{"id":1001034,"date":"2008-03-02T21:06:03","date_gmt":"2008-03-03T02:06:03","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/www.elharo.com\/blog\/birding\/2008\/03\/02\/what-kind-of-duck-climbs-a-tree\/"},"modified":"2013-12-18T16:10:01","modified_gmt":"2013-12-18T21:10:01","slug":"what-kind-of-duck-climbs-a-tree","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.elharo.com\/blog\/birding\/2008\/03\/02\/what-kind-of-duck-climbs-a-tree\/","title":{"rendered":"What Kind of Duck Climbs a Tree?"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>A Wood Duck, of course. On a trip with the <a href=\"http:\/\/www.seaandsageaudubon.org\/\">Sea &amp; Sage Audubon Society<\/a> this morning at Santiago Oaks Regional Park, we found this pair apparently scouting out possible nesting sites:<\/p>\n<p><img src='http:\/\/www.elharo.com\/blog\/wp-content\/uploads\/2008\/03\/woodducks.jpg' alt='Male and female Wood Ducks in a Eucalyptus tree' width='720' height='538'\/><\/p>\n<p>They were being mobbed by Acorn Woodpeckers, but didn&#8217;t seem to mind too much. About half a dozen European Starlings were also present and scouting some of the same holes. I hope they lose the competition for the space.<br \/>\n<!--more--><\/p>\n<p>In about 4 hours we logged some 30-odd species including:<\/p>\n<ul>\n<li>Wood Duck  \t<\/li>\n<li> \tGreat Egret \t<\/li>\n<li>\tTurkey Vulture \t<\/li>\n<li> \tOsprey \t<\/li>\n<li> \tCooper&#8217;s Hawk \t<\/li>\n<li>\tRed-shouldered Hawk \t<\/li>\n<li>\tRed-tailed Hawk \t<\/li>\n<li>\tMourning Dove \t<\/li>\n<li>\tAnna&#8217;s Hummingbird \t<\/li>\n<li> \tBelted Kingfisher \t<\/li>\n<li>\tAcorn Woodpecker \t<\/li>\n<li> \tYellow-bellied Sapsucker \t<\/li>\n<li> \tRed-naped Sapsucker \t<\/li>\n<li>\tNuttall&#8217;s Woodpecker \t<\/li>\n<li> \tNorthern Flicker \t<\/li>\n<li> \tCassin&#8217;s Kingbird \t<\/li>\n<li> \tWestern Scrub-Jay \t<\/li>\n<li>\tAmerican Crow \t<\/li>\n<li>\tCommon Raven \t<\/li>\n<li>\tTree Swallow \t<\/li>\n<li>\tBushtit \t<\/li>\n<li> \tEuropean Starling \t<\/li>\n<li>\tOrange-crowned Warbler \t<\/li>\n<li>\tYellow-rumped Warbler \t<\/li>\n<li>\tCommon Yellowthroat \t<\/li>\n<li>\tSpotted Towhee \t<\/li>\n<li>\tCalifornia Towhee \t<\/li>\n<li>\tSong Sparrow \t<\/li>\n<li>\tDark-eyed Junco \t<\/li>\n<li>\tHouse Finch \t<\/li>\n<li>\tLesser Goldfinch \t<\/li>\n<li> \tNutmeg Mannikin \t<\/li>\n<\/ul>\n<p>Yellow-bellied Sapsucker is a very good bird for the West Coast, though I&#8217;ve had numerous in New York already this year.<\/p>\n<p>Red-naped Sapsucker and Cassin&#8217;s Kingbird are both life birds. (I&#8217;ve seen Cassin&#8217;s Kingbird before but mis-identified it.)<\/p>\n<p>I&#8217;ll have to check and see whether the Nutmeg Mannikin is officially countable or not. <strong>Update<\/strong>: Nutmeg Mannikin wasn&#8217;t countable back in 2008, but in 2013 the California Bird records Committee added it to the state list, so I now count this as #993.  <\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>A Wood Duck, of course. On a trip with the Sea &amp; Sage Audubon Society this morning at Santiago Oaks Regional Park, we found this pair apparently scouting out possible nesting sites: They were being mobbed by Acorn Woodpeckers, but didn&#8217;t seem to mind too much. About half a dozen European Starlings were also present [&hellip;]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[2],"tags":[410],"class_list":["post-1001034","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-birding","tag-flash"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.elharo.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/1001034","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.elharo.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.elharo.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.elharo.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.elharo.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=1001034"}],"version-history":[{"count":1,"href":"https:\/\/www.elharo.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/1001034\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":1004892,"href":"https:\/\/www.elharo.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/1001034\/revisions\/1004892"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.elharo.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=1001034"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.elharo.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=1001034"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.elharo.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=1001034"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}