Date: 6/6/26 3:19 pm From: SteveLombardi via groups.io <hotrock175...> Subject: Re: [EBB-Sightings] Central Contra Costa co. breeding bird notes
Referencing Dom's great post here: Just a comment about quail in San Ramon.
We had lots of quail in our neighborhood in east San Ramon for 20 years with several breeding families in our yard every season.
Their numbers declined starting in 2018 and have now almost completely disappeared from our yard and the neighborhood in general, although they're still around in the adjoining open space.
There have been no obvious changes to the habitat in that time, so we're puzzled by the decline.
Predators? We've always had outdoor cats, skunks, raccoons, and coyotes, but recently the bobcat numbers seem to have increased (we have them in our backyard pretty regularly).
OTOH, for a bit of good news: A Cooper's Hawk is sitting on a nest in a tree in an office parking lot in the middle of town. Go, girl.
