Far fewer birds were present in the nooks and crannies in and around Palos Verdes golf course and environs today as compared to recent counts. The only real highlight was a briefly calling but unseen Winter/Pacific Wren in the creek below St. Francis church. It responded to pishing with three dry, rapid, doubled chips before shutting up. I'd be hard-pressed to compare the calls to another bird species, but it definitely didn't bring Wilson's Warbler to mind. I think it would be worthwhile for someone with a fancy-schmancy smartphone to play Winter Wren calls at this bird. It was about halfway between the church's fenced-in playground and the east end of the riparian area. In that area, I jammed a trailside stick into the ground and topped it with an upturned Boyd's (appropriate) coffee cup. In the creek-bottom near where I heard the bird, there was a notably tall, straight fan-palm. Also in this area were 3 Purple Finches, a Bullock's Oriole, and a Red-breasted Sapsucker. Jim Pike HB |
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