[SBB] Coyote Creek south of Tasman

[Mike Rogers <[[email protected]]>]

All,

I spent 2.5 hours yesterday morning 6/18/06 birding along the east side 
of Coyote Creek between Montague Expressway and Tasman Drive, hoping for 
eastern vagrants. Ended up with no vagrants, but there was a fair amount 
of breeding activity. At least two of six GREAT BLUE HERON nest 
platforms were still active, with two large young each. These nests are 
about halfway between Cottonwood Dr and Sycamore Drive this year, just 
over the block boundary into atlas block 9540 instead of in nearby block 
9535 as in the past (a nest platform at the end of Cottonwood Drive was 
still intact). I also found a TREE SWALLOW nest (previous confirmations 
in this block from CCFS), NORTHERN ROUGH-WINGED SWALLOWS feeding young, 
DOWNY WOODPECKER nest with young and recently fledged young, WESTERN 
SCRUB-JAY feeding young, etc. A juvenile DARK-EYED JUNCO along the creek 
was already independent, but a singing male in the office complex across 
McCarthy Blvd suggests that breeding is still ongoing (although we have 
yet to confirm breeding in block 9540). Several WHITE-BREASTED 
NUTHATCHES may have been part of a family group, but were too secretive 
for me to confirm breeding evidence. These birds have been at this odd 
urban location just south of Sycamore Drive for some time now, with 
records on 17 July 2004 (Al Eisner), 14 Aug 2004 (me), 29 Oct 2004 
(Steve Rottenborn), and 6 Nov 2005 (Steve Rottenborn). Three 
PACIFIC-SLOPE FLYCATCHERS were singing along the creek as well.

Mike Rogers


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