Date: 3/30/25 11:12 am From: Matt Tarlach via groups.io <mtar925...> Subject: [EBB-Sightings] Lime Ridge yesterday
On 3/29 I co-led a casual nature walk at Lime Ridge---that finger of grassy hills that reaches north from the foothills of Mt. Diablo toward Concord. Before I got there---so about 8AM---my co-leader, who is up there often, said he'd heard an Orange-crowned Warbler in likely habitat. Needing to get the public walk organized, we did not have time then to stake out the bird, and it did not appear or call later.
I did not include this in our Ebird, since I hadn't confirmed it myself, and wouldn't have posted until I saw in the Rare Bird Report an Orange-crowned elsewhere in the region. Just posting to say: maybe the migrants are arriving.
We also had a pair of White-tailed Kites, putting on an aerial display together. And a trio of Acorn Woodpeckers pecking at a utility pole near Kiska lane. My Lime-Ridge-local comrade said that the ACWO were the first he'd ever seen there.
