[SBB] Ed Levin/Calaveras

[Bill Bousman <[[email protected]]>]

Folks:

This morning, 3/30/07, I visited Ed Levin CP.  Above Sandy Wool Lake, 
I saw a singing HOUSE WREN singing and later I had one in an orchard 
along Downing Road.  There were quite a few Western Kingbirds around, 
but I missed some of the other nice birds that others saw.

Coming down from the sycamore grove above Sandy Wool, I ran into Pete 
LaTourrette walking up.  Pete, who is not on the listserver, later 
wrote that he saw an intermediate morph-type SWAINSON'S HAWK and a 
GRASSHOPPER SPARROW.

Over at Spring Valley, the best I could do was a female Selasphorus 
hummer and no sapsuckers.  Up the hill from Ed Levin were at least 
500 swallows, much too far to id.  These must be migrants as I have 
never seen such a concentration later in the year.

Afterwards, I drove up Calaveras Road to the Bald Eagle nest, as 
other pilgrims have done before.  Everyone should do this.  There is 
(barely) enough room to pull off the road to admire this nest and the 
incubating adult.  The cretins in the Santa Clara County 
administration and the sheriff's office would prefer that you stay 
home and watch the Discovery channel, but the hell with them.  Go out 
and do something patriotic for a change.  This is public property, by 
the way, but the San Francisco Public Utilities Commission (formerly 
the Water Department) does not believe this is the case.

Yours for rebellion, Bill



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