[SBB] Shoreline Falcon Fest/Alpine Pond, Nov. 11-12

[Kay Partelow <[[email protected]]>]

Hello Birders,

 

Last Saturday's rain didn't dampen our spirits while Cherie Long and I led a MROSD walk at Steven's Creek Shoreline OSP.  Nice surprises included a trilogy of falcons:  A MERLIN perched on a power tower was viewed from the Kite Flying Area parking lot; a flyby of two PEREGRINE FALCONS that emptied the power lines of pigeons; an AMERICAN KESTREL perched near Crittenden Marsh; and a second MERLIN sighting--dashing behind the Moffett structures.  Other interesting observations included a lone BURROWING OWL, a soaring GOLDEN EAGLE, and three separate LOGGERHEAD SHRIKE sightings.

 

Sunday at Alpine Pond off Skyline:  a good day for woodpeckers.  NORTHERN FLICKER and ACORN WOODPECKER are usually present, but a RED-BREASTED SAPSUCKER and HAIRY WOODPECKER were a nice treat.  Four VARIED THRUSH were perched and calling in the "osprey snag".  Drama of the day:  Enjoying the antics of a TOWNSEND'S WARBLER at warbler-neck heights--1/2 hour later, a perched MERLIN devouring a similar looking Townsend's Warbler, sending yellow feathers down to Alpine Pond.  Purely poignant.  One final Falcon sighting:  A single PEREGRINE seen near Midtown in Palo Alto zipping across Middlefield Road Sunday a.m.

 

Good birding!

 

Kay Partelow

Palo Alto

 

 

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