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| 11/28/23 12:23 pm |
rosita94598 via groups.io <rosita94598...> |
[EBB-Sightings] winter diet of birds |
| 11/27/23 9:27 am |
Alexander Henry <awhenry...> |
Re: [EBB-Sightings] Reflections on Birding and Biking Patterson Pass |
| 11/27/23 9:24 am |
Bob Toleno <bob...> |
[EBB-Sightings] Hayward-Fremont CBC - Sunday, Dec 17 |
| 11/27/23 8:55 am |
JENNIFER FURY <jennyfuzzy...> |
Re: [EBB-Sightings] Reflections on Birding and Biking Patterson Pass |
| 11/26/23 7:22 pm |
Jim Chiropolos via groups.io <jnc...> |
[EBB-Sightings] Reflections on Birding and Biking Patterson Pass |
| 11/26/23 5:59 pm |
Sam Zuckerman <samzuckerman...> |
[EBB-Sightings] Three loon day at San Leandro Marina. |
| 11/25/23 8:47 am |
<ebarker101...> |
[EBB-Sightings] Bald Eagle at Crab Cove |
| 11/22/23 3:46 pm |
RON & MARILYN MODAFFERI <tahoemod...> |
[EBB-Sightings] China Berry Tree Berries are bird ripe "Edible" |
| 11/22/23 8:46 am |
Zac Denning <zdenning1...> |
Re: [EBB-Sightings] Catbird |
| 11/21/23 5:16 pm |
rosita94598 via groups.io <rosita94598...> |
[EBB-Sightings] Jersey Island and one Cattle Egret |
| 11/21/23 2:14 pm |
Graham Chisholm <graham.chisholm...> |
Re: [EBB-Sightings] Catbird |
| 11/20/23 8:43 pm |
John Luther <aplomado-falcon...> |
[EBB-Sightings] Catbird |
| 11/20/23 2:05 pm |
David Quady and Nancy Boas <davequady...> |
[EBB-Sightings] Gray Catbird persists in Tilden RP; Contra Costa County |
| 11/20/23 12:56 pm |
Hilary Powers <hilary...> |
Re: [EBB-Sightings] CATBIRD Jewel lake |
| 11/20/23 12:51 pm |
Aaron Maizlish <amm.birdlists...> |
Re: [EBB-Sightings] CATBIRD Jewel lake |
| 11/20/23 12:49 pm |
Dominik Mosur <dominikmosur...> |
Re: [EBB-Sightings] CATBIRD Jewel lake |
| 11/20/23 12:48 pm |
Hilary Powers <hilary...> |
Re: [EBB-Sightings] CATBIRD Jewel lake |
| 11/20/23 9:07 am |
Ethan Monk <z.querula...> |
[EBB-Sightings] CATBIRD Jewel lake |
| 11/19/23 6:02 pm |
Derek <dlheins...> |
[EBB-Sightings] Join the Richmond Christmas Bird Count |
| 11/19/23 8:11 am |
Dominik Mosur <dominikmosur...> |
[EBB-Sightings] Lapland Longspur Clifton Court 11/19/23 |
| 11/14/23 3:58 pm |
rosita94598 via groups.io <rosita94598...> |
[EBB-Sightings] Continuing Long-tailed duck Oakland |
| 11/13/23 3:43 pm |
Cathy Bleier <csbleier...> |
[EBB-Sightings] Bonaparte’s Gull at Aquatic Park |
| 11/13/23 8:23 am |
Becky Flanigan <musicfan4005...> |
[EBB-Sightings] Pine Siskin |
| 11/12/23 5:53 pm |
David Quady and Nancy Boas <davequady...> |
[EBB-Sightings] Red Crossbills in Tilden, near the bottom of Golf Course Road |
| 11/12/23 3:36 pm |
Zac Denning <zdenning1...> |
Re: [EBB-Sightings] Vollmer Peak - Red Crossbills |
| 11/12/23 3:18 pm |
RON & MARILYN MODAFFERI <tahoemod...> |
[EBB-Sightings] Killdeer Behavior |
| 11/12/23 1:12 pm |
Sam Zuckerman <samzuckerman...> |
[EBB-Sightings] Long-tailed Duck near Middle Harbor Shoreline |
| 11/12/23 6:49 am |
Sam Zuckerman <samzuckerman...> |
Re: [EBB-Sightings] Late? Western Tanager |
| 11/11/23 1:06 pm |
Dominik Mosur <dominikmosur...> |
Re: [EBB-Sightings] Late? Western Tanager |
| 11/11/23 1:01 pm |
Jaan Lepson via groups.io <lepson...> |
[EBB-Sightings] Late? Western Tanager |
| 11/11/23 12:46 pm |
Zac Denning <zdenning1...> |
[EBB-Sightings] Vollmer Peak - Red Crossbills |
| 11/11/23 8:56 am |
JENNIFER FURY <jennyfuzzy...> |
Re: [EBB-Sightings] Wilson's Snipe at the Tilden Botanic Garden |
| 11/10/23 3:41 pm |
Kay Loughman <kayloughman...> |
[EBB-Sightings] Too many siskina |
| 11/10/23 3:12 pm |
Lee Friedman <lfried6...> |
[EBB-Sightings] Wilson's Snipe at the Tilden Botanic Garden |
| 11/8/23 4:04 pm |
Ethan Monk <z.querula...> |
[EBB-Sightings] Late season flight |
| 11/8/23 10:42 am |
Jim Chiropolos via groups.io <jnc...> |
[EBB-Sightings] Add Golden Kinglets to the 2023 East Bay Interruptions |
| 11/6/23 7:52 am |
annemarie heineman via groups.io <annemarie1000...> |
Re: [EBB-Sightings] Palm Warbler at Middle Harbor |
| 11/5/23 2:02 pm |
Sam Zuckerman <samzuckerman...> |
[EBB-Sightings] Palm Warbler at Middle Harbor |
| 11/4/23 11:48 am |
Ethan Monk <z.querula...> |
[EBB-Sightings] Cassin's Finch(s?) |
| 11/3/23 6:02 pm |
Jim Chiropolos via groups.io <jnc...> |
[EBB-Sightings] Band Tailed Pigeons - Big movement tofay |
| 11/3/23 10:52 am |
East Bay Birding <eastbaybirding...> |
[EBB-Sightings] Harris’s Sparrow - Berkeley Meadow |
| 11/3/23 9:26 am |
Kay Loughman <kayloughman...> |
[EBB-Sightings] Pine Siskin Irruption |
| 11/2/23 3:24 pm |
Doug Greenberg <doug.greenberg50...> |
[EBB-Sightings] White-throated sparrows back for third straight winter |
| 11/2/23 2:54 pm |
Dawn Lemoine <lemonbirder...> |
[EBB-Sightings] 2023 Oakland CBC |
| 11/1/23 1:19 pm |
rosita94598 via groups.io <rosita94598...> |
[EBB-Sightings] coming into winter Walnut Creek |
| 10/31/23 8:14 pm |
Joyce Rybandt <jrybandt...> |
[EBB-Sightings] Surf Scoter at Cesar Chavez Park |
| 10/31/23 5:02 pm |
JENNIFER FURY <jennyfuzzy...> |
[EBB-Sightings] Common Loons are back |
| 10/31/23 3:27 pm |
W Hudson <wllm2...> |
Re: [EBB-Sightings] Pine Siskins Cassin's Finch |
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Date: 11/28/23 12:23 pm
From: rosita94598 via groups.io <rosita94598...>
Subject: [EBB-Sightings] winter diet of birds |
It is easy to see all the sparrow, finches and other seed eaters come to our feeders. But I have noticed a variety of other birds one might not normally expect to eat seeds. Most of us know that the Yellow-rumped Warbler of the east is known as the Myrtle Warbler because of changing its diet from insects to myrtle berries when winter comes.
