On my 3rd trip to Santa Claus Lane I followed excellent advice to hang out near the cute store "SALT". I got there around 10 this morning and fairly shortly saw a white car with two people armed with a spotting scope. They were from the Bay area and had info of a sighting just a short while ago. Sure enough I followed them and they quickly had the gray hawk in their scope perched on a cypress tree looking west toward Padaro Lane just to the right of the railroad tracks. I could see it in my binocs as well. After 10 minutes or so it flew off and was shortly seen on an orange post near the railroad crossing. I walked in that direction, and then turned back, when suddenly I looked up and saw the hawk perched directly above me in a tree. It was there only a few seconds, then flew across the road and perched on the chain link fence. It sat there long enough for me to get a couple of seconds of video and then flew away toward the freeway. This was at 11:12 AM. I'm very happy to have a few closeup views though no real photos. |
v1.35 - 11/22/22 - Finally rewrote code to handle new Groups.IO web structure v1.30 - 01/05/16 - Revamped cloud logic, optimized database queries, linked to eBird rarities. v1.23 - 12/08/11 - Added direct link to CBRC records. v1.22 - 12/03/11 - Corrected GMT offsets on dates. Added last 5 posts at top. v1.21 - 11/24/11 - Added direct link to range map for NA birds. v1.2 - 11/23/11 - Greatly improved graphing technology - separates month vs. year by posts. Added species auto-complete functionality. v1.14 - 11/22/11 - Added cloud bubble for common thread topics. v1.13 - 11/22/11 - Added integrated photos where available. v1.12 - 11/22/11 - Added multiple input boxes for additional refinement, negative search criteria (eg. -keyword). v1.11 - 11/22/11 - Added banding code, species look-up. Also direct link to recent eBird observations. v1.1 - 11/22/11 - Added 'date' functionality. Shows top 'month/year' combinations for a query. Restrict results to that 'month/year'. v1.0 - 11/21/11 - Initial version coded. Currently archiving 'lacobirds' and 'calbirds'.