[SBB] American Redstart and Ferruginous Hawk continue - and Elk?

[Dave Kiehl <[[email protected]]>]

 The Ferruginous Hawk was found sitting on a sprinkler head in the field on the northeast corner of Richmond Ave. and Santa Teresa Blvd.  In the same field, a flock of more than 30 Killdeer were foraging.  A Loggerhead Shrike was one of the wire birds along Richmond above a mixed flock of blackbirds.

Along ST Blvd between Bailey Ave and Richmond, Several Red-tailed Hawks, a Northern Harrier and two White-tailed Kites were also seen.

Along the Coyote Creek Trail in the same area as previously reported, the American Redstart was very cooperative, at one point lighting in a small, bare-branched tree within twenty feet of where we were standing - unfortunately, a gaggle of bikers chattered by, flushing it to one of the large sycamores west of the trail.

At the Coyote Creek Golf Course pond nearest the back entry road, a Belted Kingfisher was flying low over the water and a Spotted Sandpiper was bobbing in the grass near the water's edge. In club house parking lot, a Great-tailed Grackle was strutting on the curb and on the ridge  across the freeway, on the power tower directly east, two Golden Eagles were perched.  During the next ten minutes, we found two additional Golden Eagles soaring above the ridge.

Also, we saw what appeared to be a herd of maybe twenty Elk, farther north near the top of the ridge.  The beasts were dark beige with lighter tan rumps - much too large and the wrong color for Black-tailed Mule Deer; the wrong shape for cattle or horses (plus no visible tail).  Does anyone know if such creatures actually roam the hills there?  perhaps a privately owned herd?

As we left the golf course, an American Kestrel gave us the evil eye from its perch on a telephone wire.

Along Bailey Avenue on our way to Coyote Reservoir, a beautiful Red-shouldered Hawk swept by at eye-level.  We were unable to locate the Bald Eagle at Calero Res. but did find an Osprey not far from the dam after we left.

Penny and Dave Kiehl

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