[EBB Sightings] Slate-colored junco variant

Hi, all.
  This comes a few days late, but I wasn't sure how
noteworthy my sighting was. 
  Late Friday afternoon I spotted at least one
dark-eyed junco slate-colored variant (with white wing
bars) behind the Garden Center in Lakeside Park in
Oakland. It was in the same area some of us saw the
yellow-breasted chat early this summer--on the ground
and in the trees right by the fenced parking area
right behind the building--and atop the restroom
building nearby.
  Across the drive from the restrooms a couple of
Anna's humminbirds were busy foraging in the trees.
  At the lake I spotted the usual double-crested
cormorants, mallards, coots, pied-billed grebes,
black-crowned night herons, snowy egrets, bushtits, a
black-ringed (I think) gull or two, a juvenile gull
I'm still trying to identify, a few brown pelicans and
2 belted kingfishers loudly chasing each other back
and forth across the islands. And, of course the
Canada geese were everywhere.
Take care,
Alan Howe
North Oakland


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