[EBB Sightings] Blue Grosbeak

He's Back!

Sunday morning (4/17) I spotted a male BLUE GROSBEAK
at milepost 6.21 on Patterson Pass Rd, Livermore.
My thanks to Rich Cimino and others for their
directions to this birdy location.  Based on their
messages last year, this seemed the day to go birding.
 I arrived at 7:25am, but, with no sunlight yet, was
soon driven back to my car to warm up.   The wind was
blowing!  By 7:50 the sun had peeked out, and the
birds were waking.  I spotted him on a tree directly
opposite the pull-out.  He stayed put several minutes
and then flew down stream.   Other birds at milepost
6.21: 
LARK SPARROW (another lifer!!) 
TRI-COLORED BLACKBIRD 
CALIFORNIA TOWHEE 
WHITE-CROWNED SPARROW 
LESSER GOLDFINCH 
ANNA'S HUMMINGBIRD 
RED-TAIL HAWK 
MOURNING DOVE 
AUDUBON'S WARBLER 
WESTERN KINGBIRD 
WESTERN MEADOWLARK

Other sightings of note:
Hundreds of WHITE-THROATED SWIFTS are nesting at Owl
Rocks on the south side of Corral Hollow Rd, just east
of Livermore Lab's site 300.  (Take Tesla Rd east from
Livermore, or Corral Hollow Rd west from I580).

CEDAR WAXWINGS are in the Eucalyptus trees at Lawrence
Livermore Lab this morning.

Good birding,
Bill Clark
Livermore, CA

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