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Swainson’s Thrush - Antioch yard - 5/5
Paul Schorr
This morning we had our FOS Swainson’s Thrush show up in our yard and it has remained throughout the day.
Good birding, Paul Schorr Antioch |
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Alameda Brown Booby continues Saturday afternoon
David Quady and Nancy Boas
Birders:
Immediately after reading Jim Lomax’s post to the County Birders list serve I headed out the door, forgetting my binoculars in the process. I found a parking place at the intersection of West Hornet Avenue and Viking Street in Alameda, walked to the edge of the bay, and stationed myself at the southwest corner of Hornet Soccer Field. I got the Brown Booby in my scope at 12:40 pm as it foraged in waters between the shoreline and the breakwater. Then I took my eyes off the bird, and it disappeared … but only for a few minutes. After re-locating it I watched it off and on until 1:00 pm, when it flew west along the breakwater and landed atop it quite some distance away, west of the gap in the breakwater. So I went home. The bird ranged over quite a large area, on either side of the breakwater, once far enough northwest to be lost to view behind the new ferry terminal. Thanks to the folks who found and posted about the bird, and especially to Jim for his excellent directions. Dave Quady Berkeley, California davequady@... |
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GGAS First Friday Walk May 4, 2018 Tilden Nature Area
Alan Kaplan
Tilden Nature Area, Contra Costa, California, US
May 4, 2018 8:20 AM - 11:30 AM Friends! Golden Gate Audubon Society First Friday Birdwalk, May 4, 2018 Our regular birdwalk (earlier today was the Dawn Chorus themed walk at 5:30am). Guests through Meet-up today from Bangalore, Karnataka state, India. Bird(s) O' the Day: Cedar Waxwings uphill from the parking lot, and White-tailed Kites. Here are the 31 species seen by 34 observers: Mallard Wild Turkey Double-crested Cormorant flyover Turkey Vulture makes it official! White-tailed Kite Cooper's Hawk Red-shouldered Hawk Band-tailed Pigeon Allen's Hummingbird Downy Woodpecker Hairy Woodpecker Olive-sided Flycatcher Pacific-slope Flycatcher Black Phoebe Hutton's Vireo Warbling Vireo California Scrub-Jay Violet-green Swallow Brown Creeper Wrentit Western Bluebird American Robin Cedar Waxwing Orange-crowned Warbler Wilson's Warbler Dark-eyed Junco Song Sparrow California Towhee Black-headed Grosbeak Purple Finch Lesser Goldfinch Best of Boids! Alan Kaplan |
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GGAS Dawn Chorus Birdwalk May 4, 2018 Tilden Park
Alan Kaplan
Tilden Regional Park, Contra Costa, California, US
May 4, 2018 5:30 AM - 8:00 AM Friends! Golden Gate Audubon Society Dawn Chorus Birdwalk, May 4, 2018. This weekend is International Dawn Chorus Sunday and this was our 7th annual Dawn Chorus walk on the first Friday of May. Honored guests were Dave Quady, and a visitor from Ithaca, N.Y. New information (to me, anyway): Dawn conditions are more stable and make the songs heard day after day by mates and rivals sound consistent, eliminating uncertainty and challenges: Yeah, that's my guy who has survived the night! or That's my neighbor and we've got an arrangement already- no threat! Here are the 36 species seen by 25 observers: Wild Turkey Double-crested Cormorant flyover Great Blue Heron flyover Red-tailed Hawk Caspian Tern flyover Mourning Dove Great Horned Owl Acorn Woodpecker Nuttall's Woodpecker Olive-sided Flycatcher Pacific-slope Flycatcher Black Phoebe Hutton's Vireo Warbling Vireo Steller's Jay American Crow Common Raven Violet-green Swallow Chestnut-backed Chickadee Brown Creeper House Wren reliably near Blue Gum Gate Pacific Wren Bewick's Wren Swainson's Thrush American Robin European Starling Cedar Waxwing Orange-crowned Warbler Wilson's Warbler Dark-eyed Junco Song Sparrow California Towhee Spotted Towhee Black-headed Grosbeak Purple Finch Lesser Goldfinch Best of Boids! Alan Kaplan |
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Alameda County Brown Booby
John Luther
