Thursday, April 21, 2011

Morgan Hill 4/8/2011

We came to Morgan Hill to spend some time bird watching here and in Moss Landing over at the coast. We were in site 268.

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We also picked up a mouse that got into our bird seed. At least I think it was a mouse. A neighbor gave us some sticky paper but the rodent got off of it leaving some fur and never came near it again. Would not touch the cheese and peanut butter in the mouse traps we had. So we took the bird seed and put the container in the car reset the trap with seed and the next morning the seeds were gone and the trap sprung but the mouse got away once again. Smart little devil. We reset the trap this time I put the seeds on double backed tape he has not come near it since. We moved and I haven’t seen sign of him.

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This Wild Turkey liked the bird seed too. Mr. Tom enjoyed scratching around in the grass.

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Mr. Tom chasing some female turkeys.

We drove over to Moss Landing for a picnic, to see the ocean, look for birds and see if the Sea Otters were still around. They have a small Marina.

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Across the street from the town there is a cement plant and a power plant. These are the smoke stacks from the power plant.

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The Sea Otters were there and playful as usual.

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We found the ocean and these Sanderlings. This is a favorite spot for surfers. This is part of Monterey Bay, Monterey is south and Santa Cruz north.

Here is some of the birds we saw.

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White-crowned Sparrow singing up a storm.

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American Avocet

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Snowy Egret fishing.

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Willet getting his lunch.

The one bird that we did not see were the Brown Pelicans. We saw hundreds of them in the fall when we were here but there wasn’t a one this time.

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