[EBB Sightings] Orange Bishop, Now Added Bonus!

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Dear EBB Folks,

Thanks to Stephanie's post, you now know how to get to where the 
Orange Bishop was.  The added bonus is that the banding nets at CCFS 
are just across the creek, and a Worm-eating Warbler was banded there 
on Sunday and was seen there again on Monday.  I spent 5 hours there 
today and didn't see the bird.  It must have been foraging at the 
edge of the Coyote Creek Trail instead of hanging out along the CCFS 
side of the creek (but hid when Stephanie came by).

Bill

At 04:44 PM 11/18/2008, Stephanie Floyd wrote:
>As Bill points out, the bird was seen in the south bay (Milpitas, 
>Santa Clara County), but Chuck posted his great photos of the 
>beautiful bird here, and some birders have expressed interest here, 
>so I'm commenting here. It's only two miles south of Alameda County, 
>anyway.  Orange bishop is not on the ABA checklist (it's not 
>countable), but it's very pretty, and I've never seen one, so I went 
>looking for it today. I didn't find it, but I had a lovely walk 
>along the Coyote Creek Trail, and I saw many other delightful birds.
>To get to the site, turn off McCarthy Blvd. onto Ranch Drive (posted 
>"no outlet") across from Borders (off Highway 237 at McCarthy 
>Ranch).  Several parking spaces are in a circle just outside the 
>Cisco complex's parking lot next to the Coyote Creek Trail sign. 
>Walk north on the trail next to the squash patch - plenty of crowned 
>sparrows to enjoy - past Cisco until you come to a small farm.
>Coyote Creek flows on the west side of the trail, and birds fly from 
>the trees on that side into the crops on the east side. Highlights 
>were two northern flickers and two Nuttall's woodpeckers flying into 
>the corn stalks and a Lincoln's sparrow on a post among the 
>tomatoes.  A fox sparrow kicked around on the west side and two 
>cedar waxwings perched high up in the trees by the creek. I looked 
>unsuccessfully for the orange bishop as far north as the 
>green-roofed barn at the next property, where I found a 
>red-shouldered hawk on the wires beside the trail.
>Earlier is better in terms of the light. At noon, the whole area was 
>bright, but after 2:00, the west side fell into shade as the sun 
>sank in the sky.
>Stephanie Floyd
>Fremont
>--- On Tue, 11/18/08, Bill Bousman  wrote:
> > From: Bill Bousman 
> > Subject: RE: [EBB Sightings] Orange Bishop
> > To: "Laura Gee" , "'Judi Sierra'" 
> , sightings at diabloaudubon.com
> > Date: Tuesday, November 18, 2008, 1:44 PM
> > Dear EBB Folks:
> >
> > I recommend you purchase a copy of the Santa Clara County
> > Breeding Bird Atlas, available at the Santa Clara Valley
> > Audubon Society, to know more about the status of birds in
> > the South Bay.  But $40 is $40, so below is my contribution
> > to you from an appendix in the atlas.  By the way, the
> > citation to Smithson is for his Masters Thesis, this is our
> > own Scott Smithson, now director of the San Francisco Bay
> > Bird Observatory.  By the way, some recent South Bay photos
> > show these birds feeding on tule seeds.
> >
> > Bill Bousman
> > Menlo Park
> >
> >
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