[EBB Sightings] Mitchell Canyon

Mitchell Canyon highlights for Monday, 4/16. (North side of Mt. Diablo)

Warblers in order of abundance:
Yellow-rumped (Audubon's)
Orange-crowned
Nashville (4 seen  at 3 locations from intersection of Red Rd. to about
1/2 mile up Mitchell Canyon)
Yellow-rumped (Myrtle)
Wilson's (heard only)

Note: Most warblers in mixed flocks foraging in "live" oaks.

Flycathers:
3 Hammond's (before Red Rd.)
1 Dusky (about 1/4 mile up Red Rd.)
1 Pacific-slope (heard only)
Black Phoebe

Hummer's:  Only Anna's

Several Black-headed Grosbeaks seen and heard starting at Red Rd.
intersection

Woodpeckers: Downy, Hairy, Nuttall's, Acorn

Blue-gray Gnatcather at Red. Rd. intersection

Vireos: Cassin's and Warbling (others saw Hutton's)

Endemics in flower: Mt. Diable Sunflower (Helianthella castanea) in
chaparral along Red Rd.; Mt. Diablo Globe Tulip (Calochortus pulchelus)
along Mitchell Can.

--Ted R.--