[EBB Sightings] It's that time!

[EBB Sightings] It's that time!

Phila Rogers
Sat Sep 15 15:50:17 PDT 2007
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    Dear Birders:
    
    The singular event of my birding year is here -- the annual watch for
    the arrival of the first Golden-crowned Sparrows.  No bird says 'fall'
    like the first sweet notes of the Golden-crowns.  I've been recording
    the arrival dates for twenty-five years.  Looking over my notes I see
    that the earliest arrival date was last year, on September 16.  The
    latest was October 2, 1999  Arrival may have been delayed by several
    very hot days prior to that date.  Most often the first sparrows show
    up sometime during the week of September 23. Observers in outer Marin,
    already may have sighted them. 
    
    My ritual is to walk out to the end of my block to the UC Berkeley open
    land where the grassy hill drops down steeply to the oaks and bays
    along the upper reaches of the stream canyon.  It's usually from the
    bushes and trees at that interface where the notes come drifting up to
    me.  Being the only person about at that early hour I can perform my
    celebratory stiff-legged jig unobserved.
    
    Phila Rogers
    
    
           
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