Being lazy thought I would just forward Jim's message on county birders concerning the Brown Booby in Alameda. I posted this bird on ebird last night. After Jim left the bird appeared to fly south and was not seen again that I know of. I will try to post a photo on ebird. This is the third county record. John Luther Oakland ’s up, dogs? Yesterday afternoon (May 4) I heard about the bird from John Luther who went out late to look for it. He eventually saw it about 1800 hrs. This morning we met on Alameda Island to look. We scoped from the west side of the old seaplane ramp area but could not find it on the west breakwater.. After an hour and a half John went over to the east side of the Hornet (aircraft carrier) to find out from the original spotter who does pelican counts from his kayak and had just come ashore. While there, the bird was spotted off shore and he called me. I went around to the shoreline east of the new ferry terminal (under construction) and Hornet Museum area, parked, and scoped the east breakwater and the water in between the shore and the breakwater. About 0900 the BROWN BOOBY was suddenly flying and diving in the water between the breakwater and shore. Difficult to describe but looking at a map, one would be along the shoreline south of West Hornet Avenue and west of the soccer field in Alameda Park. We watched it for 20 minutes diving, floating, and flying in the area. Then I went home. “Truckin’ like the do-dah man”, Jim Lomax Solitary Birder from No Particular Place Not at all sure where I’ve been, but I’m not starting over again. . |
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BH Grosbeak and Swainsons Thrush
Jackie Bobrosky
Yesterday (5/4) a Swainsons Thrush at my small waterfall feature/fish pond and this morning a male Black Headed Grosbeak at a birdbath. Loving May in Martinez...... Jackie Bobrosky in Old Martinez |
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East Bay Hills Warblers and Migrants
Jim Chiropolos
There have been posts from SF, the peninsula and Santa Clara about a fallout this morning. The mini-fallout also occurred in the east bay hills at my house below Vollmer. 5 hermit warblers, a Townsends, Bullocks oriole and three grosbeaks seen before I had to leave for work at 7:30 making it the best day of what has been a slow spring in the east bay (I have not seen black throated greys or Tanagers yet, heard only, unlike previous years and warbler numbers have been low the last two weeks). Hilltops or Ridge lines in Oakland Berkeley are best (Vollmer peak etc.) and the location needs a sun exposure as the East Bay fallout equation is: Wind from south + fog band below peaks = concentration of migrating birds + sun exposure at spot you are birding = active insects = gleaners fallout and is likely why most of the west facing slopes of Berkeley and Oakland are slow on fallout days. If there is a fallout, it will be over by 9 am or so as the birds disperse lower and follow the sun. It is so weather dependent..... Good luck, Jim Chiropolos Orinda |
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Re: H Farm Swallows
Logan Kahle
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Just a quick correction on the Bank Swallows. There are a few regular spots in the Bay Area: Nesting colony on the cliffs of Fort Funston. These birds often go to Lake Merced to forage Nesting colony at Ano Nuevo Dependable concentrations at Bethel Island starting about late June and peaking in mid-August, presumably staging migrants (potentially breeders from farther north in the valley along the shores of the Sacramento/Feather River?) Additionally, the species disperses throughout the region and locally stages at certain spots starting in Late June, especially in the Central Valley portions of the “Bay Area”. Just a few notes in case anyone wants to see Bank Swallows in coming months. Logan
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H Farm Swallows
rosita94598
The Swallows at Heather Farm Park in Walnut Creek do not ordinarily include Bank Swallows, but the other 5 common species might be seen: Barn, N Rough-winged, Tree, Violet-green and Cliff. This morning the Barn, Violet-green and N Rough-winged were easily visible over the pond shortly after 8 AM.
