[SBB] Ed Levin CP Owlets & Piglets

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Hello All,

 

Like Dave, I made a late morning trip to Ed Levin CP.  I'm still amazed at the amount of mowing, trimming and cutting that goes on around that park.  It seems that everywhere I walked, someone on a tractor would come along with a mower in tow.  (Not to mention the people with the weed-wackers and leaf-blowers.)

 

I did find one pair of Lawrence's Goldfinch near the hang-glider landing area. 

 

I still haven't located any Blue Grosbeaks in the park yet, but not for the lack of looking.

 

Black-headed Grosbeaks were being very vocal, along with Lazuli Buntings and Ash-throated Flycatchers (and of course Wild Turkeys).

 

Last week during the Calliope Hummingbird fest, Christine Long and Linda Sullivan wanted to check the Great Horned Owl nest along the Los Coches Ridgel Loop Trail.  (Sorry, I forget who originally reported the nest.)  With their scope, they were able to show me the location.  We felt very sure that we could see two young owlets, under the protection of an adult.  They were able to put their scope on the nest from the trail, just below the house with the two chimneys.  The nest is in an oak on the opposite slope of the valley.  From the Los Coches Loop Trail, I was much closer for my binocular view, but the angle is from below the nest.  An adult was on the edge of the nest, but I could only verify one young owlet.  Occasionally, a young one would pop it's head up and appear to beg, but it never was fed.  I just never saw two downy heads at the same time. 

 

Heard a couple Pacific-slope Flycatchers along the trail and a Hutton's Vireo.

 

After I crossed the paved road and the small creek I was heading back up the horse trail towards the Spring Valley corral area where I had parked.  Coming down the trail the park maintenance guy on his tractor and mower.  He informed me that he was surprised to see anyone on the trail and wasn't I the guy that he had seen over at Sandy Wool kiosk.  Either he's stalking me or he thinks I'm stalking him.

 

Thanks Linda and Christine,

Janet got a scope view of the owl's nest from the same location that you showed me.  We went back up there that evening.  The lighting was poor because the sun sets on that slope much earlier than other areas of the park.  We also saw the sow with the four piglets (3 black, 1 brown) near the corral.

 

Randy Little

Milpitas

 

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