Bird Report from 2/10/2008
12 February 2008 - 08:15, Tinman said
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We mentioned previously the amazing bird habitat that was going to be impacted — but will not be if we stay on top of this — by the SFPUC pipeline retrofit. Here is a grand description of why we must preserve this part of Mt D: the most recent sightings report by one of the experienced birders who patrols Mt D regularly. This report was initially posted Sunday 2/10 to the sfbirds Yahoo group.
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The highlights were:
- Band-tailed Pigeon (single bird seen flying north)
- Orange-crowned Warbler (foraging in the iris and broom patch approx. fifty feet after the end of the trail fence, very plain gray with hint of brown to upperparts, celata?)
Other birds of local interest:
- Lesser Goldfinches (m,f)
- American Kestrel (molting male, missing several rectrices on right side of tail, observed capturing and eating a dragonfly)
- White-crowned Sparrows (at least four males singing on territory in the grassland area)
- Winter Wrens (several singing males heard from path before the X in trail)
- Song Sparrows (singing)
- Bushtits (pairing off?, only three or four seen with lots of chasing)
- Northern Mockingbirds (at least two, one of which was doing very realistic impressions of a gnatcatcher’s “mew” call and House Wren scolds)
- Hermit Thrushes (at least two heard)
- House Finch (singing)
- Dark-eyed Juncos (m,f)
- Pygmy Nuthatches (at least two “packs” heard high up in eucs)
- Chestnut-backed Chickadees (several heard only)
- Anna’s Hummingbirds (three males seen)
Also appearing:
- Western Scrub Jay
- Common Raven
- Mourning Dove
- Ruby-crowned Kinglet
Also observed was a hummingbird chase that may have been an Anna’s chasing a Selasphorus sp. but they disappeared before I could get on the smaller one. I also found it strange to not hear a single Yellow-rumped Warbler in the 20 minutes I was there (departing early?).
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