By walking out the north end of the park near the dog park and about a quarter-mile to the west along the Contra Costa Canal trail, it is easy to see where the Cliff Swallows nest under the bridge over the concrete channel of Walnut Creek. Sometimes they fly over the large, mostly natural pond, but I did not happen to see one today--which doesn't mean they were none--only that I did not see one. I am probably not correct in this, but to my knowledge, the only reliable place to see Bank Swallows in the Bay Area is Lake Merced in San Francisco and the south end of Ocean Beach where they nest. This is where I go annually to see Bank Swallows for my year list. They used to be seen at Caswell Memorial State Park, which is located between Tracy and Ripon in the Central Valley. There also used to be a reliable colony in Fall River Mills east of Burney and Mt. Shasta. I don't know if these two sites still have active Bank Swallow colonies. Hugh B. Harvey Walnut Creek |
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Swallows in Heather Farm
Matt Tarlach
On a casual walk through HF today with my pocket bins, I spotted 2 and maybe 3 types of swallows: Barn for certain, several flashy-looking adults in the oak scrub west of the Natural Pond; Bank, I think, mostly brown with white underneath and white lower face, in the same area and south of the Natural Pond; And some possibly different ones that looked like the Northern Rough-winged Swallows in my Sibley. More drab brown with less white, with very compact tails - almost swift-like - and some showing buffy under the chin like the juvenile birds drawn in Sibley. They were foraging mostly on the ground, unusual from what I've seen of swallow behavior. In the same area as the probable Bank Swallows. Are Bank and Northern Rough-winged Swallows both known to frequent HF? (I've also seen tree swallows in the past, in the same oak woods, but not this time.) Matt Tarlach
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Jay Yard Bird Stories
Jim Chiropolos
Yard Bird Stories - Scrub and Stellar’s Jays
I have often wondered which of these species is more assertive and my yard is proving to be a great location to watch the two species interact. Next to the house is gully frequented by Stellar’s Jays. The other side is more open with houses and favored by Scrub Jays, so the yard is a border used by both species.
When I hung a suet feeder, I was fascinated by the interaction. Both species used the suet feeder, but the Scrub Jays quickly asserted dominance and early on one caught a raiding Stellar’s jay and pinned its head against a tree branch with its talons and I was worried that was the end of the Stellar’s Jay (it escaped). Since that time the Stellar’s Jays still raid the feeder but very quietly, fly in low, and use all the available cover. It’s interesting, the favorite Scrub Jay perches are all carefully situated with sightlines to the suet feeder and if a Stellar’s Jay is seen, they quickly drive them away, squawking loudly. Based on this, I thought Scrub Jays were dominant over Stellar’s Jays.
Three weeks ago, I noticed the Stellar’s Jays start building a next in the wisteria, only 20 feet away from the suet feeder above the gully. Basically, the scene of their defeat at the Scrub Jays. Now completed, the nest is amazing, 5 feet up, and almost completely concealed. At one angle, I can barely see the Stellar’s Jay’s crest poking out when incubating. The Scrub Jays know the nest is there too. Sunday opened to a noisy confrontation between the pairs of Scrub and Stellar’s jays, a loud squawking face-off on the driveway just below the nest. The Stellar’s Jays were not yielding, and kept hopping towards the Scrub Jay pair 2 feet away. The Scrub Jays slowly retreated, followed by the Stellar’s Jays. In the shrub next to the nest, I watched a Stellar’s Jay do a Woodpecker imitation, demolish a small branch, with a Scrub Jay 4 feet away. That was the end of this round, a win for the nesting Stellar’s Jays!
