Hooded Oriole visited feijoa too
Sat, 19 Jun 1999 15:03:10 -0700 (PDT)
From: Peter Rauch
Today, 2 PM, bright, sunny, warm: a Hooded Oriole visited the Feijoa in my yard (Kensington, Ardmore Rd) briefly, along with some Bushtits; some robins, a mockingbird and a couple squirrels (eating the flower petals); a Bewick's Wren (preening, and being followed and "bothered" from branch to branch by one of the Bushtits). The oriole didn't hang around, flew to the next yard's Pittosporum and then disappeared. Seems like this tree is the local candy store....
Peter
Taking a few days off
Sat, 19 Jun 1999 22:02:14 -0700
From: Larry Tunstall
The EBbird list will be running on autopilot for most of this coming week while I take care of some family business. The e-mail list should operate normally, but the website (including the EBbird archive) will not be updated until Thursday or Friday.
Good birding, Larry
Larry Tunstall
El Cerrito CA
Hayward Regional Shoreline Arctic Tern
Nesting!
Sun, 20 Jun 1999 08:57:34 PDT
From: Steve Glover
Hello Everyone,
On Friday, June 18th, at Hayward Regional Shoreline in Alameda County, Bob Richmond saw the female Arctic Tern incubating 2 eggs! After seven years of chasing around Forster's Terns she has apparently finally found a willing suitor. I think that the closest breeding birds of this species are in the northern Yukon so this is a wonderfully confused bird, just as we've always known.
Steve Glover
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Arctic Terns: I get the point
Sun, 20 Jun 1999 16:15:47 PDT
From: Steve Glover
Hello again everyone,
You people are quick! I have already gotten at least 6 messages telling me that Arctic Terns have nested as close as Everett, Washington, since the early 70s. Apparently I am just about the only person who didn't know this. Thanks to all of you (but not to anyone else, starting right now!). :-)
Steve Glover
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Leona Heights June 20
Mon, 21 Jun 1999 14:07:09 -0700
From: Courtenay Peddle
Hello birders,
Sally Walters, Don Schmoldt and I birded the Leona Heights Regional Open Space trail for three hours late Sunday morning with the following results.
Highlights were decent views of a Cassin's Vireo, very young robins (with spotted breasts), a family of three noisy Northern Flickers being fed, a Swainson's Tthrush carrying food, and hearng the California Thrasher in the sage brush. We also saw a young Black Phoebe - with brown wings. We were disappointed to neither hear nor see the MacGillivray's Warbler.
Here's our trip list:
Turkey Vulture (Cathartes aura)
Sharp-shinned Hawk (Accipiter striatus)
Red-tailed Hawk (Buteo jamaicensis)
California Quail (Callipepla californica)
Rock Dove (Columba livia)
Band-tailed Pigeon (Columba fasciata)
Anna's Hummingbird (Calypte anna)
Allen's Hummingbird (Selasphorus sasin)
Nuttall's Woodpecker (Picoides nuttallii)
Northern Flicker (Colaptes auratus)
Pacific-slope Flycatcher (Empidonax difficilis)
Black Phoebe (Sayornis nigricans)
Steller's Jay (Cyanocitta stelleri)
Western Scrub-Jay (Aphelocoma californica)
American Crow (Corvus brachyrhynchos)
Hutton's Vireo (Vireo huttoni)
Cassin's Vireo (Vireo cassinii)
Warbling Vireo (Vireo gilvus)
Swainson's Thrush (Catharus ustulatus)
American Robin (Turdus migratorius)
California Thrasher (Toxostoma redivivum)
Common Starling (Sturnus vulgaris)
Bushtit (Psaltriparus minimus)
Wrentit (Chamaea fasciata)
Chestnut-backed Chickadee (Poecile rufescens)
House Sparrow (Passer domesticus)
American Goldfinch (Carduelis tristis)
Lesser Goldfinch (Carduelis psaltria)
Purple Finch (Carpodacus purpureus)
House Finch (Carpodacus mexicanus)
Orange-crowned Warbler (Vermivora celata)
Wilson's Warbler (Wilsonia pusilla)
Song Sparrow (Melospiza melodia)
Dark-eyed Junco (Junco hyemalis)
Spotted Towhee (Pipilo maculatus)
California Towhee (Pipilo crissalis)
Black-headed Grosbeak (Pheucticus melanocephalus)
Red-winged Blackbird (Agelaius phoeniceus)
Good birding,
Courtenay Peddle
Arctic Tern
Mon, 21 Jun 1999 18:36:14 PDT
From: Peter Dramer
The significance of the Arctic Tern nesting at Hayward Shoreline is that it is likely to be the first-ever recorded occurrence of Arctic Tern X Forster's Tern. At this point, there is little for birdwatchers to see as the tern is perhaps only margianlly visible from the trail and on two eggs. If there is a successful hatching I will send a note.
Peter Dramer -
Hayward Shoreline