[EBB Sightings] Eastern Alameda Co

Rich Cimino and I did Patterson Pass Road from Livermore to Tracy, and then onto Mountain House Road, Kelso, and Bruns in San Joaquin/Alameda County today.  The highlights were:

41 Long-billed Curlews on a hillside off of Via Nicola Road, at PP Road and South 580, near Murco Olives
21 LB Curlews on the hillside east of Mountain House Road at mm 1.38
Rock Wrens on the east side of PP Road at mile maker  6.97, along with a Great Horned Owl that flushed up in the cottonwoods in the creek at the same place. 
 Burrowing Owl on the western hill at mm 5.47  PP Road
Many Say's Phoebes along the way
25 Red-Tails Hawks, including a dark morph on Bruns Road at the Byron-Bethany Irrigation District building
1 Golden Eagle soaring with a RT
Ferrugenous Hawk on Kelso Road
Swainson's Hawk on Mountain House Road

The rest of the list:

Pied-billed Grebe
DC Cormorants
Great Egret
Turkey Vulture
Northern Harriers
WT Kites
American Kestrels
California Quail
Killdeeer
Gull sp
Rock Doves
Mourning Doves
Northern Flickers
Black Phoebes
Logger Headed Shrikes
Hutton's Vireo
American Crows
Common Ravens
RC Kinglets
Lark Sparrows
Savannah Sparrows
Dark-eyed Junco
WC Sparrows
GC Sparrows
House Sparrows
Western Meadowlarks
Tricolored Blackbird
Brewer's Blackbird

The Curlews were the best birds of the day, foraging with Crows, Meadowlarks, and Ground Squirrels!

Patricia Bacchetti