Greetings, all -- Last weekend we did a little lunch paddle in San Pedro Harbor (between Long Beach and Palos Verdes) and the weekend previous in the Upper Newport Bay. The purpose of these 2-hour jaunts is bird watching and a floating picnic. Very calm water, just pleasant sight-seeing trips. So what have we seen in the last few weeks around here? Great blue, green, and black-crowned night-herons; great and cattle egrets; red-tailed, sharp-shinned, cooper, and marsh hawks; turkey vultures; american kestrels; avocets; buffleheads; coots; western and pied-billed grebes; american bitterns; canadian and snow geese; terns; a sora (!); white and brown pelicans; cormorants; hummingbirds; loggerhead shrikes; an immature bald eagle; mallard and mexican ducks; pintails; cinnamon teals; a belted kingfisher; red-winged blackbirds; long-billed curlews; willets; various sandpipers and surfbirds; and guess what? gulls! And none of them have ever landed on my kayak :-( I guess I'll have to put more breaded snails on the bow ;-) Here's a question for anyone in Southern or Central CA...have you been to Soda Lake in the Carrizo Plains when the Sand Cranes are there? I heard from a naturalist it is possible to camp there and kayak when the lake is sufficiently wet (it's not there in summer at all) to look at the cranes. I'd like to do that this year and would appreciate any information. >///:>Chris Hardenbrook<:\\\< Sunny Southern California *************************************************************************** PaddleWise Paddling Mailing List Submissions: paddlewise_at_lists.intelenet.net Subscriptions: paddlewise-request_at_lists.intelenet.net ***************************************************************************Received on Fri Jan 30 1998 - 21:59:28 PST
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