[EBB Sightings] the Allen's are back!

I spotted a male Allen's along the Berkeley "meadow"
trail in ESSP this afternoon--and wondered how he and
his kin survive in this frigid weather.
I was there on what ended up being a proverbial "snipe
hunt." Are you sure they're really out there? :-)
Among others seen:
  sparrows--golden and white crowned and ?
  redtail being harassed by a kestrel
  possible harrier, though it didn't seem a total
match
  Canada geese
  crows & maybe ravens 
 In the ponds:
   mallards
   American wigeons
   green-winged teal
   gadwall
   buffleheads
   coots.
Is it possible there were a few laughing gulls where
the stream empties behind the Seabreeze? I looked and
looked in Sibley and laughing seemed one of the best
possibilities, but I'm reluctant to claim it. I figure
someone will tell me they're something much more
common.
Stay warm out there!
Alan Howe
North Oakland


--- Linda Fishman Ott 
wrote:

> Got our first sighting of the return of a male
> Selasphorus to our 
> hummingbird feeder this morning. He was getting in
> short nips before the 
> resident male Anna's chased him away. It's going to
> be another 
> entertaining Spring watching them vie for top
> honors. At our house, 
> sharing a feeder is never considered acceptable
> behavior.
> 
> When we were near Flaming Gorge in the mountains
> above Vernal, Utah this 
> past summer, we watched four different species share
> the feeders outside 
> the restaurant windows at the lodge where we stayed.
> Most of the eight 
> stations at each feeder was occupied at any one
> time. More hungry beaks 
> lined up behind the feeding hummers, hovering and
> displaying. And more 
> glittering bodies awaited their chance in the bushes
> and trees nearby.
> 
> Linda Ott
> Martinez
> 
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