[EBB Sightings] Black-throated Gray Warbler at Hollis-Doyle

Today during a break in the weather, I tried for the Palm Warbler at Hollis-Doyle Park in Emeryville. No Palm, but an adult male Black-throated Gray Warbler was found feeding in the bare street trees along Hollis near the intersection with 62nd. I followed the bird across Hollis and down the next block of 62nd, where it surprised me by flying into the impatiens beds next to the sidewalk, where it scurried around like a mouse. Here it let me get within a few feet of it and see the tell-tale yellow supraloral spot and plain gray back as it hopped from impatiens to camelia to ground and back. It eventually flew into a tree-lined parking lot at the end of 62nd, where I got it mixed up with a Townsend's and lost it. 

Other highlights included a bright Orange-crowned Warbler at the intersection of Doyle and 63rd (the next street down Doyle after 62nd and the park), and an adult Thayer's Gull with the typical very narrow black slivers on the wingtips flying overhead with a small flock of other gulls. 

Although it does not show most of the area as a park, a Google Maps map of "61st Street, Emeryville, CA" will show where everything is.

Noah Arthur

Oakland
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