[EBB Sightings] Mitchell Canyon, Sibley and more

Highlights of this morning spent wandering the Mitchell Canyon, Black 
Point, Globe Lily, and White Canyon trails in Mt. Diablo State Park:

Hammond's Flycatcher - 1 probable on White Canyon Trail.  The bird was 
silent and I never got a look at the breast, but the grayish color, 
fairly long primaries, wide but not teardrop-shaped eyering, short dark 
bill, and lack of tail pumping made me think Hammond's.
Ash-throated Flycatcher - 1 Black Point Trail above Globe Lily Trail
Blue-gray Gnatcatchers - 2 Black Point Trail above Globe Lily Trail and 
2 Salvia Road.
Cassin's Vireo - 3-4 White Canyon and Mitchell Canyon
Hutton's Vireo - several
Orange-crowned Warbler - many
Yellow-rumped Warbler - a few
Black-throated Gray Warbler - 1 White Canyon
Townsend's Warbler - 1 White Canyon
Wilson's Warbler - several
Bullock's Oriole - 2 White Canyon

Yesterday morning in Sibley Volcanic Regional Park:

Rufous-crowned Sparrow - 2 along main ridge above Quarry Trail
Lark Sparrow - 3 ditto
Hairy Woodpecker - 2 copulating Loop Trail
Golden Eagle - 2 flying around, crashing through vegetation, and 
perching close to the ground in the dense eucalyptus on the Loop Trail, 
acting like jumbo-sized accipiters.  They were screened when perched and 
I couldn't tell what they doing.  I've never seen Golden Eagles below 
the forest canopy before.

And some late reports from last weekend:

Black-headed Grosbeak - Bird Trail, Chabot RP, 4/4
Pygmy Nuthatch - 2 building nest in snag along entrance road to Chabot 
Space and Science Center, which is on Skyline Blvd sandwiched between 
Redwood RP and Joaquin Miller Park, Oakland, 4/5
Winter Wren - belting it out on the Cinderella Trail, Joaquin Miller 
Park , 4/5

Good birding,

Glen Tepke
Oakland
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