[SBB] Pygmy Nuthatch nest on San Francisquito Creek

[Richard T Stovel <[[email protected]]>]

   On the Palo Alto Summer Bird Count, a PYGMY NUTHATCH was
busy making trips to the same nest hole that I found on the count in
the summer of 2003  on the Stanford side of the creek, i.e., Santa Clara
County (see directions below).

  This vicinity was quite birdy at 7:00 am Saturday, with the following
birds in evidence
PACIFIC SLOPE FLYCATCHER
BLACK-HEADED GROSBEAK
BULLOCK'S ORIOLE (at least 4)
BROWN CREEPER
and numerous more common birds.

   Also, near the intersection of Palm Drive and Arboretum Rd. on the
Stanford campus is a RED-TAILED HAWK nest with two young
in it.  The nest is fairly easy to find on the southwest corner, but
seeing into it is not.  email me if you want clues.

     -   Dick


  Directions to the PYNU nest:  The Stanford West apartments are along
Sandhill Rd. south/west of Stanford Shopping Center.  Behind the complex
a bike bridge crosses San Francisquito Creek into Menlo Park, near the end
of the complex that is closest to El Camino Real (cross street off Sand Hill
Rd is Durand Way). From the bike bridge, take the footpath upstream on the
Stanford side about 150 yards to a dog-doo station (a green
post which dispenses paraphernalia).  About 20 yards farther upstream and
about 12 feet inside the fence are 3 large eucalyptus trees.  The center one
has a large truncated branch projecting toward the creek at about the 20
foot
level.  The PYNU nest cavity is in this branch on the side facing upstream.
-- 

Richard Stovel  [[email protected]]




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