Just a heads up. On Saturday at about 3:30 the Eastern Phoebe was spotted in the side meadow as Abram describes. But it then disappeared and showed up just after 5:00 on the northern edge of Marshall Field near where the closed connecting trail between the two fields comes out.
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From: <mbbirds...> on behalf of Abram Fleishman <abfleishman...>
Date: Saturday, January 11, 2025 at 4:39 PM
To: mbbirds <mbbirds...>
Subject: [MBBIRDS] Eastern Phoebe
I have had a bunch of people asking where to find the Eastern Phoebe at the UCSC upper campus.
It is a little tricky as it is not in Marshall Field and the trail from Twin Gates/Marshall Field is closed due to wet trail conditions and damage to endangered plants.
Attached is a map of how to avoid trail closures. Little arrow on left is the trail that isn’t too wet and closed. The bird is a the arrow in the middle The trail is tricky to find I think. It is not into the meadow where you park. It’s at the edge of the woods a little ways back toward twin gates.
It was in a little side meadow.
Good luck and stay on the trails to keep from trampling the endangered plants!
