[EBB Sightings] Tri-Color at LLNL

(I'm posting this again, as it didn't seem to go out
yesterday)
    
Thurs, while walking at lunch along Arroyo Las Positas
where it passes through Lawrence Livermore Lab, I
spotted one male TRI-COLOR BLACKBIRD.

Since the Audubon Society is surveying Tri-Color BBs
this weekend, I doubled back and counted all the birds
I saw along 1/2 mile of trail during 30 min.  This
trail, inside the north boundary of LLNL, is the
border between a large grassland area and the arroyo,
which was marshy, reedy and shaded by pines. My survey
was 'old school' - i.e. naked eye - as binculars are
not allowed on site.  Unfortunately, I did not see
another male Tri-Color.  I saw many female BBs that I
assume were Red-Wings as they were paired with male
Red-Wings.

TRI-COLOR BLACKBIRD (1)
RED-WING BLACKBIRD (38) - 19 pairs displaying and
nesting
HOUSE FINCH (9)
AMERICAN GOLDFINCH (2)
RED-TAIL HAWK (1)
AM. CROW (4)
COM. RAVEN (2)
BLACK PHOEBE (1)
BUSHTIT (3)
WEST. SCRUB JAY (2)
MO. DOVE (8)
EUR. STARLING (4)
CEDAR WAXWING (18)
AM. ROBIN (1)


Also of note, 3 pair of WHITE-TAILED KITES have built
nests with the LLNL site.  

-Bill Clark
Livermore, CA




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