[SBB] Calero/Morgan Hill CBC, Coyote Creek, Metcalf Rd to Golf Course Access Rd

Although birding was slow along Coyote Creek from Metcalf Rd south to the back entrance road to the Coyote Creek Golf Course, Pat Kenny managed to re find the AMERICAN REDSTART in a bush on the east side of the paved path 140 yds downstream of the Sycamore Rest Stop (located just downstream of the Golf Course access road). It was just another AMRE for Pat and Roland Kenner who had seen the same bird a couple weeks earlier but it was a really nice year bird for me. A few minutes earlier as we were having lunch at the Sycamore Rest Stop a PRAIRIE FALCON flew in and perched for several minutes in the top of one of the Sycamores a hundred yards away before deciding to fly back over our heads heading downstream. We had also been fortunate earlier in being able get good flying views of a couple AMERICAN BITTERN and of two pair of WOOD DUCKS (numbers way down from previous years). A nicely marked male HAIRY WOODPECKER well seen just south of Metcalf Road was somewhat unexpected while DOWNY WOODPECKERS seemed more prevalent than usual with at least nine seen.