[EBB Sightings] Early Arrivals

Yesterday, March 12, 2005, at about 7 a.m., George Bing and I
saw a male Bullock's Oriole at milepost 9.68 on Corral Hollow
road, in Alameda Co.  This is my earliest ever sighting of this bird.

Also yesterday, at about 7:45 a.m., we saw a Western Kingbird
at the entrance of the Tracy Golf Course on Chrisman Road, near
the Hwy 580/Hwy 132 interchange in San Joaquin Co.  This was
also my earliest ever sighting of this bird.  The Tracy Golf Course
is a good place to find Cassin's Kingbird.  We have seen it there
in spring and summer most years, and saw it there in February
2004.

We saw and heard a Canyon Wren at milepost 7.4 in Del Puerto
Canyon in Stanislaus Co., and several Lewis Woodpeckers in
San Antonio Valley, between 0.25 and 2.5 miles south of San
Antonio Junction, Santa Clara Co.

Art Edwards