[EBB Sightings] FW: TOWNSEND'S SOLITAIRE - Sunol, Alameda Co.

FYI


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Mike Feighner, Livermore, CA, Alameda County

-----Original Message-----
From: On Behalf Of Kathryn Parker
Sent: Monday, January 29, 2007 7:48 PM
Subject: TOWNSEND'S SOLITAIRE - Sunol, Alameda Co.

This morning at 7:15 and again at 8:30 I saw a TOWNSEND'S SOLITAIRE between
mileposts 0.4 and 0.5 on Geary Rd. - this is the road into the Sunol
Regional Park.  It was perched on a barbed wire fence next to the road and
at 8:30, it flew down to drink from a puddle in the road in front of my car
giving me stunning views of its salmon wing patches.

The bird is about the size of a mockingbird, and as I was driving up the
road, this is what I thought it was. The bird is a soft gray, with a small
black beak.  Its eye is large and dark with a complete white eye-ring that
is thicker behind the eye. When perched, the wings have a faint wingbar and
below it a small salmon colored rectangular patch.  The tail is long and
slender with white outer tail feathers.  When the bird flew down to the
road, large salmon wing patches were visible.

The RED-NAPED SAPSUCKER was in the large oak tree with the picnic table
under it.  Go across the footbridge, turn right, continue straight until the
oak is on your right.

Kathy Parker
Los Gatos, Santa Clara County