Oct 13, 2013
Sign Hill – followed route from this blog, Ridge trail to Letters trail to Seubert trail.  Vast majority of species and birds were at the top of the first incline from parking lot, in the grove of pine facing south.  0.1 mile.  Why did I go any further?  The letters are concrete slabs painted white.

 

Overhead, the GEICO Skytypers typed messages I mostly missed except for this partial message:

 

 

 

 

 

Traveling
2 miles
2 hours?
Observers: 1
All birds reported? Yes

Comments: Black squirrel (melanistic) eastern gray squirrel
1 Turkey Vulture
1 Osprey
1 Red-tailed Hawk
1 American Kestrel
1 Rock Pigeon
1 Mourning Dove
1 White-throated Swift
1 Anna’s Hummingbird
1 Acorn Woodpecker
1 Red-breasted Sapsucker
1 Nuttall’s Woodpecker
1 Downy Woodpecker
1 Northern Flicker
1 Black Phoebe
1 Western Scrub-Jay
1 Common Raven
1 Chestnut-backed Chickadee
1 Bushtit
1 Pygmy Nuthatch
1 Brown Creeper
1 Bewick’s Wren
1 Ruby-crowned Kinglet
1 Northern Mockingbird
1 Yellow Warbler
1 Yellow-rumped Warbler (Audubon’s)
1 Townsend’s Warbler
1 Spotted Towhee
1 California Towhee
1 Golden-crowned Sparrow
1 Dark-eyed Junco
1 American Goldfinch