[SBB] common mergansers, bufflehead - Santa Clara

["Ann H." <[[email protected]]>]

Monday I took a lunchtime walk along the San Tomas Aquino

Creek trail, Mission College Blvd up to Great America amusement.

park.  Mostly I saw the usual cast:  egrets (great and snowy),

coots, mallards, yellow-rumped warblers, and so forth but

thought a couple items were worth sharing:

 

pair of female common mergansers were swimming in the

creek along with some ducks, below the overpass of the

road the path crosses (forgot the name, sorry), just past

the fire stn.  As we stood there to admire them, a kingfisher

flew by, vocalizing, and landed in a tree so we could watch

it.  (don't know if it was female or male, without my binocs)

 

I walked again on  Tues--no mergansers, just "the regulars."

The bufflehead continues in the pond next to the rollercoasters.

 

Ann Hepenstal

 

 

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