[EBB Sightings] Mitchell Canyon birds - 8 April

Hi E. B. Birders,

Mitchell Canyon, Sunday, 8 April 2007:

Nashville Warbler -2 singing, only one seen
Black-throated Gray Warbler - 3
Cassin's Vireo - 1 
Ash-throated Flycatcher - 1 heard only
Black-headed Grosbeak - 3
Sage Sparrow - 2 singing - as previously reported by
Ted, one seen foraging within 20 feet of Red Rd.
Bullock's Oriole - 2

Also singing:

Pacific-slope Flycatcher
Hutton's Vireo
Warbling Vireo
House Wrens
Ruby-crowned Kinglet
Blue-gray Gnatcatcher
Hermit Thrush (no Swainson's Thrush)
California Thrasher
Orange-crowned Warbler 
Wilson's Warblers 
Yellow-rumped Warblers -small flocks in many
locations!
Purple Finch

Wrentit
California Towhee (with the same tempo as Wrentits)
.....and many more regularly heard species.

I did not hear or see any Lazuli Buntings.  
(Out of Area Report:  We saw a male Lazuli Bunting
south of the junction of Mines Road and Del Puerto
Canyon Road yesterday, so they're in the Diablo
Range!)

All the Best Birding,
Denise Wight
Moraga,  CA