[SBB] Dippers at Low Elevations: the Los Gatos Challenge

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

Folks:

Speaking of American Dippers at low elevations, they have been seen 
intermittently along Los Gatos Creek in Los Gatos at about 360 feet.  James 
Cooper commented that in the 1850s he saw dippers nesting at a "milldam" in 
Los Gatos, which I assume was Forbes Mill.  In the last year, Lisa Myers 
has reported dippers a couple of times from the creek not far from here.  I 
was looking at this habitat from the pedestrian bridge that crosses both 
Hwy 17 and Los Gatos Creek at Los Gatos last summer and a pedestrian 
casually remarked to me "Oh, do you see the dipper?  He's often here."  The 
Los Gatos challenge is to see if these birds are (still) nesting nearby and 
are there year round, or whether the birds that have been seen recently are 
post-breeding dispersants.

Bill Bousman
Santa Clara County records compiler 


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