200 Cedar Waxwings in Oakland
Fri, 25 Apr
2003 12:29:31 -0700
From: Larry Tunstall
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Date: Fri, 25 Apr 2003 07:03:59 -0700 (PDT)
From: Sue Morgan
Subject: Cedar WaxwingsI saw more than 200 Cedar Waxwings April 24 on Tiffin Ave at upper Whittle Ave, Oakland, while walking my dog. They were swooping and eating from some bush on the hill in my neighbor's front yard (not sure the kind of bush), and they alternated from the "eatin'" to the utility wires to a redwood tree across the street. I had seen much smaller numbers in the past few days, but yesterday took the time to count and marvel at their aerial choreography.
Sue Morgan
Oakland, CA
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Calliope Hummingbird in Oakland Hills
Fri,
25 Apr 2003 21:14:36 -0700
From: Larry Tunstall
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Date: Fri, 25 Apr 2003 20:23:04 PDT
Around 5 PM today at Sibley Volcanic Regional Preserve (Oakland Hills), I headed north on the trail that descends the Skyline Ridge. At the bottom where the trail bends and passes the stream I saw three male Wilson Warblers in clean fresh plumage. I pishing and they bounced around me in the same shrub. A hummer flew in and perched and I had the best long looks I've had at a male Calliope Hummingbird as it rested. A bit later another Wilson's Warbler male came by me and I realized I had my yellow A's cap on and that might explain their interest - GO A's - or a miniwavelet of migrants was grounded and resting in the dell.
Mark Rauzon
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More Cedar Waxwings in Oakland Hills
Sat,
26 Apr 2003 00:03:12 -0700
From: Larry Tunstall
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Fri, 25 Apr 2003 17:26:09 -0700
About 50 of them [Cedar Waxwings] were eating the holly berries behind my place (intersection of Mountaingate Way and Castle Dr bordering Larry Ln, Oakland) on April 23rd.
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Olive-sided Flycatcher in Oakland Hills
Sat,
26 Apr 2003 11:37:35 PDT
From: Sylvia Sykora
I heard my first seasonal Olive-sided Flycatcher calls this morning from two different individuals. I heard first calls on the same date in Spring 2000, with dates of April 19 and April 21 for the intervening years. Calls were heard from my yard near the Skyline Blvd & Castle Dr intersection in the Oakland Hills at elevation 1500 feet and were coming from a nearby neighbor's tree.
Sylvia Sykora
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Re: Olive-sided Flycatcher in Oakland Hills
Sat, 26 Apr 2003 17:52:31 -0700
From: Johan Langewis
I must have heard the same Olive-sided Flycatcher that Sylvia Sykora heard this morning, the first for this Spring. I am also in the Oakland Hills, below Skyline Blvd, south of Shepherd Canyon. In the last 10 years here the arrival dates have varied from April 14 to May 2. April 26 is about average.
Johan Langewis
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MacGillivray's Warbler in Berkeley Hills
Sun,
27 Apr 2003 12:44:15 -0700
From: John Poole
Dear Birders:
While hiking out the Nimitz Way from Inspiration Point in Tilden Regional Park (Berkeley Hills), I found a singing male MacGillivray's Warbler. It was in the coyote bushes at about the 3.2-mile mark. (Check for mile markers on the pavement. There is a red 3.3-mile mark just after the spot where the bird was singing.)
I understand that MacGillivray's Warblers usually nest in this area on the eastern slope.
Good Birding!
John Poole
Editor's Note: Another MacGillivray's Warbler was reported seen by an experienced birder on the northeast side of Vollmer Peak in Tilden Regional Park. --Larry Tunstall
Hayward Regional Shoreline, Grant Ave access
Sun, 27 Apr 2003 15:36:13 -0700
From: Rusty Scalf
The Golden Gate Audubon Society walk this morning at the end of Grant Ave in San Lorenzo (north end of Hayward Regional Shoreline) found at least 3 active American Avocet and 1 active Black-necked Stilt nest on islands in the little lagoon immediately north of the treatment plant. Surprising too was a single American Avocet chick; very young, perhaps just hatched. This is earlier than I remembered.
Shorebirds are well along into breeding plumage. A Least Sandpiper was seen with an aluminum band on its left leg (below the knee) and orange over yellow plastic bands on the right leg, above the knee. A report has been sent to the Canadian office that maintains the shorebird database for the hemisphere.
Nice day. Fourteen attendees including two visitors, one from Denver, one from Phoenix, who happened to note the trip on the GGAS web page.
Rusty Scalf
Re: Olive-sided Flycatcher in Oakland Hills
Sun, 27 Apr 2003 18:18:34 -0700
From: Bob Power
Hi all:
Amy and I were thinking about wandering around Sylvia and Johan's neighbor's backyards in search of the Olive-sided Flycatchers, but cooler heads prevailed (Amy's) and we went to Robert Sibley Volcanic Regional Preserve instead. We meandered down the Ridge Trail (north and downhill out of the parking lot) and it was entirely too easy. There on one of those bare tendrils of wood that poke up through the woods off to the east of the trail was a perched Olive-sided Flycatcher. And, it was flycatching for our afternoon's entertainment. First a smallish fly, but visible, and then a nice big dragonfly. You could almost hear it crunch as it went down. Looked like a scene from Survivor Amazon, which I uhhmmm heard about from someone.... That's right, I don't actually watch it, I heard about it........
Good birding,
Bob Power
Oakland, CA
Alameda County
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