[SBB] A walk in Arastradero Preserve

[Mark Bohrer <[[email protected]]>]

I used to bicycle past Palo Alto's Arastradero Preserve to climb into the 
Santa Cruz Mountains every Saturday, never suspecting the birds and 
wildlife nearby. I took a short walk there Saturday, March 17.

I saw all the raptors previously reported here: a juvenile Cooper's hawk 
hunting just south of Arasteradero Road and west of the parking lot, an 
American kestrel kiting over the hills south of the road (both seen from 
Meadowlark trail), red-tailed hawks soaring north of the road and parking 
lot, a white-tailed kite hunting lower down in the same airspace, a 
northern flicker who flew across the road to avoid the Cooper's hawk.

There were also rock doves preening and roosting on a dead tree south of 
the road. At one point a group of four Anna's hummingbirds whipped by. I 
heard the broken-accordion calls of several acorn woodpeckers, but didn't 
see any.

Some golden-crowned sparrows foraged on the ground near the start of the 
Corte Madera trail south of Arastradero Road.

'Gator lizard watching me (EF 400mm f/4 DO IS):
http://tinyurl.com/eqnst

Fly resting on a mushroom: http://tinyurl.com/fu75v

Wildflowers (EF 70-300 f/4.5-5.6 DO IS on 25mm extension ring, handheld):
http://tinyurl.com/htslp

Rock doves lurking: http://tinyurl.com/hq79t
Red-tailed hawks soaring: http://tinyurl.com/fj93a
White-tailed kite hunting: http://tinyurl.com/fqzr2



Mark Bohrer
Mountain and Desert Photography
www.mountain-and-desert.com
(408) 866 9405

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