Date: 7/2/25 5:25 pm From: Vicki Silvas-Young via groups.io <mrnngwrblr...> Subject: [southbaybirds] Field Trip to Sunnyvale WPCP, 7-2-2025
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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