[EBB Sightings] Re: swifts in downtown Oakland

At about 10:00 a.m. in downtown Oakland today (11th & Broadway) I first heard--and then saw--about 1/2 dozen, chittering, soaring, dipping swifts. I'm not sure which spp. they were, but it was amazing and mind-boggling to see them doing their thing amid the tall buildings in this very urbanized setting....

Lisa




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From: Lisa and Robb 
To: East Bay Birds Sightings 
Sent: Tuesday, May 26, 2009 12:50:55 PM
Subject: [EBB Sightings] I only notice large, brightly colored, slow-moving birds

I was out cycling at the Aquatic Park in Berkeley on Sunday and stopped to watch a napping Double Crested Cormorant.? He stirred from his snooze, and yawned hugely.? Until yesterday, I did not know that the inside of a cormorant's mouth was BRIGHT BLUE!

Photo at my blog:

http://howsrobb.blogspot.com/2009/05/post-holiday-blues.html

There must have been thirty other cormorants swimming in a group in the middle of the water.? At any moment, at least five of these would be splashing around wildly, as if they were songbirds in a suburban bird-bath.? 

All very entertaining, if not very exotic.

Lisa Lazar
Oakland
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