In Heather Farm Park near our Walnut Creek house, I scatter seeds for the sparrows as I ride my bike. Five sparrow species come out plus the Nuthatches, Scrub-Jays, Titmouses and House Finches. But most unusual is a fairly regular visit from a Sora (sometimes two), the Hermit Thrushes, sometimes a Bewick's Wren, our Yellow-rumped Warblers and last week a Common Yellow Throat. Many who have suet feeders in our yards may also see the Townsend's Warblers going there, too.
I know it is not so easy to find insects in colder weather, but find it interesting to see just which bird species one can see going after scattered seeds.
Hugh B. HarveyWalnut Creek
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Date: 11/27/23 9:27 am
From: Alexander Henry <awhenry...>
Subject: Re: [EBB-Sightings] Reflections on Birding and Biking Patterson Pass |
Having spent quite a bit of time in the Altamont Hills region since fall of
2019, I would say the following: the grass was tallest and most lush in
fall 2019-winter 2020. By summer and fall of 2021 and 2022 it was extremely
overgrazed and barren. To the point where cows were dying at a higher rate
than normal, ranchers had to put out supplemental feed much more
frequently, etc. Currently, the grass is considerably taller than it was
the last two years at this date. Hopefully if there is another wet winter
this winter, it will recover to 2019-2020 levels. It’s important to realize
that there are seasonal trends in grass height/color which can make it
harder to gauge the long term trends. But overall I would say that the
rains last winter helped immensely and currently things are significantly
better off than they were last year or the year before at this date.
On my last visit to Eastern Alameda County, I saw 3 Ferruginous Hawks - 1
on Flynn Road, 1 on Patterson Pass Road, 1 at Bethany Reservoir. While they
are certainly uncommon relative to Red-tails, they still occur in
reasonable numbers in Eastern Alameda. Data on breeding populations
suggests that they are declining in some areas but perhaps increasing in
others. Numbers of wintering birds in our area likely fluctuate
year-to-year based on prey availability and weather patterns. While there
is very likely a long-term trend toward declining numbers, I think it is
difficult to divine that from a small sample size and relatively short time
frame. Instead of despairing and catastrophizing, we should be making
efforts as individuals and as a society to minimize or mitigate our
environmental impacts and working toward incremental improvement of our
relationship with the environment.
On Sunday, November 26, 2023, Jim Chiropolos via groups.io <jnc=
<wje.com...> wrote:
> Today, I birded and biked Patterson Pass , the east bays amazing
> grasslands. The weekend is the best place to bird here as I had multiple 20
> minute periods of no cars, unlike weekdays when this is a danger high
> intensity transit corridor. I was wondering about raptor numbers after last
> years rains. Raptor number's were down and there was no green grass. I have
> been birding and biking the pass the last 10 years and am always interested
> in whats around.
> I only saw 2 loggerhead shrikes-probably an all time low count. I had two
> mountain bluebirds at the pass (and 2 at Cedar Mountain Winery (best to see
> early at the winery) - this is another species that is now hard to find.
> When I started biking the pass, I had typically counts of 50 to 100
> mountain bluebirds and they were always present- the last several years
> they have become rare and hard to find. A ferruginous hawk soared over the
> pass. This is another species that was uncommon 10 years ago- now they are
> a special sighting - I feel lucky to see one. One flock of trikes
> (tri-colored blackbirds)was by the train overpass near the power facility)
> their typical location here.
> The rarest bird seen was a vesper sparrow with a mixed sparrow flock
> perched on a fence about 1/2 mile west of the train track overpass. It flew
> into grassland behind a fence and I did not see it again.
> One prarie falcon was patrolling the area - this is an uncommon and not
> unexpected bird in the area.
> Good Birding
> Jim Chiropolos
> Orinda
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Alex Henry
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Date: 11/27/23 9:24 am
From: Bob Toleno <bob...>
Subject: [EBB-Sightings] Hayward-Fremont CBC - Sunday, Dec 17 |
I'm seeking birders to help with the Hayward-Fremont CBC on Sunday,
December 17 (yes, that's the same day as the Oakland CBC). Birders of all
experience levels are welcome, though i am hoping to find at least a few
experienced counters who would be willing to lead an area. We've lost some
leaders and volunteers this year, and so are a little shorthanded. Email me
if you're interested and available.
