[SBB] california thrasher, santa clara

[Chuq Von Rospach <[[email protected]]>]

Was doing fall cleanup in the garden today and noticed a bird that  
looked different in the large pine a couple of houses down. Thinking  
it might be one of our (seasonal) woodpeckers, I grabbed the binocs  
out of the car. We played tag for a few minutes and I was about to  
write it off as a mockingbird when I finally got a decent view of it  
-- California thrasher, moving around deep inside the tree on the  
branches and trunk.

We've had a thrasher at that tree once before, a few years ago. (the  
tree is about 60' tall, and partially dead; it's normally inhabited  
by doves and house finches, and I know both mockingbirds and my crow  
pair nested in it this year; it's also where that juvenile robin  
appeared a couple of weeks back, so I've learned to keep an eye on  
it. you never know...)

Santa Clara central park area.

chuq

(out of area -- I made it out to half moon bay for the hawk show; if  
you haven't gotten out there, DO IT. I went out there friday late  
morning (11 until about 1PM), not expecting much because of the time  
of day; my first thought was that all I saw were gulls soaring in the  
wind -- then realized they weren't gulls. At one point, there were  
seven red-tails and a white-tailed kite all hunting at the same time  
-- at noon in a blustery wind.

Take 92 out to 1, left on pacific coast highway, right on poplar,  
take it to the end. It's a real sight. It wasn't a great day for  
photography (no, it was a rotten day for photography, because of the  
combination of factors everything was badly backlit -- don't let  
people tell you you can fix anything in photoshop! -- but here are  
still a few decent photos to give you an idea of what you're  
missing... http://www.flickr.com/photos/chuqui/sets/72157602295338141/ )


--
Chuq Von Rospach
[[email protected]]
http://chuqui.typepad.com



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