[EBB Sightings] Contra Costa

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> From: S Galloway 
> Date: Tue Aug 9, 2005  3:41:23 PM US/Pacific
> To: 
> Subject: Contra Costa
> Seen at lower  Limeridge Open Space
> 3 ways to get there
> 1) Parking Lot between Navaronne and Cowell Bvd, off Treat, Concord
> 2) Anal Trail off Treat at San Miguel Rd.
> 3) (this is the best): End of Via Montanas Rd.:  From 680 take Treat, 
> turn
> left onto San Miguel (after Oak Grove Rd., before CC Canal) follow 
> along
> Pine Creek till road turns left - Via Montanas is on the right. Follow 
> up
> hill, across canal trail to "turn around'"end of block, at base of
> LimeRidge.
> Seen last two days (Aug. 7 & 8), about 6 pm:
> 1 ) 1 pr. SHARP-SHINNED HAWKS  - i finally narrowed this down between
> Coopers and Merlins   - but anyone who's in the area is most welcomed 
> to
> 'confirm'!
> 2) Altho' they're flying all over the area from Treat to Cowell, there 
> are
> also  5-7 BLACK SHOULDERED KITES, in oaks across from the parking area 
> on
> Via Montanas,  down from the pair of trees at the top of Dinosaur Hill
> that's it for now, except for the brood of RING-NECKED PHEASANTS  seen 
> last
> week, oh, also  apparently HOODED ORIOLES abandoned three (3) nests - 
> seen
> in the landmark eucalyptus tree up the trail - the nests really look 
> heavy -
> I kept expecting to see fledglings at the end of July, but nothings
> happening and the adults are gone! (Maybe they should have stuck to
> Washingtonia palms!?)
> Sharyn G.