Re: [SBB] Blufftop park Hawk Festival

["Alvaro Jaramillo" <[[email protected]]>]

Folks

   I think that the raptors are fewer now, but there are still plenty of
them around. Yesterday I saw 5 or so kites, 3-4 harriers, 3-4 Red-tailed
Hawks, 1 American Kestrel and one juvenile Peregrine Falcon at the Half Moon
Bay cliffs. The Peregrine was a rather dark one, it may have been a
northwestern Peale's subspecies. I live about a block away from the action,
and while slower, I would not say that the festival is over yet. I am still
waiting for that dang Eurasian Kestrel to make it over! Also, it is late
enough in the season now to begin looking for Short-eared Owls in the
evening. 

Good birding 

Al

Alvaro Jaramillo
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Half Moon Bay, California
 
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-----Original Message-----
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Rospach
Sent: Sunday, November 04, 2007 3:43 PM
To: South Bay South Bay Birds; PenBird
Cc: Chuq Von Rospach
Subject: [SBB] Blufftop park Hawk Festival


I went out to the coast for a bit today, and stopped by Blufftop. Very  
quiet -- three kites and two red-tails while I was there. Talking to  
one of the residents with a house facing the park, they said it'd  
really died down over the last week, so it looks like the hawk  
festival is over, at least for now.

Also wandered by Fitzgerald really quick while I was out there -- very  
low tide, which was nice, and the place was loaded with gulls, almost  
exclusively adult plumage, and nothing particularly unusual (100+)  
that I noticed. Only bird of remote note were two yellow-rumps that  
were working the kelp and rocks on the beach looking for bugs and  
chipping.  Also two ravens in the lot when I got there, and a black  
phoebe posing for photos. I call that a slow day...


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