But why would a Stellar Jay build a next near hostile Scrub Jays? If they are not diligent, the Scrub Jays will raid their next. Is a concealed nest more important compared to the near presence of an egg predator? Is this an inexperienced Stellar Jay couple? For a food source - a Scrub Jay is dominant over Stellar’s Jays, but the roles are reversed when a nest is involved. We walk our cats on a leash and we must have been characterized by the nesting Stellar’s Jays as harmless, which is also interesting as we pass by the nest at least twice a day 15 feet away, and also I park my vehicle nearby (our cats are not crazy about a reduced walk area).
Also interesting is how the Stellar’s Jays calls have changed during the nesting. No more of the “machine-gun” call, they are much quieter now. Several time a day, their favorite call is now an imitation Copper’s Hawk call from the Monterey Pine over the nest. It’s a great imitation - it’s fooled me into looking for the local nesting Cooper’s Hawk! Jim Chiropolos, Orinda
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Garin Regional Park (PAAS Field trip report)
I led my Palo Alto Adult School birding class to Gain Regional Park (Garin Rd. Entrance) for morning of overcast birding. We had many highlights during our 4 hours of birding, including several first-of-season sightings for the group.
Vaux’s Swift — (3, High Ridge Loop trail) White-throated Swift — (2, below pond) Rufous Hummingbird — (1, slightly north of pond in flowering radish meadow) Allen’s Hummingbird — (several along creek) Western Kingbird — (1, across meadow from barn) Ash-throated Flycatcher — (4, mostly in sycamores near pedestrian bridge) Pacific-slope Flycatcher — (2, along creek north and south of pedestrian bridge) Western Wood Pewee — (1, south of pedestrian bridge, just before pond) Say’s Phoebe — (2, High Ridge Loop trail) Wilson’s Warbler — (several near pedestrian bridge, but best looks below pond) Lazuli Bunting — (5, wild radish and mustard slopes north of pedestrian bridge) Grasshopper Sparrow — (4, High Ridge Loop trail) Bullock’s Oriole — (multiple pairs along creek and in tall flowering eucalyptus across from barn) Matthew Dodder Mountain View |
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Western Field Ornithologists trip to Siskiyou Mtns and Modoc Plateau
John Harris
Hi, California Birders: From 2011 through 2016, Western Field Ornithologists offered three birding trips to the Sierra Nevada and to northeastern California, each trip roughly a week long. The purposes were to see some birds, address some ornithological questions, and raise funds for this worthy non-profit organization — the publisher of the quarterly Western Birds, and the book Rare Birds of California. WFO members quickly filled all the spaces on the first three trips; none was available to non-members. So it’s an unusual situation that two slots are available to anyone for this year’s trip, Birding the Siskiyous and the Modoc Plateau, to be led by Jon Dunn, Dave Quady and me, from 16 to 24 June, beginning and ending in Redding, CA.. Click here to read the trip’s itinerary and reports from the three preceding trips. And simply click the big “Register Now” button to sign up for Birding the Siskiyous and the Modoc Plateau. Check it out … and email me if you have any questions. John Harris Oakdale, CA |
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Ballena Bay
Bob Richmond
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Re: please, I beg you, don't play recordings for Mitchell Canyon poorwills
Logan Kahle
This message didn't seem to go through, so I'm sending it
again...
Hi All,
As this topic seems to have gone public I feel like there are
a few points that should be added. For a long time the Mitchell Canyon Poorwills were a bit of
a loosely-kept secret, as access to the site was, and still
is, tricky before and after park hours. The best way to gain
access is to go with a field trip of some sort (Denise Wight
leads poorwill trips here on a regularish basis...apparently
there are trips running this year in June, July, and August.
Sign up if you want quality, ethical time with poorwills!) and
contact the park well in advance to ask if they can let you in
before or after hours. The trick is that they can open the
gate. The other legal way is to camp somewhere on the mountain
(juniper campground works well for this...it is about a 4.5
mile hike down from there to white canyon, if I recall
correctly). Its somewhat steep but also loaded with screech
owls and more poorwills, so well worth it IMHO.
