[EBB Sightings] Grasshopper sparrows & other birds at Briones
[EBB Sightings] Grasshopper sparrows & other birds at Briones
Jim Scarff
Fri May 25 17:08:44 PDT 2007
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Following up on Bob Brandiff's post on Tuesday, I went out to Briones this
morning from around 8:30-11:30 and hiked UP the Briones Crest trail, then
back down the Santos and Abrigo Valley trails.
I heard 3-4 grasshopper sparrows on the Briones Crest trail, and was even
lucky enough to get a photo of one
(http://www.flickr.com/photos/36424218 at N00/514024249/), and then I heard
several more on the Santos Trail. The lower Santos Trail was very birdy.
A list of the birds I saw this morning (partial because of my very limited
ability to recognize bird songs) includes:
Red-shouldered hawk
Red-tailed hawk
Coopers hawk
Turkey vulture
Raven
Violet-green swallow
Nuttall's woodpecker (h)
Black phoebe
Say's phoebe
Western kingbird
Ash-throated flycatcher
Western bluebird
Chesnut-backed chickadee
Oak Titmouse
American robin (on nest)
House wren
Warbling vireo
Cassin's vireo
California towhee
Spotted towhee
Grasshopper sparrow
Lark sparrow
Chipping sparrow
Dark-eyed junco
Lesser goldfinch
Lazuli bunting
Horned lark
Western meadowlark
Red-winged blackbirds
Bullock's oriole
Starlings
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