[SBB] Red Tails in Campbell

[Lisa Myers <[[email protected]]>]

Its a lazy summer morning and with all the windows open I have enjoyed the calls for my local Red Tail Hawks. There has been a Red Tail Hawk in my suburban neighborhood for several years.  This bird would show up in the winter and I thought it would leave upon spring.  But after a couple of winters I then saw the bird throughout the spring & summer. We could find him/her sitting in one reliable tree each morning just off San Thomas Expressway and Winchester Blvd.

 

This year there were two Red Tails sitting together in the tree!  The neighborhood crows often alert one to where the buteos are and I have watched dispute after dispute from my living room window.  The local mockingbird also gets in on the action now and then.

 

On recent evening walks I have found the pair's night roost which is in some established large trees in a neighbor's backyard.  The trees border the off ramp of San Tomas Expressway onto Winchester Blvd. and is the same general area where we see them sitting in the morning.

 

No signs of nesting activity, but this pair seems to hunt the open areas between the busy intersections of Highway 17 and the expressway and Los Gatos Creek Park. 

 

I think it is great that this pair are making a living right here in the middle of civilization! There was a day I would have never thought it possible.

 

I also have a Nuttall's Woodpecker banging his brains against a power pole everyday now. You can hear him for blocks!  He seems to start around 9:30 AM each morning.

 

Lisa Myers 

Campbell

 

 

 

 

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