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From: alonso@clausius.mmwb.ucsf.edu
Newsgroups: rec.birds
Subject: Re: Killdeer question
Keywords: killdeer
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Date: 7 Jan 91 01:48:58 GMT
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Reply-To: alonso@clausius.mmwb.ucsf.edu.UUCP (Darwin Alonso)
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I too have noticed a large influx of Killdeer here in San Francisco
since the feeze. It can get pretty eirie with their calls
when I am bicycling home through Golden Gate park late at night. 
They all seem healthy enough though, and I seem to recall other 
times when there were many here in S.F.

It's not one of your hard core 60 species Christmas counts,
but I had a really pleasant day birding at Pt. Reyes a just before
New Year.  A friend was down from Fairbanks, so it was a treat for
her to see things other than Redpoll and Crows.
I got real good looks at three of my favorite (though not exactly rare)
birds;  White Pelicans, Western Bluebirds, and Cinnamon Teal.
The White Pelicans were feeding by just dipping their
heads under in fairly shallow water right at the edges of some
sea weed/grass beds in Drake's Estero. Doesn anyone out there know
what they eat?

Darwin O.V. Alonso                     alonso@maxwell.mmwb.ucsf.edu  
U.C. San Francisco,                            or
wk. (415) 476-8910; home 564-8601      alonso@cgl.ucsf.edu