Coyote Valley

On Sunday January 31st we drove from Monterey to San Jose International Airport stopping for an hour and a half in Coyote Valley. The main target was Yellow-billed Magpie, a species that I had not seen for many years and we found this, guided by eBird flags on Laguna Avenue. We also had a Golden Eagle at that spot and were lucky to ran into a birder who mentioned Tricolor Blackbirds. Looking carefully we found a couple in a flock of Red-winged Blackbirds feeding on the ground. We had just half an hour to visit Calero County Park where we found a flock of Golden-crowned Sparrows and a singing California Thrasher.