[SBB] Golden Eagle in suburban Sunnyvale

[[[email protected]] (Bill Maney)]

Not sure if this is noteworthy...
This afternoon 2pm there was what I believe to be a Golden Eagle soaring
over Sunnyvale above the pedestrian bridge over 101 just south of Fair
Oaks.  
It was big and very dark with white splotches in the middle of the
wings.  These were not single white patches but a bunch of white in the
usual place for a juvenile but also toward the body.  The tail had two
white bands broken more splotches.  The head was, well, golden.  
I saw a similar bird on 12/07/04 in the same spot.  That bird had more
white on the wing patch that continued out to the trailing edge at it's
farthest point.  I wrote this bird off as just passing through.  I had
second thoughts when I saw it two days later over the sunnyvale
library.  I like to think this is the same bird.  
Bill Maney



[[email protected]] wrote:
> 
> All:
> 
> This morning, Monday March 8, at about 9 AM I finally got good looks at the
> elusive Northern Waterthrush at the Charleston Road Marsh.  I was at the last
> pine just upstream of the Pump House looking at a hummingbird nest that Jack
> Cole possibly described, when I heard this sharp chip.  I immediately froze, and
> the chipping continued.  Then the waterthrush came right by me doing
> waterthrush-like chipping and feeding on the drowned reeds in the water.  A bit later
> it flew up into the trees, but remained in good view where it continued
> chipping.  Then a male American Goldfinch made a swipe at it and the bird promptly
> disappeared.
> 
> For a while there was a lot of exuberant song: American Goldfinch, Lesser
> Goldfinch, Pine Siskin, Bewick’s Wren, Common Yellowthroat, Gold-crowned
> Sparrows, Ruby-crowned Kinglet, Song Sparrow, Dark-eyed Junco, House Finch, and
> Red-winged Blackbird.
> 
> Frank Vanslager
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