Date: 2/13/26 1:37 pm From: Brooke Miller via groups.io <brooke.bam...> Subject: [southbaybirds] 2 Phainopeplas at Spring Valley, Ed Levin
Hi all!
There are 2 female-type Phainopeplas now at Spring Valley, at Ed Levin County Park. This morning one was in and around the tree overhanging the pond with all the mistletoe, and it was being incessantly chased around by a Northern Mockingbird. I then ran into Roy Carlson who had seen one in the trees with mistletoe just downhill from where the pond water drains into the creek. I went to check it out, and sure enough, a second female-type.
I was alerted to each birds' presence by their soft rising slow whistle call.
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