[EBB Sightings] bird activity is....mushrooming

Earlier this week, I too heard a  brief partial song of a Western flycatcher in Strawberry Canyon. had dismissed it as mistaken idenity...,

> Date: Fri, 29 Feb 2008 07:35:53 -0800
> From: amanitarita at sbcglobal.net
> To: sightings at diabloaudubon.com
> Subject: [EBB Sightings] bird activity is....mushrooming
> Hi Gang,
> With all the signs of spring around (lemony blooms of
> leatherwood and sprightly milk maids, even a first
> white trillium), I couldn't help but notice the
> burgeoning bird activity in the brief moments that I
> have been looking up from the ground.
> On Sunday at Lake Chabot, I heard the first snatches
> of a Swainson's thrush song, and just maybe the first
> few notes of an Olive Sided Flycatcher (Quick Threee,
> hold the beers), too.
> Yesterday at Huckleberry Preserve I was surrounded by
> a soon to be dissolved, mixed species flock of birds,
> in singles and pairs: bushtits, CG chickadees and even
> a spectacled, fat billed vireo...could it have been a
> Bells? They were unfazed by my presence, and the vireo
> in particular gave me a rather hard look as it gleaned
> its final meal of the fading day.
> I heard the first high, chittering notes of white
> throated swifts over my house in Oakland yesterday.
> Might have to actually start carrying my binocs when I
> walk the woods. It's almost time for the
> fungal/feathered changing of the guard...
> Debbie Viess
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