[EBB Sightings] Blue Grosbeak
[EBB Sightings] Blue Grosbeak
William Clark
Tue Apr 19 09:09:00 PDT 2005
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He's Back!
Sunday morning (4/17) I spotted a male BLUE GROSBEAK at milepost 6.21 on
Patterson Pass Rd, Livermore.
My thanks to Rich Cimino and others for their directions to this birdy
location. Based on their messages last year, this seemed the day to
go birding. I arrived at 7:25am, but, with no sunlight yet, was
soon driven back to my car to warm up. The wind was
blowing! By 7:50 the sun had peeked out, and the birds were
waking. I spotted him on a tree directly opposite the
pull-out. He stayed put several minutes and then flew down
stream. Other birds at milepost 6.21:
Hundreds of WHITE-THROATED SWIFTS are nesting at Owl Rocks on the south
side of Corral Hollow Rd, just east of Livermore Lab's site 300.
(Take Tesla Rd east from Livermore, or Corral Hollow Rd west from
I580).
CEDAR WAXWINGS are in the Eucalyptus trees at Lawrence Livermore Lab this
morning.
Clark