June 28, 2009
Richard Stevens:
Tim Lary, Matt Rosone, Roger Danka, and I searched for owls in Pike National Forest before sunrise Sunday morning. We tried to relocate the Flammulated Owl I had heard last month along Forest Road 550; without success.
We did see an adult Northern Goshawk about 0.1 miles east of the Tramway Trail which leads north off of FR 550.
After several hours of searching an American Three-toed Woodpecker was found about 50 feet east of the Buck Gulch Trail and 200 yards north of the Skipper Trail.
We continued to the old bridge along the Skipper Trail where American Three-toed Woodpeckers and Williamson's Sapsuckers have been observed in the past. We found neither.
We did hear a Northern Pygmy-Owl in the rocky cliff area of the Strawberry Jack Trail at about 600 yards south of the Parkview Trail. However, we never did see the owl.
A second American Three-toed Woodpecker was found southeast of the Strawberry Jack Trail where the trail drops down to the level of the Buck Gulch Trail (with the help of switchbacks, perhaps 300 yards east of the Buck Gulch Trail).
The forest and Pine Valley Ranch Park was quite birdy. We saw many Western Bluebirds, Mountain Bluebirds, White-breasted Nuthatches, 2 Red-breasted Nuthatches, a flock of Pygmy Nuthatches, 2 Brown Creepers, many Chipping Sparrows, a Cordilleran Flycatcher, Mountain Chickadees, Black-capped Chickadees, many Broad-tailed Hummingbirds and a Band-tailed Pigeon!
Richard Stevens:
Tim Lary, Matt Rosone, Roger Danka, and I searched for owls in Pike National Forest before sunrise Sunday morning. We tried to relocate the Flammulated Owl I had heard last month along Forest Road 550; without success.
We did see an adult Northern Goshawk about 0.1 miles east of the Tramway Trail which leads north off of FR 550.
After several hours of searching an American Three-toed Woodpecker was found about 50 feet east of the Buck Gulch Trail and 200 yards north of the Skipper Trail.
We continued to the old bridge along the Skipper Trail where American Three-toed Woodpeckers and Williamson's Sapsuckers have been observed in the past. We found neither.
We did hear a Northern Pygmy-Owl in the rocky cliff area of the Strawberry Jack Trail at about 600 yards south of the Parkview Trail. However, we never did see the owl.
A second American Three-toed Woodpecker was found southeast of the Strawberry Jack Trail where the trail drops down to the level of the Buck Gulch Trail (with the help of switchbacks, perhaps 300 yards east of the Buck Gulch Trail).
The forest and Pine Valley Ranch Park was quite birdy. We saw many Western Bluebirds, Mountain Bluebirds, White-breasted Nuthatches, 2 Red-breasted Nuthatches, a flock of Pygmy Nuthatches, 2 Brown Creepers, many Chipping Sparrows, a Cordilleran Flycatcher, Mountain Chickadees, Black-capped Chickadees, many Broad-tailed Hummingbirds and a Band-tailed Pigeon!
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