[EBB Sightings] Pine Siskins in Berkeley

[EBB Sightings] Pine Siskins in Berkeley

Judith Dunham
Wed Oct 27 17:15:03 PDT 2004
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    Hi Everyone,
    
    Reading the reports of backyard Pine Siskins over the past few days made
    me desperately jealous. In the ten years we've lived south of campus in
    Berkeley (between Shattuck and Telegraph, Dwight and Ashby), we have
    never seen siskins in the yard. I decided that if this was possibly an
    irruption year, our time may have come.
    
    And indeed it did this afternoon, when three Pine Siskins plastered
    themselves onto the thistle sock, sharing the seed with two American
    Goldfinches and one Lesser Goldfinch.
    
    Also showing up today were the season's first Townsend's Warbler and
    first Yellow-rumped Warbler. A Fox Sparrow joined the gathering of
    White-crowned and Golden-crowned Sparrows.
    
    Good birding,
    
    Judith Dunham
    
    
    


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