Bob Toleno
Hayward-Fremont CBC compiler
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Date: 11/27/23 8:55 am
From: JENNIFER FURY <jennyfuzzy...>
Subject: Re: [EBB-Sightings] Reflections on Birding and Biking Patterson Pass |
Nice report... definitely true, least amount of cars is on early weekend days...Best Regards, Jennifer Fury[cell phone email]
-------- Original message --------From: "Jim Chiropolos via groups.io" <jnc...> Date: 11/26/23 7:22 PM (GMT-08:00) To: <EBB-Sightings...> Subject: [EBB-Sightings] Reflections on Birding and Biking Patterson Pass Today, I birded and biked Patterson Pass , the east bays amazing grasslands. The weekend is the best place to bird here as I had multiple 20 minute periods of no cars, unlike weekdays when this is a danger high intensity transit corridor. I was wondering about raptor numbers after last years rains. Raptor number's were down and there was no green grass. I have been birding and biking the pass the last 10 years and am always interested in whats around.I only saw 2 loggerhead shrikes-probably an all time low count. I had two mountain bluebirds at the pass (and 2 at Cedar Mountain Winery (best to see early at the winery) - this is another species that is now hard to find. When I started biking the pass, I had typically counts of 50 to 100 mountain bluebirds and they were always present- the last several years they have become rare and hard to find. A ferruginous hawk soared over the pass. This is another species that was uncommon 10 years ago- now they are a special sighting - I feel lucky to see one. One flock of trikes (tri-colored blackbirds)was by the train overpass near the power facility) their typical location here.The rarest bird seen was a vesper sparrow with a mixed sparrow flock perched on a fence about 1/2 mile west of the train track overpass. It flew into grassland behind a fence and I did not see it again.One prarie falcon was patrolling the area - this is an uncommon and not unexpected bird in the area.Good BirdingJim Chiropolos Orinda
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Date: 11/26/23 7:22 pm
From: Jim Chiropolos via groups.io <jnc...>
Subject: [EBB-Sightings] Reflections on Birding and Biking Patterson Pass |
Today, I birded and biked Patterson Pass , the east bays amazing grasslands. The weekend is the best place to bird here as I had multiple 20 minute periods of no cars, unlike weekdays when this is a danger high intensity transit corridor. I was wondering about raptor numbers after last years rains. Raptor number's were down and there was no green grass. I have been birding and biking the pass the last 10 years and am always interested in whats around.
I only saw 2 loggerhead shrikes-probably an all time low count. I had two mountain bluebirds at the pass (and 2 at Cedar Mountain Winery (best to see early at the winery) - this is another species that is now hard to find. When I started biking the pass, I had typically counts of 50 to 100 mountain bluebirds and they were always present- the last several years they have become rare and hard to find. A ferruginous hawk soared over the pass. This is another species that was uncommon 10 years ago- now they are a special sighting - I feel lucky to see one. One flock of trikes (tri-colored blackbirds)was by the train overpass near the power facility) their typical location here.
The rarest bird seen was a vesper sparrow with a mixed sparrow flock perched on a fence about 1/2 mile west of the train track overpass. It flew into grassland behind a fence and I did not see it again.
One prarie falcon was patrolling the area - this is an uncommon and not unexpected bird in the area.
Good Birding
Jim Chiropolos
Orinda
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Date: 11/26/23 5:59 pm
From: Sam Zuckerman <samzuckerman...>
Subject: [EBB-Sightings] Three loon day at San Leandro Marina. |
Three species of loons have been reported in recent days at Mulford Point in the San Leandro Marina. What a treat to find all three there this morning, Common, Pacific, and Red-throated (https://ebird.org/checklist/S155268489). As if that weren't enough, Bob Dunn found a Red-necked Grebe at the point before I arrived and it was still patroling the riprap around the point while I was there. Not bad.
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Date: 11/25/23 8:47 am
From: <ebarker101...>
Subject: [EBB-Sightings] Bald Eagle at Crab Cove |
Yesterday afternoon a Bald Eagle came flying over the beach at Crab Cove in Alameda causing a panic amongst the geese and shorebirds. EBRPD Naturalist, Michael Charnofsky happened to be present and said he expected that it was one of the eagles that nested at the golf course in Bay Farm last year, the male. Apparently the female has not been seen in some time, but the male has been making appearances lately.
https://www.inaturalist.org/observations/192083136
Eric Barker
Alameda
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Date: 11/22/23 3:46 pm
From: RON & MARILYN MODAFFERI <tahoemod...>
Subject: [EBB-Sightings] China Berry Tree Berries are bird ripe "Edible" |
Our neighbor's tree, I believe, a "China Berry Tree", hangs over a fence into our backyard. To my surprise!!; early this afternoon, I saw like 40+ robins and 4+ flickers "bailing out/(trading?) of that tree" to other "places".
How would "ONE" (do/does) count/enumerate the number of robins I observed?????? Many, lots, a flock, or too many to count, or just throw out a number?? .The berries must have just become (#1) "RIPE" and attractive/edible or (#2) their consumers just happened to be passing through and needing to eat/food? Who will come next? Likely, waxwings?
I think, last evening, I happened to see some robins working over our backyard lawn.
I'm anticipating similar berry eating reports; soon.
Observation location:1/2 mile north of the Alamo's, Safeway, just east of Danville Blvd.
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Date: 11/22/23 8:46 am
From: Zac Denning <zdenning1...>
Subject: Re: [EBB-Sightings] Catbird |
The Gray Catbird continues this morning at
(37.9116588, -122.2695812).
Zac Denning
Albany
On Tue, Nov 21, 2023 at 2:14 PM Graham Chisholm <graham.chisholm...>
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> The Gray Catbird continues at 2:00 pm today the spot describe by John
> Luther below (gps: 37.911756 -122.269607). Listen for its soft meowing
> call.
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> Thank you John and Erica!
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> Graham Chisholm
> Berkeley
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> On Nov 20, 2023, at 8:43 PM, John Luther <aplomado-falcon...> wrote:
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> Gray Catbird in Tilden near Jewel Lake gave a great performance this
> evening when at 4:22 PM it perched at eye level in the open on north side
> of Upper Packrat trail at GPS spot given in previous posts. It was in the
> open loudly calling about 4 feet from four of us as we watched it for about
> 2 minutes. It then moved west and then south as it flew across the trail
> and continued frequently calling from the south side of the trail.
