[EBB Sightings] Leona Canyon Regional Open Space Preserve and Joaquin Miller Park

5/3/08, Leona Canyon Regional Open Space Preserve and Joaquin Miller Park, Oakland, CA

Highlights of local interest and phenological/seasonal intrigue: 

My spirited Merritt College class (?Bird Song Ecology?) students enjoyed detecting the following species (birds species and, in addition, nine species of butterflies):

1. Leona Canyon Regional Open Space Preserve (adjacent to Merritt College):

- SWAINSON?S THRUSH (2, heard, one kind of call note only; no song)

- SHARP-SHINNED HAWK (1) (kudos to Harv Wilson for initially spotting it)

- Honorable mentions worth sharing and telling:
	- WILSON?s WARBLER (2 song variants heard)
- ORANGE-CROWNED WARBLER (5 seen and heard, with the rare privilege of the orange-crown present in one individual)

- PYGMY NUTHATCH (many heard)

2. Joaquin Miller Park, Oakland, CA

- WINTER WREN (1, two-note call heard, then bird seen)

- SWAINSON?S THRUSH (1, heard, one kind of call note only; no song)

- BAND-TAILED PIGEON (1, flyover)

- Honorable mention worth sharing and telling:
 
- PYGMY NUTHATCH (heard, and one seen in open on perch)



Daniel Edelstein

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