[SBB] odds and ends

["Garth Harwood" <[[email protected]]>]

Hello All,

 

Yesterday, 3/19/2007, a Red-breasted Nuthatch called energetically, if briefly, from pines at Monte Bello's gate 5. One individual was also heard here on 3/12 and on 3/5; I believe this is a resident bird.

 

On Friday 3/16, I stopped by the gate 5 pond at about 5pm with a couple of Hidden Villa colleagues and we were treated to a flyover Osprey almost immediately. It headed north into San Mateo County. It (or another?) was seen again, also on a northward tack, 10 minutes later.

 

Bushtits were finishing up nests at Hidden Villa this week - 2 efforts were noted. Warbling Vireos began singing here on 3/19, which is within 24 hours of what I've noted in most recent years.

 

Moments ago, I watched the resident Common Raven pair flying from our sheep enclosure with beakloads of wool, signalling that they are in the finishing stages of nestbuilding. (They do this every year - it's fun to see them gleaning from the barbwire.)

 

Apparently, I mistakenly included everyone on SBB in a bug note I sent to Rich Greene a few days ago, in which I speculated (badly, it turns out) on the ID of a damselfly observed at the gate 5 pond. Rich took a look and confirmed that the early species there is a Western Forktail, assuming that we saw the same thing, of course.

 

Best regards to all,

 

Garth Harwood

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