[EBB Sightings] Best time to visit Sunol Regional Wilderness?

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Also, you can get a permit at the headquarters to drive up Welch Creek 
Rd. (private) if you are not up to hiking up to the ridges above from 
the valley floor. There are some great vantage points from above with 
good wildflower potential. If you're really lucky, you might see Golden 
Eagles from that viewpoint; there is, in fact, an overlook called Eagle 
View. I've seen them doing the roller coaster flight there once, quite 
a thrill.

Les
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On Apr 4, 2005, at 12:31 PM, Sgloverccc at aol.com wrote:

> Hi all,
>  First of all, as I think most would agree, birding is the morning is 
> nearly always better than birding in the middle of the day. I would 
> check for the sparrow first thing and, if you don't find it, come back 
> later in the day.
>  Sunol Regional Park was once my favorite stomping grounds. My 
> favorite way of birding it was to start at HQ and follow Alameda Creek 
> upstream, under the bridge at the far end of the parking lot, and then 
> upstream further to the confluence with what I think is Calaveras 
> Creek. From there you have to go back up to the main fire road to get 
> to Little Yosemite which was absolutely raging a couple of weeks ago. 
> This is the traditional area for Dipper and is also good for Canyon 
> Wren, though it might be hard to hear over the creek. The hillsides in 
> the area also have Rufous-crowned Sparrows and, probably right now, 
> migrant Rufous Hummingbirds.
>  From Little Yosemite you can either walk back to HQ on the fire road 
> or take a number of different trails that will take you up on the 
> ridges and then back down to HQ. There you would likely add more 
> soaring raptors, swifts and swallows as well as a few additional 
> grassland species.
>  This is a little early for a really high species total (mid-late 
> April would be better) but I would still bet you would get at least 50 
> species if you birded thoroughly right now.
>  Good luck
>  Steve Glover
>  PS There is now a machine at the kiosk to take your $5 so you can't 
> sneak in before the attendant gets there anymore.
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Also, you can get a permit at the headquarters to drive up Welch Creek
Rd. (private) if you are not up to hiking up to the ridges above from
the valley floor. There are some great vantage points from above with
good wildflower potential. If you're really lucky, you might see
Golden Eagles from that viewpoint; there is, in fact, an overlook
called Eagle View. I've seen them doing the roller coaster flight
there once, quite a thrill. 



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Les Chibana

BirdNUTZ(tm) - Ornigasmic Birding

Palo Alto Baylands Birding Classes

em <

web <

ph 650-949-4335

fx 650-949-4137

snailmail: SR2 Box 335, La Honda CA 94020


On Apr 4, 2005, at 12:31 PM, Sgloverccc at aol.com wrote:


all,

as I think most would agree, birding is the morning is nearly always
better than birding in the middle of the day. I would check for the
sparrow first thing and, if you don't find it, come back later in the
day. 

Regional Park was once my favorite stomping grounds. My favorite way
of birding it was to start at HQ and follow Alameda Creek upstream,
under the bridge at the far end of the parking lot, and then upstream
further to the confluence with what I think is Calaveras Creek. From
there you have to go back up to the main fire road to get to Little
Yosemite which was absolutely raging a couple of weeks ago. This is
the traditional area for Dipper and is also good for Canyon Wren,
though it might be hard to hear over the creek. The hillsides in the
area also have Rufous-crowned Sparrows and, probably right now,
migrant Rufous Hummingbirds.

Yosemite you can either walk back to HQ on the fire road or take a
number of different trails that will take you up on the ridges and
then back down to HQ. There you would likely add more soaring raptors,
swifts and swallows as well as a few additional grassland species.

little early for a really high species total (mid-late April would be
better) but I would still bet you would get at least 50 species if you
birded thoroughly right now.



now a machine at the kiosk to take your $5 so you can't sneak in
before the attendant gets there anymore.
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