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It was nice to be perched above that cold-looking fog layer today, for most 
of the day anyway. Between owling and daytime counting I walked nearly 13 
miles...ouch!

My best birds were all at Los Trancos Open Space Preserve (LTOSP). Along Lost 
Creek Trail I found an adult male HERMIT WARBLER in a mixed flock, 3 RED 
CROSSBILLS, and I heard a nearby PILEATED WOODPECKER. (I found 8 more CROSSBILLS 
at first light in some Douglas-firs along Skyline Blvd, 0.3 mile south of Page 
Mill Road.)

I found two flocks of WILD TURKEYS -- 24 along the upper part of Trapper's 
Trail Fire Road at Foothills Park (FP), and 8 along Page Mill Trial in LTOSP. 
Single RED-BREASTED NUTHATCHES were along Page Mill Road near address 4022, and 
along Lost Creek Trail in LTOSP. Two GOLDEN-CROWNED KINGLETS and a NOR. 
PYGMY-OWL were along Los Trancos Creek at FP.

AM. ROBINS have seemed well below par this season, but I was quite surprised 
to find only 4 (!) in a whole day of forest-dominated birding. It is not often 
that a tally of VARIED THRUSHES can eclipse that of Robins, but that was the 
case day with my 15 VARIEDS, all at LTOSP. A highlight for the day was 
extended views at close range of a male perched in the wide open in a bright gap in 
the forest along Franciscan Loop Trail. What a stunning bird! Too seldom do I 
get to oogle one at length, without forest shadows, twigs, foliage, and their 
furtive behavior dampening the show.

David Suddjian
Capitola, CA
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