[EBB Sightings] Mines Road Phainopepla

Bill Bousman
Wed Nov 25 21:09:15 PST 2009

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Folks:

Today, 11/25/09, descending Mines Road into Livermore, Iver Brown and 
I spotted a PHAINOPEPLA in an oak west of the road near M.P. 
7.96.  It was strongly backlit, unfortunately, and I'm unsure of the 
sex, although the floppy crest was obvious.  Once we had pulled off 
the road and walked back to the site the bird had disappeared.  The 
oak had a number of thick mistletoe growths.  There appeared to be a 
good crop of berries on the mistletoe.

Bill Bousman, Menlo Park

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