Re: [SBB] Red Tail nest in Palo Alto

["Patty Ciesla" <[[email protected]]>]

That nest has been active since at least January of 2002. I have notes from
a field trip looking at the Stanford S1 Trail proposal from that time, and
recall commenting on the nests' proximity to the proposed trail.

Patty

> -----Original Message-----
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> [mailto:[[email protected]]] On Behalf Of Ron Wolf
> Sent: Saturday, April 14, 2007 8:25 PM
> To: [[email protected]]
> Subject: [SBB] Red Tail nest in Palo Alto
> 
> 
> For the third straight year (at least), a paid of Red Tail Hawks
> is nesting in the top of an oak along Page Mill Road, just
> couple of hundred yeards southwest of Foothill Blvd. It doen't
> look like there are any chicks up there yet, but the birds are
> incubating.
> 
> The location is almost directly across the from the place where
> OLD Page Mill Rd. intersects the current Page Mill Rd. There's
> a line of tree along a creek overlooking a hore pasture.
> 
> The nest is quite visible to the naked eye, but you'll need some
> optics to see the activity up there. At the moment, the oak has
> not leafed out fully. I expect that the the nest won't be quite
> as open to view later in the month. Even so, this location
> offered decent views of three chicks last year.
> 
> 
> -- Ron Wolf / Palo Alto
> 
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