[SBB] posting for Mike Mammoser - HAFL and NAWA at Ed Levin Park

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

SBB'ers - posting for Mike Mammoser, who will be back on SBB very soon 
now...

On Monday, 17 Apr 06, I visited Ed Levin Park in the foothills of 
Milpitas. Looking for owls, I was able to find a single BARN OWL 
roosting in the Elm Picnic Area, but failed at Long-eared Owl. I decided 
to check the eucalyptus along the edge of the golf course here and 
managed to scare up 3 CHIPPING SPARROWS off the lawn. A MERLIN flashed 
by overhead and then dove on something by the entrance road.
As I worked up the path towards the northeast corner of the picnic area, 
I heard a persistently calling HAMMOND’S FLYCATCHER, which led me to a 
visual contact in an oak tree. When this bird moved to an adjacent oak, 
it led me to a flock of warblers. This flock was composed mainly of 
YELLOW-RUMPEDS but also included an ORANGE-CROWNED, a couple WILSON’S, 
and a NASHVILLE WARBLER.
A CASPIAN TERN was working over Sandy Wool Lake the entire time that I 
was there.
A walk up to the sycamore draw above the lake produced nothing of note, 
so I returned to the Elm Picnic Area and picked up my year PACIFIC-SLOPE 
FLYCATCHER.
Michael Mammoser


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