From south-bay-birds-bounces+south-bay-birds-archive=[[email protected]] Fri Jan 31 11:22:17 2003 Received: from www.plaidworks.com (localhost [127.0.0.1]) by plaidworks.com (8.12.6/8.12.2) with ESMTP id h0VJK94x012257 for <[[email protected]]>; Fri, 31 Jan 2003 11:20:10 -0800 (PST) Received: from imo-r05.mx.aol.com (imo-r05.mx.aol.com [152.163.225.101]) by plaidworks.com (8.12.6/8.12.2) with ESMTP id h0VJJKSE012208 for <[[email protected]]>; Fri, 31 Jan 2003 11:19:21 -0800 (PST) Received: from [[email protected]] by imo-r05.mx.aol.com (mail_out_v34.13.) id t.11e.1d787acf (3657) for <[[email protected]]>; Fri, 31 Jan 2003 14:17:29 -0500 (EST) From: [[email protected]] Message-ID: <[[email protected]]> Date: Fri, 31 Jan 2003 14:17:29 EST To: [[email protected]] MIME-Version: 1.0 X-Mailer: AOL 7.0 for Windows US sub 10634 Content-Type: text/plain; charset="US-ASCII" Content-Transfer-Encoding: 7bit X-Content-Filtered-By: Mailman/MimeDel 2.1 Subject: [SBB] Monte Bello Owling X-BeenThere: [[email protected]] X-Mailman-Version: 2.1 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]] All, This morning Peggy Don, Pat Kenny, Roland Kenner, Frank Vanslager and I arrived at Monte Bello OSP shortly after 5 AM in an attempt to duplicate recent, successful, Owling trips by Mike Rogers and Jim Danzenbaker. We were pleasantly surprised when we arrived that it was 5 degrees warmer than in the valley, a balmy 56 degrees, with no wind. First birds heard, near the Sag Pond, were a GREAT HORNED OWL and a WESTERN SCREECH-OWL (the Great Horned Owl was some distance away and up on the hill to the northeast). In fact, Great Horned and Western Screech-Owls were the only calls heard as we headed down Canyon Trail to it's junction with the Stevens Creek Nature Trail. We then headed down the Stevens Creek Nature trail for perhaps a quarter of a mile, stopping to listen for Northern Saw-whet Owls every hundred feet or so but alas, no joy. We did have four Western Screech-Owls calling for a while at one stop on the way back up the trail. We then headed on down the Canyon Trail, stopping in the meadow located between Indian Creek Trail and Stevens Creek Nature Trail where we heard a distant NORTHERN PYGMY-OWL calling southwest of us. Later, at the Indian Creek Trail junction we heard another Northern Pygmy-Owl calling some distance southeast of us. We continued on down the Canyon Trail for perhaps another quarter of a mile with only one Western Screech-Owl heard. At this point it was starting to get light so we started back up the trail to to be able to see the Pileated Woodpeckers having breakfast at the Sag Pond. As we headed up the trail Frank spotted two Great Horned Owls perched in the top of a tall evergreen north of us and as we watched both birds flew down, singly, to the southwest and out of sight. Later as we neared the overlook with the Coyote sign a PILEATED WOODPECKER was heard calling to the west southwest. Unfortunately the bird called but once and was not seen. We then spent some 30 to 40 minutes, starting at about 7:50 AM, stretched out along the Sag Pond in ever diminishing hopes that a Pileated Woodpecker might desire breakfast. Ultimately Frank and I left as Peggy, Pat and Roland headed back down the trail, this time with a scope, for a little daylight birding. Take care, Bob Reiling, 10:53 AM, 1/31/03 _______________________________________________ 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]]