[EBB Sightings] Preying Bewick's

[EBB Sightings] Preying Bewick's

Alan Howe
Tue Oct 13 11:35:31 PDT 2009
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    Walking along 59th between Shattuck & Telegraph (north Oakland) yesterday I came upon quite a bit of activity in and under 2 trees with berries (one with red, the other with tiny white). 
    There were, I think, 2 Bewick's wrens, one of which pursued a moth/butterfly in flight, which I've never seen before. It caught the insect for just a second, but lost it, then fluttered after it.
    
    Also seen:
    Bushtits
    Yellow-rumped warbler (my FOS sighting)
    Emponid flycatchers
    California towhee
    Scrub jay
    House finches
    House sparrow.
    Just down the street there was a Black phoebe, too.
    
    Alan Howe
    North Oakland
    
    
          
    


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