> trail near the Sunnyvale WPCP to view 26 bird species in this
> "end-of-breeding" season. At the very beginning of the trip, with
> persistent Marsh Wrens singing in the background, a very young "teen-aged"
> Black-crowned Night Heron with a green bill, practicing its hunting skills,
> greeted us. Along the slough there was a flock of Red-winged Blackbirds,
> an assortment of male, female, and "teenagers," providing us with a
> challenge of who was who. Small "gangs" of young Mallards regarded us with
> suspicion and paddled away as quickly as their orange legs could take
> them. Caspian and Forster's Terns put in an appearance to let us know that
> the season is beginning to change. Lucky us, we saw all four herons,
> Green, Great-blue, (plain) Great, and Snowy and the same was true for
> identifying and discussing four swallows, Cliff, Tree, Northern
> Rough-winged, and Barn.
> I am indebted to Dan for being the keeper of the eBird list.......my
> thanks to you, Dan. And, here it is!
> https://ebird.org/checklist/S256336274 > Go Birding!
> Vicki
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