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Date: 11/21/23 5:16 pm
From: rosita94598 via groups.io <rosita94598...>
Subject: [EBB-Sightings] Jersey Island and one Cattle Egret |
A couple of us drove Jersey Island Road this afternoon having trouble to find cattle and Cattle Egrets. We drove the levee and not far from the ferry landing we finally found some cattle, some of them distant. With a few of the much closer cattle was one Cattle Egret. We drove to the landing, then drove toward Piper Slough beyond Bethel Island. Nothing special except a number of Kestrels, Red-tailed Hawks and Starling/Blackbird flocks on the wires.
Hugh B. HarveyWalnut Creek
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Date: 11/21/23 2:14 pm
From: Graham Chisholm <graham.chisholm...>
Subject: Re: [EBB-Sightings] Catbird |
The Gray Catbird continues at 2:00 pm today the spot describe by John Luther below (gps: 37.911756 -122.269607). Listen for its soft meowing call.
Thank you John and Erica!
Graham Chisholm
Berkeley
> On Nov 20, 2023, at 8:43 PM, John Luther <aplomado-falcon...> wrote:
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> Gray Catbird in Tilden near Jewel Lake gave a great performance this evening when at 4:22 PM it perched at eye level in the open on north side of Upper Packrat trail at GPS spot given in previous posts. It was in the open loudly calling about 4 feet from four of us as we watched it for about 2 minutes. It then moved west and then south as it flew across the trail and continued frequently calling from the south side of the trail.
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Date: 11/20/23 8:43 pm
From: John Luther <aplomado-falcon...>
Subject: [EBB-Sightings] Catbird |
Gray Catbird in Tilden near Jewel Lake gave a great performance this evening when at 4:22 PM it perched at eye level in the open on north side of Upper Packrat trail at GPS spot given in previous posts. It was in the open loudly calling about 4 feet from four of us as we watched it for about 2 minutes. It then moved west and then south as it flew across the trail and continued frequently calling from the south side of the trail.
John Luther Oakland
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Date: 11/20/23 2:05 pm
From: David Quady and Nancy Boas <davequady...>
Subject: [EBB-Sightings] Gray Catbird persists in Tilden RP; Contra Costa County |
Hi, birders:
The Gray Catbird found yesterday by Erica Rutherford and John Colbert reluctantly appeared at 1:20 pm this afternoon, at the coordinates Ethan Monk posted: 37.911756,-122.269607. This spot is reached by hiking downhill to the dam at the lower end of Jewel Lake, then turning back uphill along the west side of the lake on the Lower Packrat Trail and taking the right-hand fork onto the Upper Packrat Trail, a hundred yards or so uphill from the lake.
It is a skulker. Good luck.
Dave Quady
Berkeley, California
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Date: 11/20/23 12:56 pm
From: Hilary Powers <hilary...>
Subject: Re: [EBB-Sightings] CATBIRD Jewel lake |
On 11/20/2023 12:48 PM, Dominik Mosur wrote:
> Jewelake is in Contra Costa County.
Lordy - so it is. I never looked at the county lines before; just
assumed everything I could get to that easily was Alameda County. Sorry
for the error - it really is a cool sighting, regardless of the county.
>
> DM
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> On Mon, Nov 20, 2023 at 12:48 Hilary Powers
> <hilary...> wrote:
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> On 11/20/2023 9:07 AM, Ethan Monk wrote:
>> Yesterday evening late Erica Rutherford and John Colbert found a
>> Gray Catbird at Jewel Lake. They and Emilie Strauss have refound
>> it this morning here: 37.911756,-122.269607
>>
>> This is a first county record. Congratulations Erica and John!
> Cool sighting - but not a first. Quoting Glen Tepke from a message
> on this list, October 16, 2010:
>> Mark Rauzon found a Gray Catbird about 9:30 this morning in Dimond Park
>> in Oakland, while we were doing a bird survey for Friends of Sausal
>> Creek.
> His photos are here: https://www.pbase.com/gtepke/gray_catbird_101016
>
> I was there and saw the bird myself! It lingered for about a week,
> drawing crowds to the park....
>
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Date: 11/20/23 12:49 pm
From: Dominik Mosur <dominikmosur...>
Subject: Re: [EBB-Sightings] CATBIRD Jewel lake |
Jewelake is in Contra Costa County.
DM
On Mon, Nov 20, 2023 at 12:48 Hilary Powers <hilary...>
wrote:
> On 11/20/2023 9:07 AM, Ethan Monk wrote:
>
> Yesterday evening late Erica Rutherford and John Colbert found a Gray
> Catbird at Jewel Lake. They and Emilie Strauss have refound it this morning
> here: 37.911756,-122.269607
>
> This is a first county record. Congratulations Erica and John!
>
> Cool sighting - but not a first. Quoting Glen Tepke from a message on this
> list, October 16, 2010:
>
> Mark Rauzon found a Gray Catbird about 9:30 this morning in Dimond Park
> in Oakland, while we were doing a bird survey for Friends of Sausal
> Creek.
>
> His photos are here: https://www.pbase.com/gtepke/gray_catbird_101016
>
> I was there and saw the bird myself! It lingered for about a week, drawing
> crowds to the park....
>
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Date: 11/20/23 12:48 pm
From: Hilary Powers <hilary...>
Subject: Re: [EBB-Sightings] CATBIRD Jewel lake |
On 11/20/2023 9:07 AM, Ethan Monk wrote:
> Yesterday evening late Erica Rutherford and John Colbert found a Gray
> Catbird at Jewel Lake. They and Emilie Strauss have refound it this
> morning here: 37.911756,-122.269607
>
> This is a first county record. Congratulations Erica and John!
Cool sighting - but not a first. Quoting Glen Tepke from a message on
this list, October 16, 2010:
> Mark Rauzon found a Gray Catbird about 9:30 this morning in Dimond Park
> in Oakland, while we were doing a bird survey for Friends of Sausal
> Creek.
His photos are here: https://www.pbase.com/gtepke/gray_catbird_101016
I was there and saw the bird myself! It lingered for about a week,
drawing crowds to the park....
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Date: 11/20/23 9:07 am
From: Ethan Monk <z.querula...>
Subject: [EBB-Sightings] CATBIRD Jewel lake |
Yesterday evening late Erica Rutherford and John Colbert found a Gray Catbird at Jewel Lake. They and Emilie Strauss have refound it this morning here: 37.911756,-122.269607
This is a first county record. Congratulations Erica and John!
