[EBB Sightings] Wildcat Canyon swim and bird adventure

Since Shasta didn't get a promised swim at Sunol  last week ( Alameda Creek 
was too swift!) we headed for Wildcat  Canyon in Richmond today. On the 
trail up to the Sanitorium site we saw YELLOW RUMPED WARBLERS, many 
Audubon's and one male Myrtle in summer plumage. At the site, Shasta 
disappeared into the creek and I  stood in one spot near the bare walnut 
trees and the palms  and watched a pair of HOODED ORIOLES chasing a pair of 
WESTERN BLUEBIRDS out of the palm closest to the  main trail. (They may be 
nesting there. I couldn't tell.) There was also a pair NUTTAL"S Woodpeckers 
"doin' it" on the snag , a pair of HOUSE WRENS and  in the singles club, a 
RED BREASTED NUTHATCH. After Shasta dried herself off in the mud we headed 
back down and saw an ORANGE CROWNED WARBLER and a BEWICK'S WREN taking a 
dust bath on the trail. While I was looking at  a PACIFIC SLOPED FLYCATCHER 
and some RUBY CROWNED KINGLETS. Shasta snuck off into the stream again and 
rinsed off the mud. With a clean dog in tow we stopped at the parking lot to 
view many Wilson's Warblers.
Judi Sierra- Oakland