Date: 1/21/26 12:24 pm From: Chris Overington via groups.io <chris.overington...> Subject: Re: [southbaybirds] Yellow-bellied Sapsucker at Vasona CP
On Wed, Jan 21, 2026 at 12:20 PM Chris Overington via groups.io
<chris.overington...> wrote:
> Continuing at 12:15 above same tree with red, orange and yellow paint on
> trunk.
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> On Wed, Jan 21, 2026 at 9:25 AM Brooke Miller via groups.io <brooke.bam=
> <gmail.com...> wrote:
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>> Hi,
>>
>> The bird continues this morning in same location. Currently I
>> inadvertently caused it to fly across the creek and disappear. I’m waiting
>> for it to return.
>>
>> Brooke Miller
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>> On Jan 20, 2026, at 3:42 PM, Dave Weber via groups.io <dwbirdster=
>> <sbcglobal.net...> wrote:
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>> After shopping in downtown Los Gatos this morning, I stopped at Vasona CP
>> on the way home. While standing here: 37.237920, -121.973168, next to an
>> uprooted tree, I heard a sapsucker calling. I spotted a very dingy immature
>> Yellow-belied Sapsucker across the creek in a tree I believe is approx
>> here: 37.237681, -121.972891 (a small tree with red, orange, and yellow
>> paint is here, but you have to go to the other side of the creek to see
>> it). The bird was visible long enough to make the ID, then flew a short
>> distance NE-ish, probably not far. It had dark, dull, and streaky red
>> crown. Face had black and white stripes. Chin seemed white. White wing
>> patch. Back had very disorganized dingy barring. There was an adult
>> Yellow-bellied in this area Dec 2021-Jan 2022.
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>>
>>
>> Dave Weber,
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>> Milpitas
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