[EBB Sightings] Yellow-rumped Warbler in a Bottle-brush...pic...another commoner now

As "winter" in California progresses, the Yellow-rumped Warbler returns in huge numbers. With their call, they often overwhelm the Anna's we commonly hear on a walk through trees.

Yellow-rumps are particularly attracted to the Australian trees and shrubs that begin to bloom now.  You can hear them fill a blooming Blue Eucalyptus.  They're busy gleaning insects.

Here is one posing momentarily in another Australian import, a Bottle-brush, at Oyster Bay in San Leandro (along the nature trail).

http://www.pbase.com/image/119383330

Anna's, Towhees, and Bushtits also flew in and out.