Bird notes, v4397
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Oct.2. Cooler. N.W. breeze. Beautiful after rain. Thasher singing. Rain in afternoon. Oct.3. Allen Hummer Group went to Edsonance Park. Beautiful after rain. Per.Bes: Dried, Picker Caly & Coast Jay, Titmouse, Bush Tits, Wrait (singing) Robin Vigoro Wren, Lug Sparrow, Calif. Purple Finch, Shrew, B.Goldfinch, Pine Siskin, Spotted & Brown Towhee, Song Sparrow. Summer visitors (migrating through) Western Flycatcher, Flycatcher(sp.?)- soft gray, no eye ring, light bars in wing (no median line). Pileated Warbler. Winter Visitors; Towhead Warbler (small groups) came without Black Throat), A Fugit S.S. Sparrow, Taubel Sparrow (2 seen in Lebmann Garden) Total 25 sp. Not seen or heard: Russet d. Thrush, Hermit Thrush, R.C Kinglet, Fox Sparrow, G.c. Sparrow. On the afternoons I heard G.c. Sparrows singing in Strawberry Canyon. Mrs.Thompson who lives in North Berkeley (Cragmont) said she saw both: Fox Sp.+ Gc. Sparrow three days ago. Oct.7. Dumbarton Bridge: While Pelicans 600t, Egrets ? (no stop), Willets and Bb. Clover, Bundled on a dyke 300t; N. Phalaropes 400t; Pintail Ducks 50t, some full plumage (not eclipse); Sandpipers mainly Least.- increasing but no large flocks; Eared Grebes 200t, very near the roadway in the last pool to north before reaching the bridge. Among the first ones seen was the albino seen first July 29 and again on Aug.7. This time