Ethan Monk
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Date: 11/19/23 8:11 am
From: Dominik Mosur <dominikmosur...>
Subject: [EBB-Sightings] Lapland Longspur Clifton Court 11/19/23 |
This may be a tough one to relocate but just wanted to get the word out that there is LAPLAND Longspur at Clifton Court forebay.
From the parking area I walked to mm 7.5 and was scanning the bay when I heard and then saw the longspur flying around off the water. It looped toward the field that is west of the main reservoir.
Lots of other interesting birds to look at out here as well.
Good luck,
Dominik Mosur
San Francisco
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Date: 11/14/23 3:58 pm
From: rosita94598 via groups.io <rosita94598...>
Subject: [EBB-Sightings] Continuing Long-tailed duck Oakland |
Rosita and i drove after lunch into Oakland and Port View Park to search for the Long-tailed duck. The park is at the west end of 7th Street which may be filled with trucks with shipping containers. There is parking next to the International Maritime Center, which is a seaman's club. During my sailing days I visited a number of these kinds of clubs overseas, but living in Walnut Creek I just went home when my ship was in Oakland.
We walked to the small building to the west called Room With A View. Upstairs is an interesting small history display of the Port of Oakland, but more importantly the bathrooms are downstairs. Because of the sun reflection, we walked west through a large gate and stopped about even with a US Customs building on the other side of the fence. This is a little past the end of a line of trees.
We scoped and used binoculars looking at many Surf Scoters, some Buffleheads and gulls. Rosita found the Long--tailed Duck first with her binoculars and told me the general direction. Sure enough, we watched it bobbing, preening, diving and generally making us happy. Rosita made a phone video through the scope, but I have not yet seen it.
I had not been out this direction for a long time. In 2001 my ship Lurline docked along 7th Street, but later Matson moved to the estuary. I drove Rosita into Middle Harbor Shoreline, which appeared to have a good number of birds on the rocks and mud flats. We did not stop to look, though.
Hugh B. HarveyWalnut Creek
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Date: 11/13/23 3:43 pm
From: Cathy Bleier <csbleier...>
Subject: [EBB-Sightings] Bonaparte’s Gull at Aquatic Park |
Birding by bike a bit today, I had great views of a Bonaparte’s Gull flying near east shore of the bottom half of the big lagoon at Aquatic Park: black scapular stripes, black tail edge and trailing edges of the wings, and black bill, eye and spot behind eye. Didn’t find Surfbirds in their usual spot halfway between the overpass and Pt Emery but instead a big clump of Sanderlings (which I have not found as often as I used to there) and Black Turnstones on the rocks, with a couple Black-bellied Plovers and Willets thrown in. No luck on Harris Sparrow or Longspurs at Berkeley Meadow or Cesar Chavez, and ducks too far out with binocs to see anything unusual.
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Date: 11/13/23 8:23 am
From: Becky Flanigan <musicfan4005...>
Subject: [EBB-Sightings] Pine Siskin |
I just had my first pine siskin at my feeders and fountain this am. Wondering if this is early or late and do we expect large numbers? Should I buy more seeds? Thanks!
Becky Flanigan
Oakland
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Date: 11/12/23 5:53 pm
From: David Quady and Nancy Boas <davequady...>
Subject: [EBB-Sightings] Red Crossbills in Tilden, near the bottom of Golf Course Road |
EBBers:
At about 9:30 this morning, Wendy Beers detected two Red Crossbills atop a conifer along Wildcat Canyon Road in Tilden Regional Park, just across the road from the small parking lot at the base of Golf Course Road.
Apologies for not posting earlier; Wendy has posted to eBird, but that report hasn’t shown up on my machine yet.
Dave Quady
Berkeley, California
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Date: 11/12/23 3:36 pm
From: Zac Denning <zdenning1...>
Subject: Re: [EBB-Sightings] Vollmer Peak - Red Crossbills |
Update: the 3 Red Crossbills recorded later in the morning yesterday at
Vollmer Peak have been confirmed as Type 2 / Ponderosa Pine, which I
understand is the most expected type in our area. While the recording was
faint and not high quality (recorded on Merlin using my phone), I was able
to boost the frequencies with the crossbill calls enough for the sonogram
to be identifiable.
Zac Denning
Albany
On Sat, Nov 11, 2023 at 12:46 PM Zac Denning via groups.io <zdenning1=
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> I was up early today, so I headed up to Vollmer Peak, arriving at 6:40
> right before sunrise to look for crossbills. I heard and saw my first group
> of 5 birds at about 6:45, swirling around the top of a distant pine on the
> West slope, making their jip-jip-jip calls. Around 10am, another smaller
> group (~3) passed over a line of pine trees along the bottom of the Vollmer
> Peak trail, not far from the parking lot.
>
> The day was clear and lovely, and the birding, while not fast paced, was
> rewarding. Highlights include Varied Thrushes calling, flocks of siskins,
> Band-tailed pigeons, Red-winged Blackbirds and White-throated Swifts (I
> estimated 52). I also saw American White Pelicans and cormorants in the
> distance on Briones Reservoir, a Red-breasted Sapsucker, a singing
> California Thrasher, a calling Pacific Wren from the Northeast slope below
> the Vollmer Peak Trail, and the usual assortment of forest and coastal
> scrub birds.
>
> I might have heard an Evening Grosbeak calling twice distantly at 6:40
> from the ridge West of the Vollmer parking lot, but I left that off the
> list since I wasn't totally confident in the ID. Still, it would be worth
> keeping an ear and eye out for them, since they've been reported from sea
> watches and high points around the bay lately.
>
> Also a highlight was running into a group of birders / hikers including
> Oakland CBC leader Sue Cox, who leads a wonderful count area including the
> Oakland Zoo.
>
> Ebird list from my day:
> https://ebird.org/checklist/S154229332
>
> Happy birding,
>
> Zac Denning
> Albany
>
>
>
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Date: 11/12/23 3:18 pm
From: RON & MARILYN MODAFFERI <tahoemod...>
Subject: [EBB-Sightings] Killdeer Behavior |
Most Sunday mornings we do an hours worth of laps around the track at Las Lomas High.
