[SBB] Western Screech Owl; Yellow Warbler

[Bob Power <[[email protected]]>]

Hi all:
At Rancho San Antonio this a.m., a Western Screech-owl
was perched in the same half-decayed oak tree as last
year's owl. Various directions follow below. My
supplement: park in the low main parking lot. Head for
the farm. When the trail splits at the tennis courts,
keep heading for the farm, but take the paved road,
not the trail.

At McClellan Ranch this a.m. a Yellow Warbler was
singing above Steven's Creek adjacent to McClellan Rd.
A brief birder and bird game ensued, revealing a
beautiful bright male complete with yellow breast and
razor thin red streaks.

Good birding,
Bob Power
McClellan Ranch, Cupertino, CA

 To paraphrase Cynthia Berg's
instructions: Go past the tennis courts to the split
in the trail, and
take the paved road to the right.  Continue to the
very end of the wire
fence.  At that final wooden post look up a dozen feet
and you should
see him snoozing in the open.  Bob and I wandered by
later, and he was
still there at 11:15.

Frank Vanslager

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Look for Rancho San Antonio on the web.
Bascially take 280 south, then exit Foothill Expwy
North/West (i.e.
towards Stevens Creek Park). Take first road on the
right. Cristo Rey.
There's a roundabout. Follow signs for Rancho San
Antonio. Park
entrance is on the left. After entering, turn right
and follow the
road to the parking lot furthest to the north. There
look for the
trail that goes over a bridge to Deer Hollow Farm.

The tree with the owl is not the dead tree with broken
off top (that's
the Acron Woodpecker tree mentioned below) but the
next big tree on
the left of the road. Its left trunk is live but the
right trunk is dead
and that's where the owl is.
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for two days in a row, I've seen a western screech owl
at rancho san
antonio, around 3-4 in the afternoon.

Location:
if you park in the main lot(s) and head towards the
farm -- after the
tennis courts the trail splits into paved road and the
dirt path.
Take the paved road towards the farm.  about 3/4 of
the way before the
trails meet up again, directly to the left of the road
(tree is about
2' from the edge of the pavement) there's a partially
dead tree and
the owl is sitting about 9' off the ground.  This is
the first tree
AFTER the dead tree that the Acorn woodpeckers
normally hang out in.
Owl sits in the 'far' side of the tree so go past the
tree and turn
around to see him/her.  very photogenic.

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