Re: [SBB] Eurasian Collared-Dove in south valley

[Ginger Langdon-Lassagne <[[email protected]]>]

Rick and everyone,

There is a consistent location for Eurasian Collared-Doves that I  
have not seen mentioned on this list previously. Happy Hollow Park  
and Zoo (at Kelly Park in San Jose; on Senter Rd. at Story Rd.):

http://www.happyhollowparkandzoo.org/

This small zoo has an aviary that includes some doves and there are  
consistently a few feral (or possibly wild?) E C-D's outside the  
enclosure. Originally, I reported this to the keepers, thinking they  
were escapees from the zoo's population; however, the zoo staff  
claims all their doves are present and accounted for, and the out-of- 
aviary doves are all visitors from elsewhere.

The best time to view these doves is after the AM  preschool field- 
trips have ended (noonish), but before elementary school gets out at  
3pm.

I would love to know if these doves are escaped pets or birds that  
have bred in the wild.

Ginger Langdon-Lassagne
Sunnyvale
On Sep 24, 2006, at 8:37 PM, Rick Herder wrote:

> Today at 11:30am I had a Eurasian Collared-Dove south of Morgan  
> Hill, on a telephone pole at Santa Teresa Boulevard and California  
> Avenue.   This is across the valley but really just a few miles  
> away from the Maple and Hill intersection where they have been  
> reported often.
>
> I haven't kept good records of my Eurasian Collared-Dove sightings,  
> but I have seen them in widely scattered areas of the south  
> valley.   I do have a few records.  I saw one on Nov. 11, 2005 in  
> San Juan Bautista, just west of the mission.   I saw 2 on Memorial  
> Day, May 29, 2006, at 3rd St. and Mariposa in San Juan Bautista.    
> Earlier on that same Memorial Day I saw 3 on Lone Tree Road in  
> Hollister, near Pan Tempo Way.  This part of Lone Tree Road is  
> still in the valley flats, and the birds were hanging around some  
> large agricultural warehouse buildings.
>
> -- 
> Rick Herder
> Morgan Hill, California
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