Date: 3/31/25 12:54 pm From: Chris Ortega via groups.io <chrisorte9a...> Subject: Re: [EBB-Sightings] Lime Ridge yesterday
Orange-crowned Warbler is a common species in the county year-round. The
Rare Bird Alert that showed up was for the Gray-headed subspecies of
Orange-crowned Warbler.
Chris Ortega
Bay Point
On Mon, Mar 31, 2025, 12:45 PM Rosemary Johnson via groups.io <compasros=
<comcast.net...> wrote:
> Matt,
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> Saw an Orange-crowned Warbler at Twin Ponds Trail, Shell Ridge on the
> 10th. And heard them at two other parks the week before that. So they are
> definitely in the East Bay already.
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> Rosemary Johnson
> Hercules
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> On 03/30/2025 11:12 AM PDT Matt Tarlach via groups.io <mtar925=
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> 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.
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> 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.
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> 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.
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> Matt Tarlach
> Walnut Creek
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