[SBB] A Great Day for Hummingbirds

[Kathryn Parker <[[email protected]]>]

Today, Mon. Apr. 23rd, I made a pretty good sweep of our local 
hummingbirds. This morning at the Ed Levin Dog Park in Milpitas, I saw 
multiple ANNA'S HUMMINGBIRDS, 1 male RUFOUS HUMMINGBIRD and the male 
CALLIOPE HUMMINGBIRD. (To Bill B. - I believe the bush they are all 
visiting is one of the Euphorbias). This afternoon, following Mike 
Rogers's directions, I went looking for BLACK-CHINNED HUMMINGBIRDS 
along Guadalupe Creek north of Curtner in San Jose. I found 1 female 
duking it out with a female Anna's across from the entrance to the 
River Glen trailer park and 1 male on a TV aerial guy wire on the house 
just south of the trailer park. Also feeding in the tree-bushes with 
big white flowers was 1 female-type ALLEN'S HUMMINGBIRD. Anyone have a 
Costa's Hummingbird?
Also along Guadalupe Creek I found an Anna's Hummingbird nest, no eggs 
yet, nestled low in the brambles and a pair of DOWNY WOODPECKERS 
perhaps changing the guard at a nest hole in a snag across the creek.
At Ed Levin, there were also two GRASSHOPPER SPARROWS just beyond the 
large curve in the trail beyond the sycamores. They were up on the 
fence downhill from the trail and one was doing the 
wing-fluttering-tail-up display. Also heard another Grasshopper Sparrow 
singing up the hill from this point.

Kathy Parker
Los Gatos


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