[SBB] Monte Bello Gate 5

["Garth Harwood" <[[email protected]]>]

The warm turn in the weather has brought out the song in many species this week. In my visits to Monte Bello OSP's Gate 5 pond this week I have heard singing House and Purple Finches, Oak Titmice, Bewick's Wrens and Hutton's Vireos this week; a Varied Thrush sang there last week.

 

Today, 2/10/2006, a Red-breasted Nuthatch joined the chorus, the first I'd heard here since late October. It was in the conifer stand just west of the pond, near the Page Mill/Skyline Blvd. intersection. Yesterday 2/9 a Pileated Woodpecker called from down-canyon near the Stevens Cr. Nature Trail/Canyon Trail junction.

 

Back on 2/4, a minimum of 286 Band-tailed Pigeons converged on the remaining Madrone berries near the pond, the highest concentration I've seen anywhere this year.

 

--Garth Harwood

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