It seems, that on many occasions, I notice one (of 2) killdeer in the baseball field outfield. If memory serves me correctly, one is in nearly the exact same spot every time. It stays in that same spot the 12 times I lap the tract. Apparently, it has a strong affinity to that same spot! Is that behavior common?
It reminds me of the allegiance male American woodcock have to their landing spot on their "singing ground" performances. After "taking off" in the same direction every time, they fly up hundreds of feet, descend in J shaped flights while "singing" and land within the exact/same 3-5 foot square.
Canada geese also frequent the baseball field at Las Lomas. Nearly every (week) time I'm there, feathers are distributed around the infield. The geese must be feeding "someone".
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Date: 11/12/23 6:49 am
From: Sam Zuckerman <samzuckerman...>
Subject: Re: [EBB-Sightings] Late? Western Tanager |
In mid-December 2021, we saw and photographed a Western Tanager at the UC Berkeley Botanical Gardens during the Christmas Bird Count. A surprising find, to say the least.
https://ebird.org/checklist/S99154733
> On 11/11/2023 1:06 PM PST Dominik Mosur <dominikmosur...> wrote:
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> Hi Jaan,
>
> It is indeed late to see a western tanager migrating through our area. There’s a good likelihood the bird you observed is going to winter locally. Keep an eye out for it I’m your neighborhood. Sites with Flowering or fruiting exotics (eucalyptus, arbutus etc) would be places to look.
>
> Dominik
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>
> On Sat, Nov 11, 2023 at 13:01 Jaan Lepson viahttp://groups.io <lepson...> mailto:<berkeley.edu...> wrote:
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> > I just returned from a long trip, and was surprised to hear a Western Tanager in the neighbor’s redwoods. I don’t ever recall encountering them at this time of year. Fall sightings in general have been very rare for me, but I had a lot this year.
> >
> > Jaan Lepson
> > Livermore
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Date: 11/11/23 1:06 pm
From: Dominik Mosur <dominikmosur...>
Subject: Re: [EBB-Sightings] Late? Western Tanager |
Hi Jaan,
It is indeed late to see a western tanager migrating through our area.
There’s a good likelihood the bird you observed is going to winter locally.
Keep an eye out for it I’m your neighborhood. Sites with Flowering or
fruiting exotics (eucalyptus, arbutus etc) would be places to look.
Dominik
On Sat, Nov 11, 2023 at 13:01 Jaan Lepson via groups.io <lepson=
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> I just returned from a long trip, and was surprised to hear a Western
> Tanager in the neighbor’s redwoods. I don’t ever recall encountering them
> at this time of year. Fall sightings in general have been very rare for me,
> but I had a lot this year.
>
> Jaan Lepson
> Livermore
>
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Date: 11/11/23 1:01 pm
From: Jaan Lepson via groups.io <lepson...>
Subject: [EBB-Sightings] Late? Western Tanager |
I just returned from a long trip, and was surprised to hear a Western Tanager in the neighbor’s redwoods. I don’t ever recall encountering them at this time of year. Fall sightings in general have been very rare for me, but I had a lot this year.
Jaan Lepson
Livermore
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Date: 11/11/23 12:46 pm
From: Zac Denning <zdenning1...>
Subject: [EBB-Sightings] Vollmer Peak - Red Crossbills |
I was up early today, so I headed up to Vollmer Peak, arriving at 6:40
right before sunrise to look for crossbills. I heard and saw my first group
of 5 birds at about 6:45, swirling around the top of a distant pine on the
West slope, making their jip-jip-jip calls. Around 10am, another smaller
group (~3) passed over a line of pine trees along the bottom of the Vollmer
Peak trail, not far from the parking lot.
The day was clear and lovely, and the birding, while not fast paced, was
rewarding. Highlights include Varied Thrushes calling, flocks of siskins,
Band-tailed pigeons, Red-winged Blackbirds and White-throated Swifts (I
estimated 52). I also saw American White Pelicans and cormorants in the
distance on Briones Reservoir, a Red-breasted Sapsucker, a singing
California Thrasher, a calling Pacific Wren from the Northeast slope below
the Vollmer Peak Trail, and the usual assortment of forest and coastal
scrub birds.
I might have heard an Evening Grosbeak calling twice distantly at 6:40 from
the ridge West of the Vollmer parking lot, but I left that off the list
since I wasn't totally confident in the ID. Still, it would be worth
keeping an ear and eye out for them, since they've been reported from sea
watches and high points around the bay lately.
Also a highlight was running into a group of birders / hikers including
Oakland CBC leader Sue Cox, who leads a wonderful count area including the
Oakland Zoo.
Ebird list from my day:
https://ebird.org/checklist/S154229332
Happy birding,
Zac Denning
Albany
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Date: 11/11/23 8:56 am
From: JENNIFER FURY <jennyfuzzy...>
Subject: Re: [EBB-Sightings] Wilson's Snipe at the Tilden Botanic Garden |
Thank you, fascinating...Best Regards, Jennifer Fury[cell phone email]
-------- Original message --------From: Lee Friedman <lfried6...> Date: 11/10/23 3:12 PM (GMT-08:00) To: <EBB-Sightings...> Subject: [EBB-Sightings] Wilson's Snipe at the Tilden Botanic Garden
A Wilson’s Snipe was sitting in the Tilden Botanic Garden this morning at 10AM. This is only the fourth sighting of it here since 2015, the previous one almost exactly a year ago. All four sightings occurred during the same period of the year October 31 – November 25. I don’t know if it will hang around for a bit, but thought it worth this note. It was located in the southwest quadrant of the garden, on the southern edge of the steeply-sloped grassy area closest to the southwest corner.
Photo: https://www.flickr.com/photos/99583878@N06/53322418617/in/dateposted-public/
Good birding,
Lee Friedman
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Date: 11/10/23 3:41 pm
From: Kay Loughman <kayloughman...>
Subject: [EBB-Sightings] Too many siskina |
With 20-40 Pine Siskins showing up daily at each of my seed feeders for
the last several weeks, I've long-since gotten over being pleased to see
them. I may have to take down the feeders for a while - thereby
depriving other species of food. I'd happily entertain other ideas for
humanely encouraging the siskins to move on. Your thoughts appreciated.
