[EBB Sightings] Sycamore Grove, Livermore

We biked and birded Sycamore Grove Park in Livermore for the first time the 
other day.

It's a lovely park with a great, flat, paved bike path that runs for several 
miles along a creek down to the VA Hospital/Wente Vineyards south of 
Livermore. The path runs through a large stand of sycamores, and is adjacent 
to pastures, vineyards, and orchards, and ends up in pine-oak woods.

Although we didn't see any rarities, we did see lots of typical winter 
birds, viz:

      California Quail

      Turkey Vulture

      White-tailed Kite

      Accipiter sp

      Red-shouldered Hawk

      Red-tailed Hawk

      American Kestrel

      Mourning Dove

      Anna's Hummingbird

      Acorn Woodpecker

      Nuttall's Woodpecker

      Northern Flicker

      Black Phoebe

      Loggerhead Shrike

      Western Scrub Jay

      Yellow-billed Magpie

      American Crow

      Common Raven

      Oak Titmouse

      Bushtit

      White-breasted Nuthatch

      Bewick's Wren

      Ruby-crowned Kinglet

      Western Bluebird

      Hermit Thrush

      American Robin

      Northern Mockingbird

      European Starling

      Cedar Waxwing

      Yellow-rumped Warbler

      California Towhee

      White-crowned Sparrow

      Golden-crowned Sparrow

      House Finch

      Lesser Goldfinch