North American Birds reminder
Sat, 4 Aug 2001 09:06:49 PDT
From: Steve Glover
Dear North American Birds contributors,
Apologies as usual for those of you getting this on multiple listserves!
Please send your noteworthy records from the Middle Pacific Coast Region for the period 1 June 2001 - 31 July 2001 to the appropriate Subregional Editors (see below) or to the Regional Editors by 10 August.
We are pleased to welcome Tom Ryan to the staff of Regional Editors, joining Scott Terrill in the "seabirds" group.
Also, please keep in mind that Steve Glover is responsible for all birds from doves through Wrentit, and that this includes such birds as vireos and shrikes.
Please use Subregional Editors for the counties that have them. These SREs painstakingly keep track of records within their counties and are in most cases the source of information on the birds of their counties. By sending your records to the SREs, you are helping to contribute to their county files as well as to North American Birds. If you wish to send copies to the Regional Editors, we welcome them, but please send records through the SREs as well. If you have a noteworthy winter sighting from a county without a Subregional Editor, please send records to the Regional Editors below. [For e-mail addresses of editors, contact the list owner at birds@folkbird.net ]
Records of loons-frigatebirds and larids-alcids go to Scott Terrill & Tom Ryan at:
H.T. Harvey & Associates
3150 Almaden Expwy., Suite 145
San Jose, CA 95118
Records of herons to shorebirds go to Daniel Singer at:
Arroyo & Coates
500 Washington Street, Suite 700
San Francisco, CA 94111
Records of doves through thrushes/Wrentit (in the new AOU order, that includes vireos and shrikes) go to Steve Glover at:
6526 Conestoga Lane
Dublin, CA 94568
Records of thrashers to finches go to Don Roberson at:
282 Grove Acre Avenue
Pacific Grove, CA 93950
SUBREGIONAL EDITORS
Alameda
Bob Richmond
24650 Amador St. #15
Hayward, CA 94544
Alpine & Calaveras
Penelope Bowen
2035 Ashton Ave
Menlo Park CA 94025
Amador
Mike Robbins
8700 Elk Ridge Way
Elk Grove CA 95624
Butte, Colusa, Glenn, Sutter, Tehama, Yuba
Bruce Deuel
18730 Live Oak Road
Red Bluff, CA 96080
Contra Costa
Steve Glover
6526 Conestoga Lane
Dublin CA
94568
Del Norte
Alan D. Barron
1093 Hwy 101 N. #18
Crescent City, CA 95531
El Dorado
Tim Steurer
4042 Bancroft Dr.
El Dorado Hills, CA 95762-6933
Humboldt
David Fix and Jude Claire Power
P.O. Box 4331
Arcata, CA 95518
Kings
Luke Cole
561 Hill Street
San Francisco, CA 94114
Lake
Jerry R. White
P.O. Box 113
Kelseyville, CA 95451
Lassen, Sacramento & Yolo
Tim Manolis
808 El Encino Way
Sacramento, CA 95864
Mendocino
Bob Keiffer
P. O. Box 354
Hopland CA 95449
Merced & San Benito
Kent Van Vuren
26 Vista Dr.
Salinas, CA 93907
Modoc
John Sterling
Jones & Stokes Associates
2600 V St.
Sacramento, CA 95818-1914
Mono & San Mateo
Peter J. Metropolus
470 Middlefield Rd.
Atherton, CA 94027
Monterey
Don Roberson
282 Grove Acre
Pacific Grove CA
93950
831.373.2566 fax
Napa & Solano
Robin Leong
336 Benson Ave.
Vallejo, CA 94590-3027
Nevada
Brian Williams
204 Teton Place
Woodland, CA 95695-5928
Placer
Ed Pandolfino
4807 Miners Cove Circle
Loomis, CA 95650
Plumas & Sierra
John "Mac" McCormick
2351 Filbert St.
Apt. #102
San Francisco, CA 94123
San Francisco (mainland)
