[EBB Sightings] Status of Canyon Wren in/around Tilden RP

Birders:

As a belated follow-up to my earlier attempt to respond to Phila 
Rogers's question of a few weeks ago . . .

  I finally found my stash of checklists, "List of the Birds of the 
Berkeley Hills," issued by the Museum of Vertebrate Zoology, UC 
Berkeley, 1984.  The List says, "The area includes the campus of the 
University of California in Berkeley, the adjoining western slopes of 
the Berkeley Hills and Wildcat Canyon in Tilden Regional Park."  So it 
wasn't meant to extend as far east as Inspiration Point, the location 
that spurred Phil's question about the status Canyon Wren.  Still . . . 
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MVZ's checklist does not list Canyon Wren at all, even in its "Partial 
List of Occasional Visitants."  As mentioned, I had one at my house 
above Lake Anza (apparently within the limits of the checklist) on Sept 
8, 1997.

Hunting around for the MVZ checklists had the additional benefit of 
reminding me of two charming, older articles by Amelia Sanborn Allen, 
in which she describes the birds encountered at her home in lower 
Strawberry Canyon.  What a bygone time . . . California Thrashers 
visiting her platform feeder.  Check them out:

http://elibrary.unm.edu/sora/Condor/issues/v017n02/index.php

http://elibrary.unm.edu/sora/Condor/issues/v045n04/index.php

Dave Quady
Berkeley, California
davequady at att.net