[SBB] A few other birds...

[Chuq Von Rospach <[[email protected]]>]

Realized I forgot to mention a few other birds this week.

While up at steven's creek dam this week, I distinctly heard multiple  
scrub jays chattering. Some time spent watching the brush near the  
spillway finally showed me the glorious blue bird flying around, and  
no black head, so it was not a stellars. While tracking my Loch Ness,  
I also had one great blue heron that flew up from further up the  
lake, found a thermal and soared up to a few hundred feet, then flew  
off in the general direction of the bay.

Around my building at Apple (on valley green, not on campus), we had  
our first pair of american robins show up; assumed pair because they  
were foraging together; we also currently have a dark eyed junco of  
the "pale adult" flavor (sibley's page 425) living in the trees  
around the building, perhaps a couple.

I've yet to see either Robins or Orioles in my home neighborhood; the  
Robins in Cupertino seem to be late but I don't have firm data on  
that. The adult breeding colored black-headed grosbeak has moved on,  
haven't seen it in a couple of days; last time we had one of those in  
the yard was 2003, and it's about 3 weeks later than the previous  
sighting was.  Laurie was also out in the yard this week when the  
neighborhood Coopers Hawk (nesting in Central Park, we believe, been  
around for a few years) wandered in and invited a house sparrow to  
lunch. It is eerie to see how quickly a yard goes completely silent  
when the raptors float in....


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Chuq Von Rospach, Architech
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