[EBB Sightings] Swainson's Thrush, W. W.-Pewee & Other Spp. - San Pablo Res./Valle Vista/Pinehurst Rd.

4/26/08

My class from Merritt College enjoyed detecting the following species of both local interest and seasonal/phenological intrigue: 

Valle Vista Staging Area (Canyon Rd.)

- SWAINSON?S THRUSH (4 heard, including two different call patterns (but no song heard) ); thanks and kudos to Roger Hartwell, who first heard one call pattern made by the first individual 

- WESTERN WOOD-PEWEE (1 seen)

Pinehurst Rd (via Canyon Rd.)

- WINTER WREN (2 heard singing)

- PILEATED WOODPECKER (1 female seen and heard)

E.B.M.U.D. San Pablo Reservoir area

- RUFOUS HUMMING. (1, male, seen, including characteristic courtship ?shallow U-shaped flight dance?)

- PURPLE FINCH (1 male, seen)

- COOPER'S HAWK (1) (ID'ed by Harv Wilson intially)

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Also worth mentioning:

- two kinds of song patterns detected in WILSON'S WARBLER (San Pablo Res. area)

- two kinds of song patterns heard from ORANGE-CROWNED WARBLER (same area)

Daniel Edelstein

Novato, CA (Bay Area)

&


Ellison Bay, WI

http://www.warblerwatch.com 

http://warblerwatch.blogspot.com (my blog devoted to wood-warblers)

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