Hugh Cotter
1219 Broderick St.
San Francisco, CA 94115
San Joaquin
David G. Yee
11707 N. Alpine Rd.
Lodi, CA 95240
Santa Clara
William G. Bousman
321 Arlington Way
Menlo Park CA 94025
Santa Cruz
David Suddjian
801 Monterey Ave.
Capitola, CA 95010
Shasta
Bob Yutzy
P. O. Box 990237
Redding CA 96099
Siskiyou
Ray Ekstrom
2209 Delphic Rd.
Montague, CA 96064
Sonoma
Ruth Rudesill
P.O. Box 371
Kenwood, CA 95452
Stanislaus
Jim Gain
310 Gayle Ave
Modesto, CA 95350
Trinity
John E. Hunter
P.O. Box 4483
Arcata, CA 95518
Tuolumne
Kenneth J. Brunges
P.O. Box 1180
Columbia, CA 95310
We currently have no regional editors for Fresno, Madera, Marin, Mariposa and Tulare Counties. Records from these counties should be sent directly to the Regional Editors.
The Reporting Deadlines are:
Spring:
Season ends May 31
Observer reports to SREs June 10
Observer reports to Regional Editors (if not sent to SRE) June 10
SRE reports to Regional Editors June 20
Regional Editors final text to ABA office July 10Summer:
Season ends July 31
Observer reports to SREs Aug 10
Observer reports to Regional Editors (if not sent to SRE) Aug 10
SRE reports to Regional Editors Aug 20
Regional Editors final text to ABA office Sep 10Fall:
Season ends Nov 30
Observer reports to SREs Dec 10
Observer reports to Regional Editors (if not sent to SRE) Dec 10
SRE reports to Regional Editors Dec 20
Regional Editors final text to ABA office Jan 10Winter:
Season ends Feb 28
Observer reports to SREs Mar 10
Observer reports to Regional Editors (if not sent to SRE) Mar 10
SRE reports to Regional Editors Mar 20
Regional Editors final text to ABA office Apr 10
Please meet your deadlines so that we can meet our deadlines!
Please send reports in our preferred order: species, date(s) [including year], locale, co. abbrev., number of birds, and observer, and then, on a second line, any comments. Please separate these sections by a "tab" (except just a space between locale and county abbreviation) on electronic versions submitted. Again, here's an example of the correct format:
Grace's Warbler 12/13/98-2/20/99 Jacks Peak MTY 1
RFT, mob
A second record for the Region (the first was 6/26/91 at Deer Spring,
Glass Mt. MNO) which wintered with a large flock of Townsend's & Hermit
warblers at the very top of Jacks Peak in Jacks Peak Regional Park. Details
by Tintle and others are enclosed.
Many observers and Subregional Editors have been submitting their reports electronically, either on a diskette or by e-mail. Please submit electronic reports if possible. We are trying to maintain an electronic database of at least recent records, and we hope to be able to have all old data entered eventually so that the entire database will be easily accessible to anyone who wants it. Electronic submission of records in the format described above makes it much easier for us maintain this electronic database.
We've heard questions about, comments on, and criticism of our regional reports from several observers and SREs. We really appreciate this feedback, as it helps us to better represent what is going on in the Region as a whole. Please help us correct any factual errors we make, and don't hesitate to let us know what you think of the reports.
Many thanks to all the contributors and Subregional Editors who make these reports possible!
Sincerely,
Don Roberson, Dan Singer, Scott Terrill, Tom Ryan, and Steve
Glover
(Middle Pacific Coast Regional Editors)
Black Skimmers at Richmond Marina Bay
Sat, 04 Aug 2001 17:22:55 -0700
From: Neil Whitehouse
Yesterday (Friday August 3) Lina Jane Prairie and I saw 3 Black Skimmers flying east over Richmond Marina Bay - 2 adults and a juvenile. We also saw 2 Wandering Tattlers along the south shore of Marina Bay.
Neil Whitehouse.