Path: utzoo!utgpu!jarvis.csri.toronto.edu!cs.utexas.edu!uunet!mcsun!ukc!newcastle.ac.uk!turing!jms From: J.M.Spencer@newcastle.ac.uk (J.M. Spencer) Newsgroups: rec.birds Subject: Re: My own (meager) list Message-ID: <1990Jan11.161346.15175@newcastle.ac.uk> Date: 11 Jan 90 16:13:46 GMT References: <7074@lindy.Stanford.EDU> Sender: news@newcastle.ac.uk Organization: Computing Laboratory, U of Newcastle upon Tyne, UK NE17RU Lines: 50 In article <7074@lindy.Stanford.EDU> kevin@lindy.Stanford.EDU (Kevin J. Burnett) writes: > >I just had one of my most productive days ever of birding (in about 1&1/2 >years of doing it) at the Palo Alto Baylands and Mountain View's Shoreline >parks, and I thought I'd post my list: > >Northern Shoveler >Pintail >Green-Winged Teal >Blue-Winged Teal >Cinnamon Teal >American Wigeon >Something that looked like a Eurasian Wigeon >Wood Duck (one female) >Gadwall >Canvasback >Lesser Scaup >Bufflehead >Surf Scoter >Ruddy Duck >Pied-Billed Grebe >Great Blue Heron >Great Egret >Snowy Egret >Black-Crowned Night-Heron >Virginia Rail >Clapper Rail >Common Moorhen >American Avocet >Black-Necked Stilt >Semipalmated Plover >Kildeer >Marbled Godwit >Willet >Double-Crested Cormorant >Brandt's Cormorant >Turkey Vulture >Northern Harrier >American Kestrel >Peregrine Falcon >Ring-Necked Pheasant >Herring Gull >Thayer's Gull >California Gull >Ring-Billed Gull > >I thought that it was pretty good, considering that my total driving time >was about 10 minutes.. So *who* was watching the road?