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[SBB] Roadrunner & Sage Sparrow along San Antonio Rd



All,
 
This morning as Frank Vanslager and I were trying to hear bird songs over the radio "noise" coming from a work crew near the cattle guard on Mines Road north of the junction between San Antonio Valley Road and Del Puerto Canyon Road Frank heard a ROADRUNNER singing (if you can call it that) on the ridge north and east of us.  At one point I felt we might of had two Roadrunners singing but in any case we eventually saw one Roadrunner as it flew down from a conifer located about 150 feet east of the road and 100 yards north of the cattle guard.  Shortly after returning to the cattle guard we had a silent SAGE SPARROW perched in the bare top of a tree located near the road and about 100 feet south of the cattle guard.  We watched the SASP for several minutes as it flew from bush to bush to tree etc.  A LARK SPARROW was in the same bush at one point.  Near the Fire Station, east side of the road, Frank spotted a nice male LAWRENCE'S GOLDFINCH and earlier we had a LEWIS'S WOODPECKER in a bare snag about a quarter of a mile south of the junction.  We then decided to work Del Puerto Canyon Road to the county line (looking for Phainopepla).  Just after 11305 - 11315 Del Puerto Canyon Road as we stopped to check out a marshy area (nice pullout on the right) we had another Roadrunner singing on the south side of the road.  We also picked up TRICOLORED BLACKBIRD in the marsh.  WOOD DUCK and GREEN HERON were spotted in a couple different ponds along San Antonio Valley Road.  
 
Take care,
Bob Reiling 
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