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

	

On Fri, 29 Feb 2008 09:48:35 -0800, judi sierra 
wrote:

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

Amazing!

Earliest previous arrival in Southern California is March 2nd.  Earliest in
Northern California is March 11th.

On Fri, 29 Feb 2008 07:35:53 -0800 (PST), debbie viess

>and even
>a spectacled, fat billed vireo...could it have been a
>Bells? 

Wouldn't that be something!  The last record of Bell's Vireo in Alameda
County that I know of was seen by Gordon Bolander in Corral Hollow in
August 1932.  Anybody know of more recent records?  

-- 
Joseph Morlan, Pacifica, CA 94044   jmorlan (at) ccsf.edu 
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