Bluebird list
Fri, 1 Oct 1999 16:06:55 -0700 (PDT)
From: Tom Condit
There's a new internet discussion list devoted to bluebirds. To subscribe, send a message to
listproc@cornell.edu
with nothing in the subject line, and with the message
subscribe bluebird-l yourname
If that doesn't work, try it in all caps - the listserver may be case sensitive, and the original message I got had it in all caps.
Tom Condit
Waterfowl in Chicago at the lake
Fri, 1 Oct 1999 20:58:48 -0700
From: Judy
I'm leaving for a Chicago trip on Tuesday. What would you expect me to see in waterfowl at Lake Michigan that's not seen here?
Judy
Grasshopper Sparrow at Coyote Hills
Sat, 2 Oct 1999 15:34:33 PDT
From: Bob Lewis
Rusty Scalf and I led an Albany Adult School field trip to Coyote Hills Regional Park in Fremont this morning. Notable was a Grasshopper Sparrow in the burned hillside area beyond the last parking lot, on the left side of the road. Present in the same area were numerous Lincoln's Sparrows, as well as Fox Sparrow, Song Sparrow, White-crowned Sparrow, and Golden-crowned Sparrow. We were drawn to the bird because of its unique overall pale buffy appearance. We noted the whitish central crown stripe, buffy lore area, lack of whiskers, unstreaked white breast with some buff coloration, and short tail. The bird perched on a burned baccharus for a few minutes.
Bob Lewis
Berkeley
Miller/Knox Regional Park & Joaquin Miller
Park
Sat, 02 Oct 1999 21:58:25 -0700
From: Mike Feighner
East-Bay-Birders:
Today after birding in both San Francisco for the Philadelphia Vireo and at Point Reyes Lighthouse where a nice Connecticut Warbler made a nice show, I stopped off at Miller/Knox Regional Park in Richmond, Contra Costa County. I parked in the first lot and hiked up the south hill. This was much too late in the day for any hawk migrations, but I did find one Peregrine Falcon and one Turkey Vulture at the summit.
In Alameda County I stopped off in Oakland's Joaquin Miller Park. I parked in a parking lot along Skyline Boulevard and ended up hiking across the road and hiked up the hill behind the Chabot Observatory and Science Center. Here there were numerous visible Pygmy Nuthatches, a couple of heard-only Red-breasted Nuthatches, 1 Townsend's Warbler, lots of American Robins, and a couple of heard-only Steller's Jays.
Mike Feighner, Livermore, CA