[EBB Sightings] Yellow Billed Magpies nesting!

Yesterday March 14 at 10am Bethel Island
A pair of Yellow Billed Magpies nesting in a tree in the 2100 block of 
Taylor Road on Bethel Island! There was also a Red Tailed Hawk preening in 
the sun, and a Ladderbacked Woodpecker on a small tree right next to the 
road. Other birds sighted in the hour were; 1 Northern Red-shafted Flicker, 
dozens of Brewers and Red Winged Blackbirds, dozens of Barn Swallows, Cliff 
Swallows. 3 pair Black Phoebes, 4 Scrub Jays and 6 Northern Mocking birds. 1 
Male Ring-necked Pheasant. A pair of vocal Canadian Geese and a pair of 
Western Meadowlarks. The water birds; 5 Coots, 12 Common Moorhens, 3 Great 
Blue Herons, 2 Great Egrets, 1 belted kingfisher, 3 Green Herons, 15 Double 
Crested Cormorants flying together, 4 mallards or mixed breed, the pair of 
owls at night and 1 marsh wren.

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Bethi Carver