Re: [SBB] [pen-bird] update: Pgymy Nuthatches, Barn Owl in Menlo Park

["Kris Olson" <[[email protected]]>]

An update to Tate's sightings of owls and nuthatches.

Tonight about 8:10pm, I got our visiting Swedish cousin to see the 2 barn
owls. We saw one in the cut out of the palm tree and then another flew in,
making little clicking noises. It had a whiter face.

The man across the street said that the fly out at 8:30pm.

Yesterday, about 5:30pm, I swung by, saw 1 owl in the same tree cutout (back
in its den, not very obvious at first-- I walked back by the mail box to
peer up at the farther palm to see the bird -- we did the same tonight.)
much better view during the day!

I also saw/heard 1 Pygmy Nuthatch fluttering around the palm on the left (of
the two at 303 Laurel)-- did not see it enter or emerge from a hole, it was
just suddenly there and flew off.

Kris Olson



-----Original Message-----
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Sent: Monday, May 01, 2006 5:48 PM
To: [[email protected]]; [[email protected]]
Subject: [pen-bird] update: Pgymy Nuthatches, Barn Owl in Menlo Park

Sorry that this update couldn't come sooner.   Last Wed. am  (4.26), we saw 
two Pgymy Nuthatches trying frantically -- and to no avail -- to  get into 
their nest cavities in the palm tree on Laurel Ave., Menlo Park [we
reported 
seeing two pairs of the nuthatches at that palm on 4.25]:  a male  House
Sparrow 
(possibly two)  blocked access to the hole and swooped  down onto the 
nuthatches every time they arrived at the hole entrance.  We  wanted to keep
checking; 
saw no nuthatches or sparrows two days later; then, on  Sun. 4.30, we saw 
House Sparrow nesting activity at two holes in the tree: males  carrying
nesting 
materials, female inside entrance of one cavity.   No sign  of the
nuthatches.
    We'd like to know whether the nuthatches have any chance  of starting 
over this year.
    Also on the morning of 4.26, a Laurel Ave. resident who  lives very
close 
to the palm where the Barn Owls were nesting informed us that  he found the 
baby (who must have fledged earlier in the week -- we heard its
vocalizations 
from the nest cavity after midnight on
 Sun, 4. 23) injured and bleeding, late in the evening of 4.25, in his  
backyard and turned it over to Peninsula Humane.  Update yesterday: the owl
had to 
be euthanized because of the severity of its injuries.
     Tate and Curtis Snyder
    


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