[EBB Sightings] Red-shouldered Hawks, Praire Falcons and White-tailed Kite

Alameda County has an Eastern Alameda County Conservation Strategy planning
group in place.
I'm representing the Audubon Society in the planning group.
The committee is establishing a conservation strategy for open lands east
of HY 680 using a matrix of land cover and wildlife species.
Land and wildlife under consideration include special status, threaten and
endangered - we as citizen birders can have an input adding species data.
So Burrowing Owl and Golden Eagle are listed in the early documents.
Land cover includes all the possible eastern Alameda County land cover (
habitat), except what went missing is the riparian land cover.
The steering committee will move to formally add riparian land cover and
consider new species also.
May I ask that if you have population trends that you may have charted and
- or specific historical sighting records for the following birds please e
mail me.
Your information is critical for adding species for evaluation which
professional wildlife managers are missing data.
1. Red-shoulder Hawks
2. Song Sparrows
3. Great Horned Owl
4. Sharp-shinned Hawk
5. Flycatcher species ( Willow?)
6. want to add a comment on another species, feel free to do so.
Also missing for grassland species evaluation is the White-tailed Kite and
Prairie Falcon.
Also recent Kite Fox sightings east of HY 680.
There is a two week window to assemble new information for submission.
Thanks for reading this long message.
Regards

Richard Cimino
rscimino at earthlink.net
Ohlone Audubon Conservation Chair
Pleasanton, Alameda County, Cal.