[EBB Sightings] Palm Warbler at Lake Merritt

There was a Palm Warbler in Fairyland at Lake Merritt yesterday, and (per 
John Luther on the Bird Box) again today.  Directions are: enter Lake 
Merritt Park at the Fairyland car entrance, near Harrison and Grand 
Ave.  Drive (or walk)  past the kiosk, and continue a few hundred feet to 
the Garden Center building on your left.  Walk down the wide, straight 
asphalt path across the street from the Garden Center, down to a tall, 
columned formal "gazebo" (I'm sure there's a more correct word, but you 
can't miss it).  From that point look past a large oak, through the nearest 
section of chain-link fence into Fairyland.  There's an unkempt grassy 
slope, where the warbler fed on the ground, sometimes flying up to the 
fence, sometimes in the company of crowned sparrows.   I took a couple of 
lo-quality snapshots yesterday, visible at 
http://services.housing.berkeley.edu/ITProject/gg/PaWa_Merritt.html 
.  Hoping that s/he sticks around until Sunday and the Oakland CBC.

George Griffeth
Kensington