[SBB] Santa Teresa Park

[Janna Pauser <[[email protected]]>]

We did the Stile Ranch/Fortini trail loop at Santa Teresa Park again this 
morning. Three Bullocks Orioles were seen from the parking lot. A male 
Allen's Hummingbird was perched on a Toyon a short way up the trail. 
Several singing Rufous-crowned Sparrows seen here and seven more seen at 
other locations along the 2.8 mile hike. Just over the first ridge I 
spotted my first Rock Wren perched on a rock from  quite a distance. Three 
W. Kingbirds flew by here. A pair of W. Bluebirds were near a  nest box, 
and Violet Green Swallows at another box. Over the second ridge I found a 
second Rock Wren with very distinctive white supercillium and dark eye 
line. I watched him as he bobbed on the orange lichen covered rock on the 
ridge. Approaching the back of IBM Research facility I had a third very 
pale Rock Wren on a rock right in front of me. It was singing with a stick 
in its beak. I know it sounds impossible.  It finally flew off when I 
got  within 8'. A singing Black-headed Grosbeak was heard in the grove of 
tree's here. Later, my husband Lee, who was photographing wildflowers, 
mentioned a possible Lazuli Bunting perched on the fence near these trees. 
I heard Wilson's Warblers in two separate Valley Oaks near the creek. Four 
Ash throated Flycatchers were heard or found along the trail on the second 
half of the hike. A Cal. Thrasher, Huttons Vireo and another Black headed 
Grosbeak were heard only along the creek. A second pair of W. Bluebirds 
were near a ranch house and Red-tailed Hawks nesting in a Redwood tree 
here. A Coopers Hawk, 2 Am. Kestrels, Violet Green Swallows, Barn and Rough 
winged Swallows all seen flying over open fields of golden grass. A pair of 
noisy W. Kingbirds were on a telephone pole near a ranch house and another 
pair at San Vicente chasing after an Am. Kestrel. All along the trail we 
found many wildflowers, one of them quite rare.

Janna Pauser
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