From south-bay-birds-bounces+south-bay-birds-archive=[[email protected]] Mon May 19 14:34:12 2003 Received: from www.plaidworks.com (localhost [127.0.0.1]) by plaidworks.com (8.12.9/8.12.9) with ESMTP id h4JLVua2029232 for <[[email protected]]>; Mon, 19 May 2003 14:31:56 -0700 (PDT) Received: from mail07a.vwh1.net (mail07a.vwh1.net [209.238.9.57]) by plaidworks.com (8.12.9/8.12.9) with SMTP id h4JLUafF029186 for <[[email protected]]>; Mon, 19 May 2003 14:30:40 -0700 (PDT) Received: from www.hiddenvilla.org (209.238.206.251) by mail07a.vwh1.net (RS ver 1.0.80vs) with SMTP id 0258439831 for <[[email protected]]>; Mon, 19 May 2003 17:30:32 -0400 (EDT) Message-ID: <004d01c31e4d$9c038fa0$[[email protected]]> From: "Garth Harwood" <[[email protected]]> To: "SBB" <[[email protected]]> Date: Mon, 19 May 2003 14:28:36 -0700 MIME-Version: 1.0 X-Priority: 3 X-MSMail-Priority: Normal X-Mailer: Microsoft Outlook Express 5.00.2615.200 X-MimeOLE: Produced By Microsoft MimeOLE V5.00.2615.200 X-Loop-Detect: 1 Content-Type: text/plain; charset="iso-8859-1" X-Content-Filtered-By: Mailman/MimeDel 2.1.2+ Subject: [SBB] Upper Stevens Cr & Monte Bello 5/19/03 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]] Content-Transfer-Encoding: 8bit X-MIME-Autoconverted: from quoted-printable to 8bit by plaidworks.com id h4JLVua2029232 All, Things were pretty quiet in bright warm weather in the high country this morning. I walked down the Grizzly Flat trail in upper Stevens Creek County Park, making a loop of the two parallel versions of this trail. I listened carefully for Mountain Quail, having heard them from this point last year at about this time, but nothing doing. At least the Pileated Woodpeckers sounded off briefly to show that they are still present (this was somewhere near the base of the trail.) A couple of Golden-crowned Kinglets were laughing shrilly in the treetops on the way down, and a Winter Wren sang from a moist pocket about 2/3 of the way down. Near Skyline Blvd, I was watching a female Black-headed Grosbeak carry nest material when her mate flew over to join her. They copulated briefly, she holding onto the long strand of plant material throughout. Brown Creepers were about in good numbers, with one seen feeding fledged young. A couple of Western Tanagers and a couple of Black-throated Gray Warblers were heard but not seen along the route. At Monte Bello OSP I checked out the summit area of the White Oak Trail, where I have often found Chipping Sparrows in the coyote brush clumps. There were at least 2 Chipping Sparrows present once again, as well as one each Lazuli Bunting, BT Gray Warbler, Pacific-slope Flycatcher, and Ash-throated Flycatcher. At the parking lot, I was surprised to see a silent group of 5 Wild Turkeys walk by, less than 100 feet from the restrooms, at 11:30 AM. --Garth Harwood _______________________________________________ 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]]