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[SBB] Phainopepla at Ed Levin County Park south



Pat Kenny and I went to the southern part of Ed Levin this morning, 3/16/07.  We found the continuing YELLOW-BELLIED SAPSUCKER in his usual spot in the tamarisks along with two RED-BREASTED SAPSUCKERs.  Near the corrals we saw two selasphorus hummingbirds; one had a mostly green back and was doing an ALLEN HUMMINGBIRD's characteristic shallow U-shaped display flight.  At the Y junction where the path from the corrals meets the Spring Valley Trail (house with two chimneys on the left, 2.5' square trail sign) we saw a male PHAINOPEPLA.  It spent time on prominent perches, calling, both near the house and on the trees up the slope to the north.  Finally, we saw a GREAT-HORNED OWL on a nest about a 1/4 mile up the left fork of the Los Coches Ridge Trail.  It appeared to be incubating; all we could see was a tail above one side of the nest and two ears, and occasionally two eyes, above the other side.
 
Roland Kenner
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