[EBB Sightings] RE: Sightings digest, Vol 1 #416 - 3 msgs

Too bad Round Valley was closed. Last Thursday August 25 from 10 AM to 1
PM I hiked into Round Valley itself, the floor of which was burned. Area
to the south of Miwok Trail appeared to me the result of a (successful)
controlled burn; the area to the north seemed, if it was started as a
controlled burn, to have gotten way: oaks way up hill were blackened.
On the round trip I spotted golden eagles (1 juvenile & 1 adult),
red-tailed, turkey vultures, kestrels, mourning doves, black phoebe,
blue-gray gnatcatchers (2), bushtits, starlings, acorn woodpeckers,
Downey woodpecker, crows, scrub jays, Anna's hummer, white-breasted
nuthatch, Bewick's wren, mockingbird, oak titmouse. A coyote retreating
from the edge of the burned field. An adult rattler within 10 feet of an
Audubon's rabbit: see snake coil, hear snake rattle, watch man walking
quickly backwards....

Peter Boffey
Pacific Coast Seed, Inc.
Tel. 925-373-4417 ext. 1603
Fax  925 373 6855
peterb at pcseed.com


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Today's Topics:

   1. Fwd: East Shore State Park - Phalaropes (Ann McGregor)
   2. Godwits, kestrel at MLK Shoreline (Tom Condit)
   3. Limeridge Open Space (CPeter1071 at aol.com)

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Message: 1
Date: Sun, 28 Aug 2005 10:35:05 -0700
From: Ann McGregor 
To: sightings 
Subject: [EBB Sightings] Fwd: East Shore State Park - Phalaropes


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> From: "Robert Lewis" 
> Date: Sun Aug 28, 2005  8:54:51 AM US/Pacific
> To: 
> Subject: East Shore State Park - Phalaropes
> If you=92re interested in participating in a year-long census of
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> birds of the new state park (starting in October), contact Tara at=20
> ggas at goldengateaudubon.com.=A0 Golden Gate Audubon will be operating =
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> to provide some input on key habitat areas for birds within the new=20
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> Yesterday in the park, along the Bay Trail at 51st in Richmond,
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> were 10 Red-necked Phalaropes in the shallow pond to the east of
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> Bob Lewis
> Berkeley, CA
> RLewis0727 at aol.com
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the Bay Trail at 51st in Richmond, there were 10 Red-necked Phalaropes
in the shallow pond to the east of the trail.=A0 Two Black
Oystercatchers were further north in the rocky area west of the trail,
and an Osprey flew directly over us.=A0 




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Message: 2
Date: Sun, 28 Aug 2005 15:35:31 -0700
To: sightings at diabloaudubon.com
From: Tom Condit 
Subject: [EBB Sightings] Godwits, kestrel at MLK Shoreline

Saturday, 27 August 2005, Marsha Feinland and I saw two Marbled Godwits
in 
breeding plumage at Martin Luther King Jr Shoreline in Oakland. This
seems 
early for this species. They were in with a flock of 30+ Willets along
the 
parh between the bridge from Arrowhead Marsh and Damon Slough.

Also, a female Kestrel flew over us at Arrowhead. This species was once
an 
everyday sight along the Bay shore and roads in this area, but neither
of 
us can remember the last time we saw one.

Tom Condit


Tom Condit
tomcondit at igc.org



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Message: 3
From: CPeter1071 at aol.com
Date: Sun, 28 Aug 2005 20:51:50 EDT
To: sightings at diabloaudubon.com
Subject: [EBB Sightings] Limeridge Open Space


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Following up on Sharyn G's info on Limeridge in Concord, I have visited

twice. Today I found several KITES, two RED-TAILED HAWKS, a male KESTREL
and a  
juvie COOPER'S HAWK. The kestrel greeted me as I got out of my car in
the  
parking lot on Via Montanas St. The kites like to hang out in the oaks
and other  
trees off of Via Montanas (about half a mile due south of the small
parking  
lot). This is the best place I have seen for kites. There were at least
5 the  
previous visit. I flushed the coop while it was eating something under a
tree.  
It flew to another tree and then came back to resume dining. Near the
same 
tree  I also flushed several PHEASANTS. The redtails were about 100
yards uphill 
and  north of the parking lot in a tall tree.On my previous visit, I saw
a 
redtail  grab a mouse and take it up to an oak tree for the feast. 
 
I then visited Round Valley Park but found it closed due to fire danger.

Does anyone else find that people are causing lots of fires due to
excessive  
binocular usage or clicking camera shutter buttons? I was disappointed
so  headed 
to nearby Mount Diablo State Park, which was wide open. 
 
Clark Peterson
San Rafael

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