These older entries were found in the 1997-2001 South-Bay-Birds mailing list archives that Chuq von Rospach has kindly hosted all these years. These updates were posted to south-bay-birds by Kendric Smith based on the data gathered by Bill Bousman.

See the Santa Clara County Bird List 1999 or view all the cumulative year lists.

January, February, March 1999

(No archive — it looks like there was a gap in reporting the list after Mike Rogers stopped and before Bill Bousman started.)

April 1999

Subject: [SBB] Santa Clara Co. Bird List is Back

Greetings:

Thanks to Bill Bousman, the Santa Clara County Bird List for 1999 is alive and well.

We are still working out a few bugs, but hope that soon the list will be up-to-date.

Please check out the list on SBBU.

South Bay Birders Unlimited (SBBU)
http://www.stanford.edu/~kendric/birds/

If you have suggestions for how the list can be improved (content and presentation), please let me know.

Finally, I want the thank the people who responded to my questionaire about the list. All were positive. I especially want to express my appreciation to the several people who volunteered to reactivate the list. Since Bill already had his list in progress, it seemed more efficient to proceed with his list.

Kendric

May 1999

(No archive)

June 1999

Bill Bousman has updated the Santa Clara Co. Bird List as of June 7.

The current total is 253.

July 1999

Bill Bousman has added 6 more birds to the Santa Clara Co. list on SBBU for a total of 264 for the year.

The new birds are: Least Bittern, Little Blue Heron, Ruddy Turnstone, Semipalmated Sandpiper, Purple Martin, Dickcissel

August 1999

The total is 270 with 6 new birds: White-faced Ibis, Swainson's Hawk, Red Knot, Baird's Sandpiper, Ruff, Common Tern

September 1999

(No archive)

October 1999

(No archive)

November 1999

The October total of 284 has increased by only 2 in November to 286 with the addition of Rough-legged Hawk and Tropical Kingbird. These were seen by Matthew Dodder and Chuck Coston.

We are well into December now without any new species. In general, even with all the activity associated with the Christmas Bird Counts (CBC), we rarely add more than two or three birds during the CBC season. However, the present 286 is well down from the last two years where we were at 304 in 1997 coming into the CBC season (that was our record year), and at 298 in 1998 at the start of the CBCs. So there is a possibility of more of a jump. We will see.

December 1999

We finished the year with 286 species with no new species for December. Thus, the November list becomes the year list.

The CBC season brought three potential new species for the year list: Red-naped Sapsucker, Mountain Bluebird, and Red Crossbill. Each of these species may well have been exactly as described, but each is also rare and in the end the descriptions did not adequately support the birds observed. Neither the sapsucker nor crossbills could be refound, but the purported Mountain Bluebird is still present. Everyone should take a look at this bird to understand the difficulties that exist in separating female bluebirds.