[EBB Sightings] White-Crowned Sparrows - earlyish

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To: "Ken & JoAnna Dixon" ; "Laura Gee" 
Cc: ; "Tom Condit" 
Sent: Sunday, September 26, 2004 11:37 AM
Subject: Re: [EBB Sightings] White-Crowned Sparrows - earlyish


> I live in NE Lafayette, off Taylor near Withers.
> White crown showed up on 9-25 and gold crown 9-26.
> Their backyard behavior is same as described by
> Linda.  They spend the winter, hanging on until June.

That's interesting.  Around where I live in south Berkeley they are gone by
the end of April.

Where I walk my dog at Pt. Isabel Regional Shoreline there are a very few
White-crowneds through the summer, which I assume are the resident coastal
race.  Around September 20 the numbers of White-crowneds began to grow as
the fall migrants arrived.

Doug Greenberg