[EBB Sightings] Lake Merritt Franklin's Chat

  Yesterday, after watching the Franklin's gull for a
while (around 4:00 PM) I followed another birder
circling the gardens. He and another fellow saw the
chat just before I got around to the northwest side of
the Garden Center, but the shy little guy wouldn't
show himself for me, though he did sing nicely.
  So I went back this evening and just as I was about
to give up around 6:00, I managed a short but good
look through oak brances at his head and breast. Quite
a handsome fellow! At that point he was in the top of
an oak just inside the fencing for the parking area
behind the Garden Center (to the right of the gate and
next to the building), though I'd also heard him
briefly out toward the front of the building. 
  Also spotted was a Wilsons warbler we'd seen
yesterday, plenty of robins, including one working on
a nest I could easily reach in a tree around toward
the front of the building. Just before seeing the
chat, the flock of waxwings flew into the redwoods
over by the front of the lawn bowling building.
  Have a good week, all.
Alan Howe
North Oakland
--- Dennis Braddy  wrote:
> Birders,
> 
> We spotted the FRANKLIN'S GULL sitting on one of the
> floating 
> cylindrical booms as soon as we arrived at Lake
> Merritt this morning at 
> 9:10. At 10:45 we had the TUFTED DUCK in with the
> scaups. In between we 
> birded in and around the Garden Center and had
> WILSON'S WARBLER, 
> ORANGE-CROWNED WARBLER, WARBLING VIREO, and
> PACIFIC-SLOPE FLYCATCHER, 
> but unfortunately no chat.
> 
> Dennis and Patricia Braddy
> San Ramon
> 
> On Apr 30, 2005, at 11:34 AM, Bruce Mast wrote:
> 
> > The Franklin's Gull remains at Lake Merritt this
> morning, Saturday, 
> > April
> > 30. I left it around 10:30 preening in the water
> just off the path 
> > between
> > the duck feeding area and the Embarcadero.
> >
> > I also found a Yellow-breasted Chat singing in the
> Oak and Strawberry 
> > Trees
> > next to the Garden Center. I first spotted it
> around 9 am and it was 
> > still
> > there when I checked back around 10. By 10:30 it
> had either gone 
> > silent or
> > moved on. The trees are on the east side, between
> the Garden Center 
> > and the
> > Lawn Bowl Club. They are right next to the
> building, adjacent to the 
> > little
> > driveway that goes behind the Garden Center to an
> employee parking lot.
> >
> > The female Tufted Duck is still cruising around
> the duck feeding area 
> > with
> > the remaining scaups.
> >
> 
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