[EBB Sightings] Summer Camp Birds

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Post-breeding dispersal and/or early migration gave us some locally 
unusual birds this week.  Not fitting the above categories was a Western 
Wood-Pewee still sitting on a nest along the Wildcat Canyon Trail, but 
we also found our first Hermit Warbler of the season, in the pines just 
north of the Nature Center in Tilden.  A pair of Western Tanagers was in 
pines at the intersection of the Seaview and Big Springs Trails, and 
nearby, an adult Male Bullock's Oriole flew over us.  At the Berkeley 
Marina, we spotted Green Heron, the continuing immature White-tailed 
Kite, Heermann's Gulls, and two different juvenile Common Murres.  The 
Albany mudflats had the over-summering Northern Pintail and a juvenile 
Least Tern begging from its parent.  Immature and adult Glaucous-winged 
Gulls appeared at both waterfront sites.

Last week was much quieter, but we heard and then saw locally uncommon 
Ash-throated Flycatcher and White-breasted Nuthatch in Tilden.

Brian Fitch & Crew