[EBB Sightings] Hooded Orioles at UC Botanical Garden, 27 May

27 May 2005

The pair of Hooded Orioles were foraging actively in the Mediterranean and 
Australia-N.Z. sections of the UC Botanical Garden in Berkeley.

Other birds seen:
Red-tailed Hawk
Selasphorus Hummingbirds
Anna's Hummingbird
Red-shafted Flicker
Steller's Jays
Western Scrub Jays
American Crow
(Common Raven heard)
Chestnut-backed Chickadees
Bushtits
American Robins
Spotted Towhees (many, singing vigorously)
California Towhees
Song Sparrows
Dark-eyed Juncos
Purple Finch
House Finch
Goldfinch sp.

A Garden employee said that a Grosbeak (I assume black-headed) has been 
singing along the east edge of the California section several days this week.

Coming up through the UC Berkeley campus we saw a Black Phoebe in juvenal 
plumage.



Tom Condit
tomcondit at igc.org