[EBB Sightings] Pleasanton Residents

Yesterday Friday August 27 at 1:30PM on 1282 Ridgewood Rd. a Juvenile
Cooper's Hawk Flew into the tree in front of the home.
Today SATURDAY Aug.28 at 12:15 PM in the Albertson Parking on Hopyard
and Las Postias a Adult Male Coopers Hawk flew out of the small tree
behind the bus stop and circled above the store until it had some breeze
and then took off.
Several times this pass week typically around 8AM on HY 680 in and
around the Niles Canyon exit there has been a Juvenile Golden Eagle.
Today Saturday this AM I was in my back yard doing some clean up when I
notice a Barn Owl feather on the lawn.
My neighbor has a family ( not wanted ) of Norwegians Rats living in and
around that side of the yard, so maybe we are less one rat???
Enjoy the hot weather with inside birding 
Rich Cimino

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Sent: Thursday, August 26, 2004 5:24 PM
To: sightings at diabloaudubon.com
Subject: [EBB Sightings] Marina migrants


There were some unusual species at the Berkeley Marina today.  In
various 
trees around the harbor were Downy and Nuttall's Woodpeckers, chickadees
and a 
Red-breasted Nuthatch.  In the crescent of deciduous trees north of the
harbor 
and the auto turnaround were two Willow Flycatchers and three Warbling
Vireos 
with most of the above birds, while a Lark Sparrow was with the finch
flock 
just to the east.  The day's highlight came as we headed south past the
Seabreeze 
Market, when a Bank Swallow flew over heading north; we've never seen
this 
species before during summer camp time.  Later a juvie N Harrier and
three 
Sanderlings briefly visited the cove south of the huge mounds of dirt
near the 
pedestrian bridge over I-80, the Sanderlings were an EB first for us .

On Tuesday at Albany, as well as today at Berkeley, we saw single
Pelagic 
Cormorants fly by.  On Monday, we found a Cassin's Vireo associating
with a 
Hutton's northeast of the Nature Center in Tilden Park, where we also
saw our first 
Tilden Wild Turkeys, a female with seven large chicks wandering quite
near 
the Little Farm.

Most years we see a Townsend's Warbler or two during the last week of
August, 
usually near Vollmer Peak in Tilden; on five Tilden visits this and last

week, we've seen multiple Townsend's every day at every site we've
visited in the 
hills and the valleys.

It's really a shame that school has to start just as migration is
beginning 
to get exciting.

Brian Fitch & crew 
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