From: Anne Blandin <[[email protected]]>
Date: May 7, 2005 11:22:58 PM PDT
To: [[email protected]]
Subject: [EBB Sightings] Gambel's Quail-Mines Road, Santa Clara County
Report by Gary Fregien, Sacramento Audubon, while accompanying the Mt.
Diablo Audubon Society on their annual Mines Road trip.
At approximately 3:45 PM this day, Saturday, May 7, 2005 along Mines
Road in Santa Clara County, while driving north, I observed an adult
male Gambel's Quail in plain sight at a distance of about 12 feet.
The specific location is Mines Road at 19.5 miles south of the Del
Valle Road junction. This is within 1/10 mile south of Post Mile 24
SCC (seen from the northbound lane). A white newspaper box, with the
numbers 51705 is on the west side of the road just south of the mile
marker. There is also a ranch road leading west at the paper box,
with a metal gate covered with plastic yellow sunflowers. Also from
the northbound lane, but within 1/10 mile south of the paper box,
there is a paddle marker numbered 0955, immediately before a sharp
turn to the left. The bird was seen on the west side of the road,
about 25-30 feet south of the paper box. It was perched on a dead and
down shrub with bare branches, which is immediately off the road
shoulder.
As I am unfamiliar with Internet listing protocol in this area, I
would appreciate assistance in getting this message posted at the
appropriate websites. Of course, I would also appreciate word of any
subsequent sightings of this bird. I am very curious about other
sightings of this bird this far north. Are there any Santa Clara
County records for Gambel's Quail? I will not be returning to the
Sacramento area until Monday AM, but I will check email during the day
tomorrow (Sunday). My email address is:
[[email protected]]
or I can respond to phone messages on Monday at (916) 451-2767.
Thanks for your help.