[EBB Sightings] Fwd: Big doings at Jewel Lake

--- Phila Rogers  wrote:

> Date: Fri, 21 Sep 2007 19:29:45 -0700 (PDT)
> From: Phila Rogers 
> Subject: Big doings at Jewel Lake
> To: emilie strauss 
> 
> 
> 
> Dear Birders:
> 
> After completing my neighborhood search for the first Golden-crowns,
> I've been going over to Jewel Lake at Emilie Strauss' urging.  She
> was there both Wednesday and Thursday mornings making the circle
around the lake 'harvesting' migrating warblers and a lot more -- some
of which I was lucky enough to see.  Among the warblers -- Townsend's,
Hermit, Black-throated Gray, Yellow, Wilson's, MacGillivray's, along
with Warbling Vireos and Wood Pewees. We heard both newly-arrived
Hermit
> Thrushes and Fox Sparrows.  Remaining at the dam, after I'd left, she
> saw Western Tanagers and Brown Creepers bathing in the standing water
> on the spillway.
> 
> Yesterday noon I was part of the census group led by Bob Lewis at the
> other end of Wildcat Creek near where it enters San Pablo Bay. 
> Except for several raptors, crow, gulls and a brief Clapper Rail
vocalization coming from the marsh, the area awaits the winter rains
and the arrival of the waterbirds.  But at the nearby sewage treatment
plant which is part of the extended census area, we saw many Least
Sandpipers, Black-necked Stilts, Killdeer, and like an comparative
illustration out of a shorebird guide,  one Lesser and one Greater
Yellowlegs flew in and
> posed together exhibiting different bill lengths and forehead slopes
> until even Bob was satisfied.   
> 
> For the next few days where Wildcat Creek is dammed to create
> Jewel Lake is where the action will be as the last of the season's
migrants stop to feed in this most welcoming place.
> 
> Phila Rogers
> 
> 
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