sandee@fsu.scri.fsu.edu (Daan Sandee) (05/30/90)
Date: Wed, 30 May 90 08:25:05 EDT
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From: "Norman C. Saunders" <NYS%NIHCU.BITNET@AVM.CC.FSU.EDU>
Subject: No. California, 5/29/90
To: Daan Sandee <sandee@VSSERV.SCRI.FSU.EDU>
Status: R
This is your Northern California weekly rare bird summary
for 10:28am, Tuesday, May 29, 1990, sponsored by Golden Gate
Audubon Society. You may download the text of this report from
the Winner's Circle Computer Bulletin Board at 845-4812. The
name of the file is RBA0529.TXT. This text is also now available
on Bitnet/Internet through BIRD_RBA, the National Birding Hotline
Cooperative on LISTSERV@ARIZVM1.
In Marin County, a singing male Indigo Bunting was found
along the Mewok Trail in the Marin Headlands near Rodeo Lagoon on
Saturday and it was still there yesterday. The easiest way to
get there is to park along the north side of Bunker Road about a
quarter mile east of Rodeo Lake. Take the trail across the
wooden foot bridge over the creek and follow the trail to the
right to the intersection with the Bobcat Trail. Continue on the
Mewok Trail to the north about a half mile to reach the area
where the Indigo Bunting was seen. Elsewhere in Marin County, a
singing male Tennessee Warbler was found yesterday in the
flowering hemlock across from the Nu$es Ranch at Pt. Reyes. This
is near mile post 42.68 on Sir Francis Drake Blvd. Also in Marin
County, the male Harlequin Duck was still at Bolinas Lagoon south
of Volunteer Canyon on Thursday. Two or three Purple Martins
continue to be seen daily near the mouth of Bolinas Lagoon and 4-
5 Purple Martins were along the fire road above Wimbleton Lane in
the Cannon Village of Fairfax last Wednesday. However, this is
an area where Purple Martins have been seen regularly in past
years.
In San Francisco, a Tennessee Warbler was found Sunday at
Lincoln Park along the trail between the 3rd and 4th fairway of
the golf course below El Camino Del Mar.
In Santa Clara County, a singing male Black-chinned Sparrow
was in the saddle area at the summit of Mt. Hamilton between the
fire lookout and the observatory on Friday.
For updates, please call 524-5592. Please keep us posted on
any rare birds you have seen or know about, especially the
continuing presence of rarities. At the sound of the tone, you
may leave your name and number and the date and location of any
rare birds you wish to report. Messages may be any length up to
five minutes, so you have plenty of time to leave good
directions. Thank you very much.