[EBB Sightings] Jewel Lake

Greetings Birding Friends:

Summer residents continue to arrive while some of the winter birds
remainding are singing what Alan Kaplan calls their "goodbye songs."

In the small oak at the entrance to the Nature Area where rarities have
been sighted in the past, we saw both the Yellow-rumped and a
Townsend's Warbler who was singing.  We were surrounded by singing
Wilson's Warblers newly arrived and in the distance the resident Purple
Finch warbled sweetly.

At the lake, six Buffleheads remain along with a female Ring-necked
Duck. The stream-delivered sediments are settling and the lake is
returning to its green summer color.  The headlong dash of spring is
now settling into summer maturity and most plants are fully leafed and
some like the coast elderberries are already flowering.  Also in bloom
along the Packrat Trail are a number of pink trillium.

By next Friday's regularly-scheduled walk to Jewel Lake the
Black-headed Grosbeaks should have arrived to add their contralto
voices to the growing chorus.

Most satisfying moment:  Hearing a California Quail calling.

Phila Rogers 


 
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