[EBB Sightings] Pine Siskins in Berkeley

Hi Everyone,

Reading the reports of backyard Pine Siskins over the past few days made
me desperately jealous. In the ten years we've lived south of campus in
Berkeley (between Shattuck and Telegraph, Dwight and Ashby), we have
never seen siskins in the yard. I decided that if this was possibly an
irruption year, our time may have come.

And indeed it did this afternoon, when three Pine Siskins plastered
themselves onto the thistle sock, sharing the seed with two American
Goldfinches and one Lesser Goldfinch.

Also showing up today were the season's first Townsend's Warbler and
first Yellow-rumped Warbler. A Fox Sparrow joined the gathering of
White-crowned and Golden-crowned Sparrows.

Good birding,

Judith Dunham