[SBB] Charcoal Road

["Roland Kenner" <[[email protected]]>]

This morning about 8:30 Pat Kenny and I started from Skyline and walked down 
Charcoal Road to Table Mountain and then on down to Stevens Creek.  It was a 
cold morning (ice on the puddles where we parked).  Madrone berries must be 
near their prime judging by the AMERICAN ROBINs, VARIED THRUSHes, and a few 
CEDAR WAX-WINGS.  PURPLE FINCHes and BAND-TAILED PIGEONs apparently eat the 
berries too.  A MERLIN was atop a fir tree, and RED-BREASTED NUTHATCHes were 
seen or heard several times.

On the way down, above Table Mountain, we heard PILEATED WOODPECKER calls 
and drumming.  On the way back up at about the same place, we heard two 
close-by Pileateds calling and a male flew up near us for a moment.  We 
tracked sounds of serious excavation to brief looks at another Pileated; we 
were unable to tell the sex of this bird, so it might have been the same 
male seen earlier.  This was in the vicinity of the fork in Charcoal Road 
about one mile from Skyline and a little less than a mile above Table 
Mountain.

Roland Kenner 


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