Examiner Article
Sun, 03 Oct 1999 08:20:33 -0700
From: Kay Loughman
East Bay Birders,
Our very own Courtenay Peddle has a column on fall bird chasing in the Metro section of this morning's San Francisco Examiner.
Kay Loughman
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Re: Examiner Article
Sun, 03 Oct 1999 09:10:44 -0700
From: Mike Feighner
Can someone replay the article here on EBB? I'm too lazy to go and get an copy of the Examiner. I get the San Jose Mercury News.
Mike Feighner, Livermore, CA
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http://www.sfgate.com/wais/search/arch-pro.shtml
Sun, 03 Oct 1999 11:56:04 -0700
From: Mike Feighner
East Bay Birders:
Thanks to John O'Connel I have the following link for the San Francisco Chronicle and Examiner:
http://www.sfgate.com/wais/search/arch-pro.shtml
However, I am lacking some key words for the search for Courtenay Peddle's article on Fall Bird Chasing. In the search I selected Examiner Metro Section for 10-3-99 and key words "bird chasing". I also tried the author's name. None of this turned up anything. What is the byline or arcticle title? It sounds as though special arrangements need to be made between the freelance author and the newspaper for this to work.
Here is the result of the search:
No results for this search. Please be aware that The Gate primarily carries staff written material from the Chronicle and Examiner. Freelance and wire service stories are only available when special arrangements are made between the authors and the newspapers. If you think you are getting this message in error please modify your search and try again or contact SF Gate at support@sfgate.com
Mike Feighner, Livermore, CA
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Yardbirds
Sun, 03 Oct 1999 12:48:56 -0700
From: Kay Loughman
Well, at last the sparrows have arrived in my yard: a Fox Sparrow on September 30; several Golden-crowned Sparrows on October 1 and a White-crowned Sparrow this morning. The latest arrival dates for each of these species since I re-started record keeping in 1993. Anyone else's experience?
Kay
Peddle's article
Sun, 03 Oct 1999 12:59:37 -0700
From: Kay Loughman
The article is not available through SFGate. I tried scanning and compressing it for the listserve, and found it was too long. Later I cut it into three pieces, scanned and compressed; but each piece was still too long for the listserve. If you want it, I'm willing to try sending it to you as an e-mail attachment: tiff (compressed).
Kay Loughman
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Tilden Regional Park
Sun, 3 Oct 1999 17:26:00 -0700
From: Larry Tunstall
Not long after dawn this morning, Ore Carmi and I arrived at the Tilden Regional Park Nature Area in the Berkeley Hills - the first car in the parking lot! It was heavily overcast and cool, but there were a lot of birds audible in the area around the north end of the parking lot. As usual, a flock of chickadees and Bushtits included a few warblers and some mysterious calls that we spent lots of time trying to spot. Eventually, we made our way onto Lower Packrat Trail, where we ran across a few more of these mixed flocks before we got to Jewel Lake (or maybe the same flock was coming along to tease us). Rusty Scalf will be happy to know that this morning the area actually was "alive with birds." We found another flock with several warblers in the brush and creekside trees not far north of the Jewel Lake dam.
All in all, it was a busy morning. We didn't find any rarities, but we did get most of the expected wintering birds. Here's our list, featuring Ore's talented ears (which often led us to the birds we did eventually manage to spot and identify visually).
Double-crested Cormorant (Phalacrocorax auritus) - flyover
Red-shouldered Hawk (Buteo lineatus) - heard only
Anna's Hummingbird (Calypte anna)
Northern Flicker (Colaptes auratus)
empidonax flycatcher (Empidonax sp.)
Black Phoebe (Sayornis nigricans) - heard only
Hutton's Vireo (Vireo huttoni)
Warbling Vireo (Vireo gilvus)
Steller's Jay (Cyanocitta stelleri)
Western Scrub-Jay (Aphelocoma californica) - heard only
American Crow (Corvus brachyrhynchos) - flyover
Chestnut-backed Chickadee (Poecile rufescens)
Oak Titmouse (Baeolophus inornatus) - heard only
Bushtit (Psaltriparus minimus)
Red-breasted Nuthatch (Sitta canadensis) - heard only
Bewick's Wren (Thryomanes bewickii)
Winter Wren (Troglodytes troglodytes)
Ruby-crowned Kinglet (Regulus calendula) - lots of them
Swainson's Thrush (Catharus ustulatus) - heard only
American Robin (Turdus migratorius)
Wrentit (Chamaea fasciata) - heard only
Yellow Warbler (Dendroica petechia)
Black-throated Gray Warbler (Dendroica nigrescens)
Townsend's Warbler (Dendroica townsendi) - lots of them
Hermit Warbler (Dendroica occidentalis)
Wilson's Warbler (Wilsonia pusilla)
Spotted Towhee (Pipilo maculatus) - heard only
California Towhee (Pipilo crissalis)
Fox Sparrow (Passerella iliaca)
Song Sparrow (Melospiza melodia) - heard only
Golden-crowned Sparrow (Zonotrichia atricapilla) - one immature seen
Dark-eyed Junco (Junco hyemalis)
House Finch (Carpodacus mexicanus)
Thanks for the nice op-ed piece in today's Exonicle-Craminer, Courtenay.
Good birding, Larry
Larry Tunstall
El Cerrito CA
Re: Examiner Article
Sun, 3 Oct 1999 21:01:28 -0700
From: Sheila Junge
Courtenay Peddle's column "Joy of Birding: One Good Tern Deserves Another" may be accessed on either the SFGate web site or the San Francisco Examiner web site.
http://sfgate.com/search/
will take you to the search function on SFGate. I was able to find the article using the keyword 'tern'.
Sheila Junge
Hayward, CA
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Hilltop's secret park
Sun, 3 Oct 1999 21:02:51 -0700 (PDT)
From: Tom Condit
Marsha Feinland and I took a walk this afternoon around what I think of as "the secret park" by the Hilltop Mall in northern Richmond. This is a little valley you can access by walking down a paved road across the street from the Mechanic's Bank at Kloss and whatever-that-other-road-is (by the justly dead "Red Lobster"). It appears to be an abandoned park possibly combined with some sort of water purification equipment, which I suspect was built originally as a "mitigation" by the Hilltop developers, then left to fend for itself with no maintenance budget. Most of the amenities have disappeared.
The park itself is a small lake or large pond rimmed with willows, with brushy hillside on all sides. Today there were:
Mallard - many
hybrid park ducks - several
hybrid park geese - several
Canada Goose - a few
American Wigeon - many
Gadwall - a couple
American Coot - many
White-crowned Sparrows - a small flock
California Towhee - about half a dozen
Song Sparrow - heard but not seen
Dark-eyed Junco
gull sp.
The best way to get to this is to park in the Hilltop Mall parking lot by Macy's, then cross the street and over a block to the entrance.
Tom Condit