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

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

DANIEL EDELSTEIN
Sun May 04 07:41:38 PDT 2008
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    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
    
    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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    Novato, CA 94949-6628 USA
    415-382-1827 (voice & DSL fax)
    
    


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