[EBB Sightings] Lake Merritt Franklin's Chat

In case anyone's about to scold me, no, I didn't even
get near the robin's nest, let alone touch it. "I
could easily reach" it, but wouldn't. I'll have to
watch how I put things...
Cheers,
Alan
--- Alan Howe  wrote:

>   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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