From south-bay-birds-bounces+south-bay-birds-archive=[[email protected]] Mon Dec 15 21:21:58 2003 Received: from www.plaidworks.com (localhost [127.0.0.1]) by plaidworks.com (8.12.9/8.12.9) with ESMTP id hBG5JaPM028547 for <[[email protected]]>; Mon, 15 Dec 2003 21:19:37 -0800 (PST) Received: from imo-r07.mx.aol.com (imo-r07.mx.aol.com [152.163.225.103]) by plaidworks.com (8.12.9/8.12.9) with ESMTP id hBG5IgUP028487 for <[[email protected]]>; Mon, 15 Dec 2003 21:18:43 -0800 (PST) Received: from [[email protected]] by imo-r07.mx.aol.com (mail_out_v36_r4.8.) id t.1a1.1e56769f (16930) for <[[email protected]]>; Tue, 16 Dec 2003 00:18:30 -0500 (EST) From: [[email protected]] Message-ID: <[[email protected]]> Date: Tue, 16 Dec 2003 00:18:29 EST To: [[email protected]] MIME-Version: 1.0 X-Mailer: 8.0 for Windows sub 6803 Content-Type: text/plain; charset="US-ASCII" Content-Transfer-Encoding: 7bit X-Content-Filtered-By: Mailman/MimeDel 2.1.2+ Subject: [SBB] Palo Alto CBC - upper Foothills Park & Los Trancos OSP X-BeenThere: [[email protected]] X-Mailman-Version: 2.1.2+ Precedence: list List-Id: South Bay Birding List-Unsubscribe: , List-Post: List-Help: List-Subscribe: , Sender: south-bay-birds-bounces+south-bay-birds-archive=[[email protected]] Errors-To: south-bay-birds-bounces+south-bay-birds-archive=[[email protected]] I covered these two areas today (12/15) for the Palo Alto CBC. The nocturnal owling highlight was a LONG-EARED OWL calling in upper Foothills Park near the Los Trancos Trail. WESTERN SCREECH-OWLS were fairly vocal...I heard 10 at Foothills and Los Trancos, with good looks at a few. NORTHERN SAW-WHET, BARN and GREAT HORNED were also noted. Daytime highlights from the upper section of Foothills Park included: a PILEATED WOODPECKER along Los Trancos Creek, a NORTHERN PYGMY-OWL near Los Trancos Creek, 2 GOLDEN-CROWNED KINGLETS along Los Trancos Creek, five WHITE-TAILED KITES foraging along Trapper's Trail (a fire road with a very wide fire break swathe that is mostly grassy), and an ORANGE-CROWNED WARBLER along Trapper's Trail (unexpected up in the hills in winter). A female ANNA'S HUMMINGBIRD gathering spider webs at the lower junction of Los Trancos Trail and Trapper's Trail was presumably building her first nest of the season. TOWNSEND'S WARBLERS were pretty numerous (52 for the day), and small flocks of VARIED THRUSHES were here and there in shady patches of California bay. A MERLIN flew over Los Trancos OSP. Two RED-BREASTED NUTHATCHES were in the row of Monterey pines planted along Page Mill Road downhill from the Los Trancos OSP parking lot. Late in the day I flushed a GRASSHOPPER SPARROW in the grasslands near the parking lot at Monte Bello OSP. David Suddjian Capitola, CA [[email protected]] _______________________________________________ Do not post admin requests to the list. They will be ignored. south-bay-birds mailing list ([[email protected]]) Help/Unsubscribe/Update your Subscription: http://www.plaidworks.com/mailman/options/south-bay-birds/south-bay-birds-archive%40plaidworks.com This email sent to [[email protected]]