Re: [SBB] Stevens Creek

[Rosalie Lefkowitz <[[email protected]]>]

I visited Stevens Creek this mid-morning from La Avenida to Crittenden 
as Al did yesterday, but from the usual west side levee.  I was much 
luckier with warblers than he had been.  I was most pleased to see his 
heard-only BLACK-THROATED GRAY, a female, on both my way out and back.  
It was foraging with Townsend's Warblers and Yellow Rumps in the line 
of trees across from the vegetable garden on the edge of the RV park.

Rosalie Lefkowitz


On Nov 29, 2006, at 2:23 PM, Al Eisner wrote:

>     Today I visited the east side of Stevens Creek between Crittenden
> and La Avenida, hoping to find at least one of the previously-lingering
> Warblers.  No luck with either.  I heard a call from high on the other
> rear of the creekside cottonwoods, near the Moffett housing, which was
> a candidate for Black-throated Gray, but it was too muffled to be sure.
> And there were no Chickadees in its area (the only one I had was heard
> from inside the Moffett wall).  I did flush a WILSON'S SNIPE from this
> stretch of creek -- this is a species we typically get in very small
> numbers (if at all) on the Palo Alto CBC.  Most surprising was a
> (heard-only, presumably continuing) HOUSE WREN near the lone 
> eucalyptus.
> [It would be neat if this stayed aorund for the CBC -- it has been even
> rarer on the count than Wilson's or Black-throated Gray Warbler, but
> any of the three would be an excellent count bird.]  Also on this walk
> I found about 5 HERMIT THRUSHes, and a variety of the regular species.
>
> 							     Al Eisner
>
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