[EBB Sightings] WHITE-THROATED SPARROW at Shinn Park, Fremont, ALA Co.

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Greetings EBBirders,
 
Yesterday, while doing my Tuesday Butterfly & Hummingbird Garden  maintenance 
(Bette Wentzel Memorial Garden at Shinn Historic Park and Arboretum  - 1269 
Peralta Blvd., Fremont  94536) a tan-crowned WHITE-THROATED  SPARROW was found 
feeding along the pathway by the huge Moreton  (Queensland) Fig tree.  It was 
loosely associating with the Golden-crowned  Sparrows. From its pale white 
throat I guessed it to be a first hatch-year bird.  Of the 29 species in and 
around the 4.5 acre Park others of interest were:  Red-tailed Hawk (chased close, 
over the redwood grove by 7-8 Am. Crows);  Glaucous-winged Gull; Anna's 
Hummingbird (3; including a young female learning  how to gather nectar from the 
inverted-globe-like flowers of the Strawberry  Trees); Northern Flicker (3; 
including one "Red- x Yellow-shafted"  intergrade); Steller's Jay (2; first ever of 
84 spp. since 1999); Ruby-crowned  Kinglet (2; one giving full song); Hermit 
Thrush (1; giving an  unusual, pure note, whistle); Cedar Waxwing (7; FOS, 
first of season);  Townsend's Warbler (male; female, that bathed as did several 
other  spp. in the dripping birdbath - thanks to Dr. Howard Cogswell);  Spotted 
Towhee (pair; first ever in Garden); American Goldfinch (also  bathed).  
Three sp. of Butterflies: Cabbage White, Monarch and West Coast  Lady.
 
Happy Birding and Lepidoptering,
Phil Gordon
Hayward, ALA Co.
 
P.S. Garden volunteers are welcome, most Tuesdays. PEG. 
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Kinglet (2; one giving full song); Hermit Thrush (1; giving an=20
unusual, pure note, whistle); Cedar Waxwing (7; FOS, first of season);=20
Townsend's Warbler (male; female, that bathed as did several other=20
spp. in the dripping birdbath - thanks to Dr. Howard Cogswell);=20
Spotted Towhee (pair; first ever in Garden); American Goldfinch (also=20
bathed).  Three sp. of Butterflies: Cabbage White, Monarch and West Coa=
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Lady.
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