Kay Loughman
in the hills on the Berkeley/Oakland border
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Date: 11/10/23 3:12 pm
From: Lee Friedman <lfried6...>
Subject: [EBB-Sightings] Wilson's Snipe at the Tilden Botanic Garden |
A Wilson’s Snipe was sitting in the Tilden Botanic Garden this morning at 10AM. This is only the fourth sighting of it here since 2015, the previous one almost exactly a year ago. All four sightings occurred during the same period of the year October 31 – November 25. I don’t know if it will hang around for a bit, but thought it worth this note. It was located in the southwest quadrant of the garden, on the southern edge of the steeply-sloped grassy area closest to the southwest corner.
Photo: https://www.flickr.com/photos/99583878@N06/53322418617/in/dateposted-public/
Good birding,
Lee Friedman
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Date: 11/8/23 4:04 pm
From: Ethan Monk <z.querula...>
Subject: [EBB-Sightings] Late season flight |
This morning with the clear weather and light north to north-east winds I headed to Pt. San Pablo and enjoyed a good flight. I was almost surprised to have nothing “mountainy” considering this season and the number of birds moving this morning! Birds fly NW down the ridge line of Pt. San Pablo, and upon reaching the tip extending into the bay, many (or on days like today, most to all) will launch themselves NW out over the bay heading into Marin.
A list of birds crossing the bay today is as follows:
210 Band-tails
1 Red-b Sapsucker
1 Mockingbird, I can’t recall seeing a mockingbird participate in this sort of diurnal migration, besides a lost bird I watched arrive off the ocean at Pt. Reyes several years ago.
5 Tree Swallow
199 Starling
97 Varied Thrush
241 Robin
48 Robin/Varied
77 Waxwing
83 Pipit
34 House and 17 Purple Finch
4 Siskin
15 Lesser and 5 American Goldfinch
25 “Oregon” Juncos
and 110 Yellow-rumps, 39 of these I assigned to Myrtle, 7 Audubon’s.
In other news on Nov. 4 in Alamo I discovered an immature male Costa’s Hummingbird in a private backyard. Unfortunately the next time I’ll be able to check on this bird is in a couple weeks, and there are no feeders around that I could find so I suspect that this bird will not be seen again… This is probably around the fourth Costa’s I have seen in Alamo, although the others were all at my feeders!
Ethan Monk
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Date: 11/8/23 10:42 am
From: Jim Chiropolos via groups.io <jnc...>
Subject: [EBB-Sightings] Add Golden Kinglets to the 2023 East Bay Interruptions |
In addition to the 2023 Pine Siskin interruption- this has been a very good fall for Golden Crowned Kinglets. After not seeing (and hearing any) in the east bay at least the last two years, they are all over the place this year. I have seen them on Vollmer and Inspiration Point plus my yard multiple times already in the Berkeley Hills as well as Diablo.
Unlike the finches, I wonder what conditions cause GC Kinglets to interrupt - they certainly seemingly did not like the recent drought years! (Is it insect food being more abundant after last years record rains?) I also am seeing many more Townsends warblers in the Berkeley Hills this year compared to the last several drought years (last year there were very few wintering in the east bay hills).
There are also crossbills around- a group flew over my house “jip” calling yesterday.
It’s fascinating seeing how the birds respond to local and range wide conditions.
Jim Chiropolos
Orinda below Vollmer
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Date: 11/6/23 7:52 am
From: annemarie heineman via groups.io <annemarie1000...>
Subject: Re: [EBB-Sightings] Palm Warbler at Middle Harbor |
I saw the Townsend’s, as well as Yellow-Rumped warblers at our fountain yesterday in South Berkeley (and Lesser Goldfinch and House Finch. My 1st time posting!Annemarie
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Date: 11/5/23 2:02 pm
From: Sam Zuckerman <samzuckerman...>
Subject: [EBB-Sightings] Palm Warbler at Middle Harbor |
Dean LaTray found a Palm Warbler at Middle Harbor Shoreline in Oakland Saturday when evereyone else was chasing rarities in Berkeley. The bird was there again today around noon, appearing briefly in the midst of a burst of Yellow-rumped activity. Here's checklist with photo from today: https://ebird.org/checklist/S153843755
And here are the coordinates: 37.80292, -122.3244. The location is near the shoreline between the two stone jettied right before the path jogs to the right to reach the point.
Remarkably, Dean also found a Tropical Kingbird Saturday, but that bird did not have the courtesy to show up today.
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Date: 11/4/23 11:48 am
From: Ethan Monk <z.querula...>
Subject: [EBB-Sightings] Cassin's Finch(s?) |
This morning I had a couple encounters with Cassin's Finch in the first
half a mile or so of Green Ranch Road west of Summit Trail, not Summit
Road, on Mt. Diablo including a nice experience with a male. I am unsure
how many individuals were involved. Please note that Robert Raffel and John
Toldi had a female Cassin's Finch at this location 2023-10-24. Two
Thick-billed Fox Sparrows also came to the drip where Green Ranch Rd. meets
Summit Trail in the gully below the picnic benches. This is the only
location Thick-billed Fox Sparrows currently occur with any regularity in
Contra Costa County as Robert Raffel discovered a few years back.
I did not check elsewhere on the mountain for Townsend's Solitaires. The
weekend crowds were crazy.
Ethan Monk
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Date: 11/3/23 6:02 pm
From: Jim Chiropolos via groups.io <jnc...>
Subject: [EBB-Sightings] Band Tailed Pigeons - Big movement tofay |
Many Band Tailed Pigeon flocks are flying south today over the east side of the Berkeley hills.
I saw almost 200 band tails in flocks this morning before 9 am with average flock size 10 to 20 birds. (Then I biked up Diablo- and not a single band was to be seen).
Tonight, the flocks south are larger as more groups are flying south. I have seen another 200 only occasionally looking up this evening. I don’t remember band tails migrating in the late afternoon/early evening before.
Until today, I have not noticed a significant movement of band-tails over the house. The larger flocks of 60 or more band tails are spectacular!
