[SBB] Bishops

[Al Eisner <[[email protected]]>]

   This morning, arriving at the Crittenden Lane bridge over Stevens Creek
to start a walk upstream, I heard an unfamiliar call from the creek bed.
I soon found the bird:  a brilliant male Orange Bishop, perched in the
reeds.  Bill Bousman caught up with me near the lone euc, and said he
also had one Bishop near the bridge -- only it was an immature/female
type, which he took to be a juvenile because of the fresh, crisp plumage.
(He has a photograph.)  On my way out later, I saw what must have been
this same bird, which was rather bright and did have those plumage
characteristics; I didn't not the adult again.  Both of my sightings
were just downstream of the bridge; the presumed youngster then flew
farther downstream.
   I think Bill can give a fuller report of the riparian area than I
can.  I'll just mention two heard-only birds that he may not have
encountered:  a Downy Woodpecker, and a Wren (north of the lone euc)
which I think was probably a House Wren.
								Al Eisner

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