[SBB] BGGN, SEOW continue in Palo Alto

[Mike Rogers <[[email protected]]>]

All,

Feeling lucky today 1/3/07, I decided to try for the Short-eared Owl 
that eluded me on New Year's Day. On the way over to Byxbee Park I 
stopped at the dirt pullout at the northwestern edge of the Emily Renzel 
Wetlands, along the frontage road south of Embarcadero Road. Richard 
Jeffers found a Blue-gray Gnatcatcher partway along the paved path to 
the fenced facility behind the wetland pond during the Palo Alto 
Christmas Count on 12/18/06, and I decided to see if it was still 
around. Before I had walked halfway down the path, I saw the BLUE-GRAY 
GNATCATCHER on top of a coyotebrush on the left (north) side of the path.

Climbing the hill at Byxbee Park a few minutes later, I noted a 
SHORT-EARED OWL perched atop the landfill fence. A group of birders had 
their backs to the bird as they scoped the flood control basin. I 
alerted them to the owl, and they replied that they had just observed a 
Short-eared Owl out over the flood control basin - so it looks like two 
birds are still around.

Mike Rogers
Sunnyvale


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