eruther
Oct 22, 2013
Hiller Highlands Oakland
Stationary
0 miles
1 Minutes
Observers: 2
All birds reported? Yes
Comments:
Submitted from BirdLog NA for iOS, version 1.5.3
2 American Goldfinch — New yard bird. Two stopped by to feed this morning.

eruther
Oct 21, 2013
Claremont Canyon Regional Preserve
Traveling
3 miles
127 Minutes
Observers: 2
All birds reported? Yes
Comments:
Submitted from BirdLog NA for iOS, version 1.5.3
1 Accipiter sp. — Flying SE to NW over Ridge trail
10 Mourning Dove
7 Anna’s Hummingbird
2 Hairy Woodpecker
3 Northern Flicker
1 Black Phoebe
1 Hutton’s Vireo
7 Steller’s Jay
11 Western Scrub-Jay
2 Common Raven
15 Chestnut-backed Chickadee
2 Oak Titmouse
11 Bushtit
1 Red-breasted Nuthatch
5 Pygmy Nuthatch
5 Brown Creeper
9 Bewick’s Wren
1 Golden-crowned Kinglet
8 Ruby-crowned Kinglet
5 Wrentit
4 Hermit Thrush
2 American Robin
1 California Thrasher
3 Townsend’s Warbler
7 Spotted Towhee
6 California Towhee
2 Fox Sparrow (Sooty)
7 Song Sparrow
5 White-crowned Sparrow
30 Golden-crowned Sparrow
30 Dark-eyed Junco (Oregon)

eruther
Oct 20, 2013
Las Gallinas Valley Sanitary District
Traveling
0.5 miles
97 Minutes
Observers: 2
All birds reported? Yes
Comments:
Submitted from BirdLog NA for iOS, version 1.5.3
20 Canada Goose
2 Mute Swan
X Gadwall
1 Eurasian Wigeon
X American Wigeon
X Mallard
6 Cinnamon Teal
X Northern Shoveler
2 Northern Pintail
1 Green-winged Teal
3 Redhead — 1 male with 2 female
X Ruddy Duck
1 Pied-billed Grebe
1 Horned Grebe
1 Eared Grebe
1 Double-crested Cormorant
12 American White Pelican
5 Snowy Egret
1 Black-crowned Night-Heron
2 White-tailed Kite
1 Northern Harrier
1 Merlin
X American Coot
7 Killdeer
1 gull sp.
2 Acorn Woodpecker — En route to treatment plant
2 Black Phoebe
1 Say’s Phoebe
2 American Crow
X Marsh Wren
X European Starling
1 Yellow Warbler
6 Yellow-rumped Warbler
1 Savannah Sparrow
1 Song Sparrow
X Red-winged Blackbird
1 House Finch

eruther

Oct 19, 2013

Wilderness Park–Pioneers Blvd north
Traveling
1.5 miles
145 Minutes
Observers: 1
All birds reported? Yes
Comments:
Submitted from BirdLog NA for iOS, version 1.5.3
7 Wild Turkey
300 Franklin’s Gull
3 Mourning Dove
2 Downy Woodpecker
1 Hairy Woodpecker
6 Northern Flicker
1 Northern Flicker (Yellow-shafted)
5 Blue Jay
35 Black-capped Chickadee
6 White-breasted Nuthatch
1 American Robin
25 Yellow-rumped Warbler
3 White-throated Sparrow
1 Northern Cardinal
3 House Finch

eruther
Oct 17, 2013
Pioneers Park
Traveling
0.7 miles
45 Minutes
Observers: 1
All birds reported? Yes
Comments:
Submitted from BirdLog NA for iOS, version 1.5.3
X Canada Goose
3 Mallard
1 Pied-billed Grebe
X European Starling
1 Chipping Sparrow
1 Fox Sparrow (Red)
1 Song Sparrow
3 Harris’s Sparrow

Shari

eruther
Oct 16, 2013
Pfizer Saline Wetlands
Traveling
0.7 miles
62 Minutes
Observers: 2
All birds reported? Yes
Comments:
Submitted from BirdLog NA for iOS, version 1.5.3
X Canada Goose
X Franklin’s Gull
X European Starling
1 Spotted Towhee
1 Chipping Sparrow — Perhaps 3 in bushes along concrete drainage near parking entrance. Flew to nearby trees.
2 Le Conte’s Sparrow
1 Harris’s Sparrow
20 Red-winged Blackbird
1 American Goldfinch

Watching HEWA listening toFXSP
Memo.m4a

Franklin’s and Ring-billed Gulls

eruther
Oct 14, 2013
Oak Lake Park
Stationary
0 miles
45 Minutes
Observers: 1
All birds reported? Yes
Comments:
Submitted from BirdLog NA for iOS, version 1.5.3
X Canada Goose
X Mallard
1 Great Blue Heron
X Franklin’s Gull — Hundreds on lawn (along with Ring-billed Gulls) with many thousands streaming in beyond. Amazing. X Ring-billed Gull
X European Starling

Letter Trail

Oct 13, 2013
Sign Hill – followed route from this blog, Ridge trail to Letters trail to Seubert trail.  Vast majority of species and birds were at the top of the first incline from parking lot, in the grove of pine facing south.  0.1 mile.  Why did I go any further?  The letters are concrete slabs painted white.

Overhead, the GEICO Skytypers typed messages I mostly missed except for this partial message:

GEICO Skytypers

Traveling
2 miles
2 hours?
Observers: 1
All birds reported? Yes

Comments: Black squirrel (melanistic) eastern gray squirrel
1 Turkey Vulture
1 Osprey
1 Red-tailed Hawk
1 American Kestrel
1 Rock Pigeon
1 Mourning Dove
1 White-throated Swift
1 Anna’s Hummingbird
1 Acorn Woodpecker
1 Red-breasted Sapsucker
1 Nuttall’s Woodpecker
1 Downy Woodpecker
1 Northern Flicker
1 Black Phoebe
1 Western Scrub-Jay
1 Common Raven
1 Chestnut-backed Chickadee
1 Bushtit
1 Pygmy Nuthatch
1 Brown Creeper
1 Bewick’s Wren
1 Ruby-crowned Kinglet
1 Northern Mockingbird
1 Yellow Warbler
1 Yellow-rumped Warbler (Audubon’s)
1 Townsend’s Warbler
1 Spotted Towhee
1 California Towhee
1 Golden-crowned Sparrow
1 Dark-eyed Junco
1 American Goldfinch