Re: [SBB] Pileated Woodpecker and Northern Pygmy Owl at Wunderlich

[Ashutosh Sinha <[[email protected]]>]

I have uploaded few digiscoped pics of Pygmy Owl and Pileated Woodpecker
on yahoo photo. You can use following URL to see it

http://pg.photos.yahoo.com/ph/ashubirdguy/album?.dir=/88f0&.src=ph&.tok=phIyzGDB_ZgscSxw

Pics are not very good but good enough for id purpose.

-Ashutosh




Ron Wolf wrote:
> During the Palo Alto Bird Count Saturday, Ashutosh Sinha and I came 
> upon a pileated woodpecker and a northern pygmy owl at Wunderlich 
> County Park, which is located along Hwy 84 south of Woodside. We got 
> good long looks at both birds on the Bear Gulch Trail in a area of 
> old redwoods that had never been logged.
> 
> The pileated woodpecker was on the ground, tearing apart a badly decayed log.
> The log was so soft that we couldn't hear the woodpecker drumming. 
> After about 10 minutes of watching this show, we tried to inch closer 
> to get photos and spooked the bird, which flew a few yards off and 
> climbed the trunk of a redwood.
> 
> A couple of hundred yards farther down the trail, we found the pygmy 
> owl sitting  on the bare limb of a redwood about 10 feet off the 
> ground right by the side fo the trail.
> 
> As unusual as it may be to get such good looks, there's reason to 
> believe these birds are regulars in the area. Wunderlich is popular 
> among people who ride horses. (There's a private stable by the 
> parking lot and ranger station.) Two people on horses whom we met on 
> the trail -- not hardcore birders -- asked us if we had seen the 
> pileated woodpecker or pygmy owls. Both birds are apparently local 
> celebrities well known to area residents who ride that trail.
> 
> Sadly, there's no distinctive feature along that stretch of trail to 
> pinpoint the exact locations of the sightinge. It's 1.4 miles from 
> the parking lot up the Bear Gulch  Trail to the junction of the 
> Redwood Trail. We saw the pygmy owl about 1.0 miles from the ranger 
> station and saw the pileated woodpecker about 1.2 miles from the 
> ranger station.
> 
> BTW, the main entrance to Wunderlich -- which has never been well 
> marked -- is closed for bridge repairs. There's an alternative 
> entrance about 100 yeard south that is even less adequately marked. 
> There's nothing more than a paper sign on a saw horse to mark the 
> temporary entrance.
> 
> 
> -- Ron Wolf
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