[SBB] Monte Bello

[Bill Bousman <[[email protected]]>]

Folks:

This morning, 3/11/2005, I made a loop at Monte Bello, starting from the 
Skid Road entrance.  I started early so I could listen to the owls.  I 
heard 1-2  NORTHERN SAW-WHET and about 8 WESTERN SCREECH-OWLS before first 
light.  With dawn, two pairs of GREAT HORNED OWLS started calling and a 
NORTHERN PYGMY-OWL gave single toots.

Before sunrise I started up the Indian Creek Trail from the Canyon Trail 
junction.  About 6:30 am I heard a PILEATED WOODPECKER in the canyon call 
once.  Above the big switchback, before the trail joins the chaparral 
field, I had a pair of RUFOUS-CROWNED SPARROWS in the grass above the 
trail.  I don't think they are there every year.

I returned to Page Mill by the Buena Vista Trail.  I heard one RED 
CROSSBILL call over the sag pond, but found none in the pines at the top of 
the Canyon Trail.  A couple of VIOLET-GREEN SWALLOWS appear to be on 
territory there.  Returning to the Skid Road Trail I found two WARBLING 
VIREOS singing in the broadleaved evergreen forest.

Coming home, a pair of NOR. ROUGH-WINGED SWALLOWS appear to have returned 
to nest holes at the I-280 overpass over Page Mill Road.

Bill Bousman
Santa Clara County records compiler 

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