[EBB Sightings] Contra Costa County Little Blue Heron (not ReddishEgret)

Kent Fickett reported to me and I reported to Steve Glover a Little-blue 
Heron last year at about this same time from the pond at Roddy Ranch golf 
course in Antioch.

Jimm Edgar
----- Original Message ----- 
From: "Mike Feighner" 
To: "EBB" 
Cc: "Greg Scyphers" ; "Jim Holmes" 
Sent: Saturday, April 28, 2007 8:51 AM
Subject: [EBB Sightings] Contra Costa County Little Blue Heron (not 
ReddishEgret)


> EBB:
> James Holmes sent me a correction on behalf of Greg T. Scyphers.  The
> reported bird of April 26th was in fact a Little Blue Heron and not a
> Reddish Egret as originally posted.
> Still a Little Blue Heron is a good bird for Contra Costa County.  I
> encourage others to seek out and report success or lack of success in
> tracking down the Antioch Little Blue Heron.
> Over the years I do not recall having ever heard a report of a Little Blue
> Heron in Contra Costa County.  I have seen a Little Blue Heron only once 
> in
> neighboring Alameda County (5 August 1999).  Just how many previous 
> records
> of Little Blue Heron are there for Contra Costa County?
> Correction posted to Northern California BirdBox:
> Contra Costa Co.-CORRECTION
> ----------------
> On Apr 26, while driving to a training exercise in Antioch/Pittsburg at 
> the
> sewage treatment plant off 10th Street, while on 10th, an alternate 
> plumaged
> LITTLE BLUE HERON flew over the road into the Dow Wetlands area. The Dow
> Wetlands is right at the boarder of Antioch and Pittsburg. (Greg T.
> Scyphers)
> --
> Mike Feighner, Livermore, CA, Alameda County
> -----Original Message-----
> From: James Holmes Jr [mailto:jfholmes at ucdavis.edu]
> Sent: Saturday, April 28, 2007 8:18 AM
> To: feinerVogel94551 at comcast.net
> Subject: RE: Little Blue Heron [not Reddish Egret]
> Mike,
> Thanks, can you send out another email and state that it is a LITTLE BLUE
> HERON and not a REDDISH EGRET.
> Greg accidentally sent it to me as a REDDISH EGRET as he was working on a
> REDDISH EGRET submission for the Nevada Rare birds commiteee.
> Thanks and sorry for the confusion.
> Jim
>> James:
>>
>> Actually, Pittsburg and Antioch are two well-known Contra Costa Counties.
>> Therefore, I am including East Bay Birds listserv
>> (http://www.diabloaudubon.com/mailman2/listinfo/sightings) which
>> covers both Alameda and Contra Costa Counties.  Sorry, North Bay Birds
>> recipients, you received the original email in error and will have to
>> turn your RADAR about 80 miles east to north-eastern Contra Costa
>> County.  This may in fact be a first for Contra Costa County?
>>
>> From the Northern California BirdBox transcript:
>>
>> Contra Costa Co.
>> ----------------
>> On Apr 26, while driving to a training exercise in Antioch/Pittsburg
>> at the sewage treatment plant off 10th Street, while on 10th, an
>> alternate plumaged [Little Blue Heron] flew over the road into the Dow
>> Wetlands area.
>> The Dow Wetlands is right at the border of Antioch and Pittsburg.
>> (Greg T. Scyphers)
>>
>> --
>> Mike Feighner, Livermore, CA, Alameda County
>>
>>
>> >-----Original Message-----
>> >From: northbaybirds at yahoogroups.com
>> >[mailto:northbaybirds at yahoogroups.com] On Behalf Of James Holmes Jr
>> >Sent: Friday, April 27, 2007 4:23 AM
>> >To: northbaybirds at yahoogroups.com
>> >Cc: calbirds at yahoogroups.com
>> >Subject: [NBB] FWD: Reddish Egret
>> >
>> >
>> >I was sent this info on a [Little Blue Heron] in Northern Cal by a very
>> >good Nevada birder.
>> >
>> >Good luck,
>> >
>> >
>> >Jim,
>> >
>> >
>> >
>> >I don't know how rare this is in the bay area, but I thought I would
>> >let you know.  If it is a significant sighting feel free to pass it
>> >on to the pertinent list serve.  Today, I was driving to a training
>> >exercise in Antioch/Pittsburg at the sewage treatment plant off 10th
>> >Street.  While driving down 10th, an alternate plumaged [Little Blue
> Heron]
>> >flew over the road into the Dow Wetlands area.  I know [Little Blue
> Heron]
>> >is regularly seen in Southern California, but I didn't know how good
>> >this record is for the bay
>> >area.   The Dow Wetlands is right at the boarder of Antioch
>> >and Pittsburg as
>> >best as I could tell.
>> >
>> >Thanks,
>> >
>> >Greg T. Scyphers
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