Re: [SBB] San Antonio Ranch screech owl - directions

["mary keitelman" <[[email protected]]>]

hi Laurie:

Directions below:


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Hi Ashok,

Sorry to hear that. Hope you do have the right tree. Here's another take
on the directions posted yesterday.

The owl sometimes hunkers down into the cavity in the tree bark. If you
walk away and approach back later it may get back on the perch.
Here's another set of directions posted yesterday:

Best.
Vivek

All:

Tuesday, May 23, at 9 AM the Western Screech-Owl was still snoozing in
the Oak at Rancho San Antonio County Park.  To paraphrase Cynthia Berg's
instructions: Go past the tennis courts to the split in the trail, and
take the paved road to the right.  Continue to the very end of the wire
fence.  At that final wooden post look up a dozen feet and you should
see him snoozing in the open.  Bob and I wandered by later, and he was
still there at 11:15.

Frank Vanslager

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Look for Rancho San Antonio on the web.
Bascially take 280 south, then exit Foothill Expwy North/West (i.e.
towards Stevens Creek Park). Take first road on the right. Cristo Rey.
There's a roundabout. Follow signs for Rancho San Antonio. Park
entrance is on the left. After entering, turn right and follow the
road to the parking lot furthest to the north. There look for the
trail that goes over a bridge to Deer Hollow Farm.

The tree with the owl is not the dead tree with broken off top (that's
the Acron Woodpecker tree mentioned below) but the next big tree on
the left of the road. Its left trunk is live but the right trunk is dead
and that's where the owl is.
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for two days in a row, I've seen a western screech owl at rancho san
antonio, around 3-4 in the afternoon.

Location:
if you park in the main lot(s) and head towards the farm -- after the
tennis courts the trail splits into paved road and the dirt path.
Take the paved road towards the farm.  about 3/4 of the way before the
trails meet up again, directly to the left of the road (tree is about
2' from the edge of the pavement) there's a partially dead tree and
the owl is sitting about 9' off the ground.  This is the first tree
AFTER the dead tree that the Acorn woodpeckers normally hang out in.
Owl sits in the 'far' side of the tree so go past the tree and turn
around to see him/her.  very photogenic.
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>From: "Donna Heim" <[[email protected]]>
>To: "'mary keitelman'" <[[email protected]]>
>Subject: RE: [SBB] directions for screech owl ?  Bobcat is easy...
>Date: Tue, 30 May 2006 23:29:36 -0700
>
>Hi Mary,
>Did you ever get any useful directions?  If so, I'd love to get the
>directions to the screech owl.  I tried following Bob Reiling's paraphrased
>directions to the oak nesting tree, but they led me to a bay tree instead!
>
>I did see the bobcat along the way, though.  You go to Rancho San Antonio,
>and park in the last parking lot, which has restrooms.  Then cross over the
>brown bridge at the end of the lot, over the stream, and turn right,
>following the wide path, which *roughly* parallels the stream.  Very
>quickly, in perhaps 1 minute, there will be a very large flat field on your
>left, with grass and weeds.  I saw the bobcat about half way between the
>picnic area and the tennis courts on the left side of the path, about 15
>feet from the path.  If he wanders into the taller grass near the back of
>the field you could miss him.  I hope this helps. You may want to bring a
>camera, since he's so cooperative and tame when he's by the path.
>Good luck,
>Donna Heim
>

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Mary



>From: LAURIE BECHTLER <[[email protected]]>
>Reply-To: LAURIE BECHTLER <[[email protected]]>
>To: [[email protected]]
>Subject: [SBB] San Antonio Ranch screech owl
>Date: Thu, 15 Jun 2006 11:11:27 -0700 (PDT)
>
>Hi,
>
>Could someone (re)post brief directions to the location of the screech owl?
>I have misplaced that posting and haven't been able to get out there yet.
>
>Thanks!
>Laurie Bechtler
>


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