[EBB Sightings] Townsend Solitaire Sunol RP

This morning while looking for migrating western warblers I came across a
bird sitting high in a leafless tree. I was directly underneath the bird in
poor viewing conditions, sprinkling rain and backlit low clouds. I'm
embarrassed to say I could not identify the bird on the spot but noted the
few field marks I could see from my position. Later when I returned home and
thumbed through my field guides I came across the plate for Townsends
Solitaire and it hit me. My field marks where slender and long tailed, light
underside, black and white tail and occasional I could barely make out some
wing marking on one side. The bird sat on short legs and acted like a
flycatcher (small head on swivel) but the bill wasn't typical flycatcher. 
The location was not far from the location of last winters Townsends
Solitaire, perhaps 200-300 yards as the bird fly's. I was on the east side
of the creek about a 3/4 of a mile north west of the visitors center.

This afternoon I found one Swainson's Hawk above Kelso Rd. Two Western
Kingbirds were fly catching from the fence near the corner of Mountain House
and Grant Line Rd.


Steve Huckabone
Alameda County
Livermore California
USA