[EBB Sightings] Golden-crowned sparrows
[EBB Sightings] Golden-crowned sparrows
Lance Beeson
Thu Apr 21 12:37:00 PDT 2005
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I was struck by the diversity of habitat of this bird yesterday on two
separate viewings.
At mid-day, I checked up on what seems to be an ongoing habitat in a
stretch of rosemary and other shrubbery on Ptarmigan Drive in the very
settled Rossmoor neighborhood. Its a warm, protected spot. A month or
two ago, I watched them picking away at the purplish flowers of the
rosemary plants there.
Then last evening, I was atop the last northern hill of the San Pablo
Ridge, near the satellite-cable TV installation and EBMUD's Pearl
Reservoir (water tank). Way the heck up there, where the wind blows
24/365, a small group of these birds were clinging to a chaparral type
of bush (we call it greasewood but I don't know its real name),
apparently picking at buds or something. They were pretty bold about my
presence, only flying over to the next bush as I neared them for a
closer look. I wondered if they nest up there. A very adaptable bird,
like other sparrows, I guess.
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