Yellow-headed Mockingbird
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Sun, 13 Jun 1999 11:14:58 -0700 (PDT)
From: Peter Rauch
If you see a yellow-headed mockingbird flitting around your Kensington yard, don't call the twitchers.
I have a feijoa tree (also known as pineapple guava) in flower. This young mocker is feeding on the flowers, and they are dousing the bird with a liberal dusting of pollen. The top, sides, and chin of the head, and upper breast have a solid yellow overcoat. Quite a start for a moment, before I realized what was happening!
Peter
Crab Cove, 11 June 99
Sun, 13 Jun 1999 14:45:46 -0700 (PDT)
From: Tom Condit
Friday, 11 June 1999
Crab Cove, Alameda
This is another no-binoculars, limited-observation trip, this time with 16 kindergartners and first graders going for a nature program on the last day of school. The whole park area was filled with multitudes of kids running, screaming, jumping, but a few birds poked their heads out anyway.
Highlight: a Downy Woodpecker feeding a fledgling in a tree next to the Nature Center.
Four Mallard ducklings at the little marsh.
Many, many Barn Swallows swooping low along the ground catching insects.
Northern Mockingbirds
Brewer's Blackbirds
European Starlings
Something that was probably a Sharp-shinned Hawk going over at high speed
American Robins
American Coots
Western Gulls
gull sp.
House Sparrows
House Finches
Mourning Doves
Rock Doves
Tom Condit
Oldsquaw in Alameda County
Sun, 13 Jun 1999 18:05:45 PDT
From: Tom Ryan
On Sunday, 13 June, I observed a male Oldsquaw in worn alternate plumage on a salt pond on private property in Alameda County. Its a bit of an unusual sighting so I thought I'd pass it along. Also on the ponds were female Red-necked Phalarope in both alternate and basic plumage.
Tom Ryan
Sunol Regional Wilderness on 14 Apr 1999
Mon, 14 Jun 1999 21:11:27 -0700
From: Larry Tunstall
This is another in an ongoing series of Golden Gate Audubon Society fieldtrip reports being saved "for the record" in the EBbird archives.
Date: 14 April 1999
Place: Sunol Regional Wilderness, Alameda County
Leaders: Anna Wilcox & Jean-Marie Spoelman
Habitats: oak forest, conifer forest, deciduous forest
12 participants. Beautiful sunny day.Turkey Vulture (Cathartes aura) - 12
Red-shouldered Hawk (Buteo lineatus) - heard only
Red-tailed Hawk (Buteo jamaicensis) - 1
American Kestrel (Falco sparverius) - 1
California Quail (Callipepla californica) - 2 plus others heard
Anna's Hummingbird (Calypte anna) - 2
Allen's Hummingbird (Selasphorus sasin) - 2
Acorn Woodpecker (Melanerpes formicivorus) - 5 plus others heard
Nuttall's Woodpecker (Picoides nuttallii) - 2 plus others heard
Northern Flicker (Colaptes auratus) - heard only
Black Phoebe (Sayornis nigricans) - 4
Warbling Vireo (Vireo gilvus) - heard only
Steller's Jay (Cyanocitta stelleri) - heard only
Western Scrub-Jay (Aphelocoma californica) - 3
Yellow-billed Magpie (Pica nuttalli) - 4 plus others heard
American Crow (Corvus brachyrhynchos) - 6
Northern Rough-winged Swallow (Stelgidopteryx serripennis) - 1
Chestnut-backed Chickadee (Poecile rufescens) - 10
Oak Titmouse (Baeolophus inornatus) - 6 plus others heard
Bushtit (Psaltriparus minimus) - 6
White-breasted Nuthatch (Sitta carolinensis) - 2 plus others heard
Bewick's Wren (Thryomanes bewickii) - 2 plus others heard
House Wren (Troglodytes aedon) - 8 plus others heard, nest seen
Ruby-crowned Kinglet (Regulus calendula) - 3
Western Bluebird (Sialia mexicana) - 3
Orange-crowned Warbler (Vermivora celata) - heard only
Yellow Warbler (Dendroica petechia) - 12
Spotted Towhee (Pipilo maculatus) - 3 plus others heard
Rufous-crowned Sparrow (Aimophila ruficeps) - 1
Song Sparrow (Melospiza melodia) - 1 plus others heard
Golden-crowned Sparrow (Zonotrichia atricapilla) - 6
Bullock's Oriole (Icterus bullockii) - 2 plus others heard
Reported to GGAS by the leaders, posted to EBbird by Larry Tunstall.