[SBB] Yellow-breasted Chat, Canyon Wren

[[[email protected]] (Mike Rogers)]

All,

I spent an hour this morning 5/5/07 birding the first half-mile of Llagas Creek north of Bloomfield Road. Despite the wind, there was a fair amount of bird song and a nice variety of migrants: 1 YELLOW-BREASTED CHAT, 2 YELLOW WARBLERS, 3 ORANGE-CROWNED WARBLERS, 5 WILSON'S WARBLERS, 3 COMMON YELLOWTHROATS, a late singing adult male "MYRTLE" YELLOW-RUMPED WARBLER, 1 VAUX'S SWIFT, 1 OLIVE-SIDED FLYCATCHER, 1 SWAINSON'S THRUSH, 1 WESTERN TANAGER, 6 BLACK-HEADED GROSBEAKS, 2 LAZULI BUNTINGS, 1 late WHITE-CROWNED SPARROW, and 1 LAWRENCE'S GOLDFINCH. I didn't go far enough to check out the sewage ponds, but did see 2 LONG-BILLED CURLEWS flying in that direction.

Next I did an 8-mile loop in Henry Coe Park, taking the Grizzly Gulch Trail up from the end of Gilroy Hot Springs Road to the Willson Peak Trail, then down the Steer Ridge Road and the Spike Jones Trail back to the car. The CANYON WREN was still at the rock outcrop near the Dexter Trail junction and a low-flying pair of WHITE-THROATED SWIFTS was just below here. It was pretty windy, especially after mid-day, and I did not find any flocks of migrants. The only two Dendroica warblers I heard sounded like Townsend's Warblers and the only empidonax flycatchers I found were two PACIFIC-SLOPE FLYCATCHERS. All three VIREOS included 6 HUTTON'S, 5 WARBLING, and 2 CASSIN'S. Other birds included 6 LAZULI BUNTINGS, 1 WESTERN TANAGER, a pair of BLUE-GRAY GNATCATCHERS and 2 PURPLE FINCHES. Near Willson Peak were 3 LARK SPARROWS and a probable Grasshopper Sparrow that flushed from the road.

The drive in turned up the day's only WESTERN WOOD-PEWEE near the junction of Canada and Gilroy Hot Springs roads and 2 male WOOD DUCKS along Gilroy Hot Springs Road north of Hunting Hollow. On the way out, I found 25+ TRICOLORED BLACKBIRDS near the corral at milepost 0439 on Canada Road and at the nearby pond at milepost 0470.

Mike Rogers
Sunnyvale

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