[EBB Sightings] Wildcat Canyon swim and bird adventure

I haven't been there in a while but I am pretty sure that dogs are not 
allowed to swim in Alameda Creek.
Michelle Brodie
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From: "judi sierra" 
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Sent: Wednesday, April 06, 2005 5:43 PM
Subject: [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
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