As for the birds themselves, there are a few notes that
should be added:
1) If you’re at the right place, at the right time, **you
do not even need to use playback** to hear or even see these
birds. My most dependable bird is up white canyon about
midpoint between where the canopy opens into clear sky and
where you leave the chaparral (approximately here
37.9060709,-121.9554127, in essence). All of my experience is
from the morning (predawn), and if you come hear about an hour
to an hour and a half before sunrise, at least from
April-October, the bird’s (the one you can see) routine is to
call from up canyon then work its way down towards the road
and eventually sit on the road. I have done this maybe 6 or 7
times and it has always resulted in quality time with this
(presumably the same?) individual. There are often a few other
poorwills calling here, too. The other place to hear many if
you’re alright with heard-only is red road. Its closer to the
gate and there are often more of them. I havent spent as long
up that canyon but i suppose a well-timed visit could result
in views as well.
2) *Timing Matters*. Try at predawn or postdusk. I once slept up white canyon to see if the bird would call all night. It didnt. In fact, I only first heard it at about 2 hours presunrise, and then it was nonstop for a while. But anyway, if you wander down here or elsewhere at midnight hoping to hear one, even on a warm night, you may well be skunked. Please don’t use playback to compensate for poor timing. Work off the bird’s schedule, not yours! 2) These birds are all over this mountain!! Having owled a
decent amount in the coast ranges and sierra, I have never
found another spot in the diablo ranges or elsewhere as
densely-packed with poorwills as diablo. If you just want to
hear or experience the bird alone and undisturbed, just hike
any of the trails around the mountain at night on a warm
summer evening.
Finally, I am giving you all this information in hopes that, through good conduct, these birds will **not be harassed** but even just a few bad eggs who decide to push this bird a liiiittle too far for that 5 star photo or extra-close views or what have you can ruin this bird for all others. Please be conscientious. These birds are not shy. You do not need to harass them to get within feet of them. Hope you all can get out there at some point this summer
and experience one of the mountain’s many hidden treasures.
Good birding,
Logan Kahle
San Francisco/Richmond, CA
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Re: Yellow-bellied Sapsucker Continues in Tilden Park
richard s. cimino
My I ask what plumage the YBSA is in?
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Rich Cimino Larkspur On Apr 25, 2018, at 4:34 PM, 'Judi S.' judisierra@... [EBB_Sightings] <EBB_Sightings-noreply@...> wrote:
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Reminder
judisierra
Not sure what happened to this on the EBB Yahoo Groups About page but be sure to
Sign your sightings posts with first and last name and city you reside in Judi Sierra- Oakland And I broke a cardinal rule of filling in the subject line |
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judisierra
Not sure what happened to this on the EBB Yahoo Groups About page but be sure to
Sign your sightings posts with first and last name and city you reside in Judi Sierra- Oakland |
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Re: Yellow-bellied Sapsucker Continues in Tilden Park
judisierra
Interesting this popped up today. Note that it's dated Feb 26!
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Subject: [EBB_Sightings] Yellow-bellied Sapsucker Continues in Tilden Park To: "EBB_Sightings @Yahoo.com" <EBB_Sightings@...> Date: Monday, February 26, 2018, 9:15 PM Thanks to Judi Sierra and Pat Mahoney for perfect descriptions of where to locate the bird. This afternoon Dal and I got excellent views and photos of the bird beginning within minutes of our arrival at 1:30 and continuing until we eventually decided to take a walk. I was intrigued with its relationship to this very old non-native cotoneaster which was indeed riddled with sap wells suggesting it has been used by generations of sapsuckers as well as fruit eaters for the berries. 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please, I beg you, don't play recordings for Mitchell Canyon poorwills
Maureen Lahiff
...or anyone else in breeding season!
We all know it is the height of selfishness to stress out birds by playing recordings. Especially in breeding season. Especially in heavily-visited areas like Mitchell Canyon. We're not researchers doing science or careful censusing, we are, at best, lovers of birds and conservers of birds. Maureen Lahiff Oakland |
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