[EBB Sightings] Phainopeplas at Lime Ridge

This morning, I saw 3 male Phainopeplas in their usual spring hotspot at 
Lime Ridge Open Space in Walnut Creek.  To see them, start up the trail 
from the end of Valley Vista Road (across from the Boundary Oaks Golf 
Course clubhouse).  At the first junction, bear left to continue on the 
Ohlone Trail.  The Phainopeplas' favorite spot is the trees on the left 
just past the gate across the trail about 100 yards after the junction.  
They range along the trail, above the golf driving range and police 
firing range to the old quarry just beyond the trail that follows the 
power line up the hill (Manzanita Trail).  Also present at Lime Ridge 
were a Say's Phoebe in grasslands at the top of the ridge and singing 
Rufous-crowned Sparrow in chaparral in the Phainopepla zone.

- Joel Herr
Alamo