[SBB] Monte Bello Gate 5 today 3/6/2006

["Garth Harwood" <[[email protected]]>]

Things were quiet, between all the storms, at the little pond below Monte Bello OSP's Gate 5 today, March 6 2006. I was much cheered to see that several hummingbirds have held on through everything so far, including the 3 inches of snow I found there last Friday morning. A surprise among them was a female Selasphorus hummer collecting coyote bush down for a nest lining. 

 

I wonder, can this breeding confirmation serve as a reliable indicator that this bird was an Allen's? (Are there, in fact, any breeding records for Rufous Hummingbird in the county?)

 

The only other bird of special interest today was a single Sora posing sweetly atop the battered remnants of last year's cattails.

 

--Garth Harwood

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