[EBB Sightings] Townsend's Solitaire at Jewel Lake

[EBB Sightings] Townsend's Solitaire at Jewel Lake

Jeff Hoppes
Sun Dec 07 16:50:40 PST 2008
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    This afternoon about 3 pm I found a Townsend's Solitaire in the thicket
    northwest of Jewel Lake in Tilden Park. Directions from the Jewel Lake
    dam: follow the trail west along the edge of the lake, then straight ahead
    into the thicket (instead of the wider trail south to join the Pack Rat
    loop back to the parking lot). You'll cross two moss-covered tree trunks,
    then the path will fork. Take the right-hand fork, and you'll soon
    overlook a small ravine. The big tree on the other side of the ravine,
    with no bark on most of the right-hand branches, is where the bird was
    sitting.
    
    A really terrible excuse for a record shot can be found here:
    http://www.flickr.com/photos/black_throated_green_warbler/3091277610/
    
     Good birding,
     Jeff Hoppes
     El Cerrito
    
    


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