[EBB Sightings] Canyon Wren, Hermit Warbler - Mines Rd.

Hi Birders,

At 5 pm today, I had a CANYON  WREN singing down in the canyon below the road 
at the MM 13 pullout (the "13" is  painted on the pavement at this spot).  
While I was waiting around for the  CANW to sing again (and maybe catch a 
glimpse -- yeah, right!), a male  Townsend's Warbler flew into an oak tree right in 
front of me.  I was  following the progress of the TOWA, when it flew a couple 
trees north in the  company of two other birds.  I followed them up the road 
and found a  stunning male HERMIT WARBLER and a Wilson's Warbler.  Also 
foraging in the  oaks along the road were two silent Warbling Vireos and a female 
Townsend's  Warbler.  The Canyon Wren sang and called on and off for the hour 
and  a quarter that I was in the area, but I never did get a look at  it.

Earlier in the afternoon, maybe around 1:30, I had a Prairie Falcon  flying 
near MM 11.93 (a Big Year nemesis bird put to rest).

Just goes to  show you don't have to get up at the freakin' crack of dawn to 
get good birds --  can you tell I'm not a morning person?  :-)

Good birding,
Kathy  Robertson   
Hayward, CA  




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