[EBB Sightings] Mitchell Canyon Thursday field trip

Sorry I missed the field trip today. However, I did my weekly bike ride 
(very slow) up Northgate Road to just past the junction of Mt Diablo, and 
noted the following species (in no particular order). (I also heard 
songs/calls I did not recognize):

Oak Titmouse
White-breasted Nuthatch
Western Tanager
Western Kingbird
Bullock's Oriole
Dark-eyed Junco
Western Bluebird
Purple Finch
Brown Towhee
Acorn Woodpecker
(various) Swallows
Rufous-crowned Sparrow
Yellow-rumped Warbler
American Goldfinch
California Quail (I saw about 6-8 individuals a little beyond the junction, 
scurrying across the road)
Wrentit (heard only)
Scrub Jay and other common sightings


Bob Hislop
Walnut Creek



----- Original Message ----- 
From: "Hugh Harvey" 
To: "sightings" 
Sent: Thursday, April 30, 2009 9:28 PM
Subject: [EBB Sightings] Mitchell Canyon Thursday field trip


> This morning the Mt. Diablo Audubon Society had a field trip to Mitchell
> Canyon.  29 birders attended.  Highlights were a Prairie Falcon which flew
> right over the parking lot before we started walking, a nearby Western
> Tanager, a singing California Thrasher well seen in the sge above the Red
> Rock Road/Globe Lily trail junction after crossing the creek, and a
> wonderful Olive-sided Flycatcher in the same area.  The flycatcher never
> called, but eventually flashed its white rump tufts.  We also had several
> calling Ash-throated Flycatchers, busy Black-headed Grosbeaks and an 
> active
> Bushtit nest just before the creek crossing.  49 species were seen or 
> heard.
> Hugh B. Harvey
> Walnut Creek
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