Its interesting- band tails favor live oaks while acorn woodpeckers seem to favor blue and valley oaks, but acorns are a staple for each species. Two species very dependent on acorns but band tails are common to abundant in the Berkeley hills, uncommon on Diablo/Diamond Mines and rarest on Mines road furthest east. Acorn woodpeckers reverse those trends.
Jim Chiropolos
below Vollmer peak
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Date: 11/3/23 10:52 am
From: East Bay Birding <eastbaybirding...>
Subject: [EBB-Sightings] Harris’s Sparrow - Berkeley Meadow |
Found by Louis S. yesterday, there is a Harris’s Sparrow around the west entrance to Berkeley Meadow, across from the Doubletree on Marina Blvd, seen also this morning.
John
Oakland
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Date: 11/3/23 9:26 am
From: Kay Loughman <kayloughman...>
Subject: [EBB-Sightings] Pine Siskin Irruption |
Forwarding from the Lindsay Museum:
"Due to a poor to below average cone crop in the boreal forests
of Canada this year, The Finch Research Network’s “crop report”
predicts a pine siskin irruption (sudden population increase,
frequently due to mass movement due to food shortages). Birders
in some Nor Cal discussion groups have reported flocks as large
as 50 in the Sacramento area. Last time there was an irruption
(December 2020 - February 2021) we saw over 100 pine siskins,
most with salmonella. Please remember to practice good feeder
hygiene to help prevent spread of disease."
Assuming this message is a bit tardy, as many people (myself
included) have been reporting huge numbers of siskins at their
feeders for several weeks. So keep those feeders clean folks.
Kay Loughman
In the hills on the Berkeley/Oakland border
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Date: 11/2/23 3:24 pm
From: Doug Greenberg <doug.greenberg50...>
Subject: [EBB-Sightings] White-throated sparrows back for third straight winter |
The past two winters I have enjoyed observing two White-throated sparrows in my south Berkeley back yard. One is a white-striped type, the other is tan-striped. They have made themselves at home feeding at our back deck railing feeding station. They arrive in early November and depart around the second week of April. Yesterday, November 1, I spotted a white-striped White-throated, and today I saw a tan-striped. I cannot prove these are the same birds for the third winter in a row, but I sure think they are. White-throated sparrows are not "rare," but they are unusual enough to be noteworthy, and I am convinced these are "my" birds, back again. As such, it strikes me as amazing how these small, delicate creatures can migrate long distances back and forth with such precision several years in succession (I actually don't know where these birds spend the summer)
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Date: 11/1/23 1:19 pm
From: rosita94598 via groups.io <rosita94598...>
Subject: [EBB-Sightings] coming into winter Walnut Creek |
Some of our winter residents are showing in Heather Farm Park now. A Common Gallinule is here, but only two Coots. Last week we had five Ring-necked Ducks, today it was eleven. The numbers of Buffleheads has fluctuated, sometimes a pair, sometimes two females; today it was one male. A few DC Cormorants have been around, a male Wood Duck was present one day, pretty much every day is a Kingfisher, and Killdeer numbers vary on the north ball field. Not all of these birds were seen by me.
Participants in an MDAS beginners trip this morning were able to see an adult Cooper's Hawk on a snag. They spent almost three hours walking around. Their eBird list is here: https://ebird.org/checklist/S153540191
Yesterday I walked with Steve B on Mount Diablo's Green Ranch Road, attempting to see the Bell's Sparrow reported last week. While that did not work, we had some good if brief glimpses of Wrentits. No photos. https://ebird.org/checklist/S153480683
And in our small patio north of Heather Farm, we have continued to have our visiting White-breasted Nuthatch. Sometimes it likes the peanut feeder, sometimes the seeds.
Hugh B. HarveyWalnut Creek
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Date: 10/31/23 8:14 pm
From: Joyce Rybandt <jrybandt...>
Subject: [EBB-Sightings] Surf Scoter at Cesar Chavez Park |
I saw a single Surf Scoter today in a raft of Bufflehead and Scaup in the
body of water east of Cesar Chavez Park. I hope this is a worthy post.
Joyce Rybandt
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Date: 10/31/23 5:02 pm
From: JENNIFER FURY <jennyfuzzy...>
Subject: [EBB-Sightings] Common Loons are back |
On the bay, 3 on Sunday, between Emeryville and Berkeley about 1 mile out from shore , Access via kayak...Best Regards, Jennifer Fury[cell phone email]
-------- Original message --------From: W Hudson <wllm2...> Date: 10/31/23 3:27 PM (GMT-08:00) To: <EBB-Sightings...> Subject: Re: [EBB-Sightings] Pine Siskins Cassin's Finch
Pine Siskin group of 20 and of 10 in Orinda. Also this morning a
Cassin's Finch, couldn't get a good picture and not one I've seen
more than 1-2x but I had 2 good looks and don't think there is
anything like that head.
William Hudson
Orinda
On 10/27/2023 9:55 AM, photohutch
wrote:
Lots of Siskins in Alamo, as well. Haven't seen this many in
several years. Almost lost one at my feeder, as a Sharpie
attacked and missed.
Steve Hutchcraft
Alamo, CA
On 10/14/2023 4:39 PM PDT John Luther
<aplomado-falcon...> wrote:
A large flock of Pine
Siskins arrived today with at least 50 at my feeders and
bird baths.
John Luther
Oakland hills on Exeter Dr
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Date: 10/31/23 3:27 pm
From: W Hudson <wllm2...>
Subject: Re: [EBB-Sightings] Pine Siskins Cassin's Finch |
Pine Siskin group of 20 and of 10 in Orinda. Also this morning a
Cassin's Finch, couldn't get a good picture and not one I've seen more
than 1-2x but I had 2 good looks and don't think there is anything like
that head.
William Hudson
Orinda
On 10/27/2023 9:55 AM, photohutch wrote:
> Lots of Siskins in Alamo, as well. Haven't seen this many in several
> years. Almost lost one at my feeder, as a Sharpie attacked and missed.
> Steve Hutchcraft
> Alamo, CA
>> On 10/14/2023 4:39 PM PDT John Luther <aplomado-falcon...> wrote:
>> A large flock of Pine Siskins arrived today with at least 50 at my
>> feeders and bird baths.
>> John Luther
>> Oakland hills on Exeter Dr
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