Fwd: [SBB] Weekend Birds
Wed, 31 Mar 1999 04:15:01 -0800
From: Mike Feighner
East Bay Birders:
Here is a post from Rich Cimino with birds he observed in both Alameda and Santa Clara Counties.
Mike Feighner, Livermore, CA
[SBB] Weekend Birds
Tue, 30 Mar 1999 19:45:41 -0800
From: Rich CiminoHi everyone I am Rich Cimino. Mike Feighner has been after me to post bird observations. So here I go, I'll be brief.
Saturday, Paterson Road. Road Marker 6.21. Stand by the wooden fence looking west on top of the largest willow tree, female Western Tanger and 2 brightly crowned Orange-crowned Warblers. Going east to the bottom of the pass at the large cottonwoods, 3 Violet-green Swallows.
Sunday Mines Road. Road Marker 6.81. Two Roadrunners, look on the fence posts up slope. Do a 180 degree turn and scan the tops of the Oak trees, we found 3 Phainopepla.
Road Marker 13.83 at creekside, a Canyon Wren. This bird has the whitest bib - it is so white it enhances the rust and rufous-brown. This is a striking Wren. I have seen dozens of Canyon Wrens in New Mexico outside of Taos along the Rio Grande River Canyon, and "our bird" puts the New Mexican Canyon Wrens to shame for beauty. This bird is worth the drive up to see it!
At the Fire Station near the junction we had 6 Lawrence's Goldfinches.
Drive 1.2 mile south on San Antonio Rd. (cross a small creek), look in the large to the east - we had two Lewis' Woodpeckers. These bird use a three-Oak-tree roost area.
Back to the junction, quarter mile east at the ponds, a pair of Ring-billed Ducks.
Total species count for the trip 70.
Re: Yard List
Wed, 31 Mar 1999 09:52:04 -0800
From: Nancy Harrington
Hello EBB -
I moved to the Mt. Diablo area from Kansas in December, 1998. I've been keeping track of birds seen in CA, as well as yard birds, although I don't record the dates or locations unless they are life birds.
My total yard list is 42. I note birds I see in or from my yard including if they are flying overhead or viewable on the hill behind my house. I have several feeding stations - offering a mix for ground feeders, hummingbird feeders, safflower, thistle, and sunflower.
Since someone mentioned copulating birds in another post, I'll add to that list as I've observed that behavior in the California Quail and Red-shouldered Hawks in the last two weeks.
I haven't had the opportunity to update my records on the computer yet, but will soon.
Nancy Harrington
Danville
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Re: [SBB] Weekend Birds
Wed, 31 Mar 1999 15:42:55 -0800
From: Don Lewis
Having been with Rich Cimino on Sunday, I might add that the 70 species for the day included a quick side trip to the Clifton Court Forebay area. The highlight there was six Burrowing Owls sitting, in pairs, close to the road, in the field northeast of the junction of highway J-4 (Byron Highway) and Clifton Road, on the way in to the Forebay.
Don Lewis
Lafayette, CA
Re: Yard bird lists
Wed, 31 Mar 1999 16:09:05 PST
From: Helen Green
My bird list here in Berkeley is 104 since 1972. This is everything seen or heard from the yard. Our yard is in north Berkeley just about where the flats meet the hills.
Helen Green
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Re: Yard bird lists
Wed, 31 Mar 1999 19:33:31 PST
From: Denise Wight
Hi, E.B. Birders,
I live on the second floor of an apartment complex overlooking a parking lot and a housing development across from Highway 4 in Martinez. When I first moved to this apartment in 1992, I thought I would have to give up yard listing, but I have had some pretty nifty species visit me. For three years now a male Costa's Hummingbird stops by for most of April (I'm hoping he makes it four), and a Black-chinned Hummingbird has been to my feeder. I have an alder tree outside my window which has attracked Hammond's Flycatchers, (three sightings), MacGillivray's and other migrant warblers, vireos, etc. Last year, a Nashville Warbler was singing from the roof. There was a very old Valley Oak I could see just beyond the parking lot that had an overwintering Black-throated Gray Warbler. Fly-by and overhead sightings have included a Ferruginous Hawk, a Caspian Tern, flocks of American White Pelican and Marble Godwits. My "apartment" list is 93 species. Isn't it great to live in the East Bay!
Denise Wight
Martinez, CA
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Eastshore State Park, & yard lists
Wed, 31 Mar 1999 20:53:27 -0800
From: Larry Tunstall
Lillian Fujii passes along word received from the Berkeley Marina that East Bay Regional Park District will be in charge of planning the future Eastshore State Park, which will extend along the bay shore from the Bay Bridge north to Richmond. If you have information about wildlife or other concerns that should be taken into account in park planning, the person you need to address is Martin Vitz, Advance Planning Manager, EBRPD, PO Box 5381, Oakland CA 94605-0381.
On another topic, I am working on adding yard lists to the EBBC website. It will probably take me another few days to get them on-line. If you haven't sent me your detailed list, please do.
Thanks, your "list mom" Larry
Larry Tunstall
El Cerrito CA
Steller's Jays
Date: Wed, 31 Mar 1999 21:51:51 PST
From: Steve Glover
Hello everyone,
I'm trying to get as many East Bay Steller's Jays records as possible from last fall's/winter invasion. To my knowledge this is the only one of these invasions to have occurred in the East Bay since records began being kept. I am primarily interested in birds that appeared in areas where they have either never been recorded or have only been recorded on very rare occasions. Please send directly to me (and not the group) where you live (or where you observed the birds if away from your yard), the date they were first noted, the last date seen (if they have left yet) and how many birds were present. Many seem hopeful that they will stick around and nest but this seems highly unlikely, particularly since the habitat in many locations seems inadequate. Joe Morlan and others have stated that they believe the birds that invaded here were likely from populations to the north, meaning it likely that they will again return to northern breeding areas, and this seems likely. I'm not sure how we will ever know where these birds came from but I would like to compile the most detailed account possible.
Thank you in advance,
Steve Glover