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Corralitos Creek |
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Once a favorite winter birding spot, unfortunately this Watsonville site now has greatly reduced public access just downstream from Green Valley Rd. From Hwy 1 take the Hwy 152 exit at Watsonville, and go left (east) on Green Valley Rd for 1.6 miles. Turn right into “The Towers” office complex parking lot just before reaching the intersection with Airport Blvd. Park near the creek and check the trees there for migrants and wintering species. Past rarities included Summer Tanager, Prairie, Tennessee, and Black-and-white warblers, and wintering Empidonax flycatchers. Look also for Merlin, accipiters, sapsuckers, White-throated Sparrow, and Winter Wren. An option still available to the adventurous birder is to enter the creek channel here (boots needed in winter and spring), and explore much farther upstream and down.
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