Black Diamond Mines May 2010
Took another trip out to Antioch and Black Diamond Mines. I really do like this place and should probably make more of an effort to go there more regularly. There's a wide variety of trails, so you can find something new each time you go. It was also very pleasing on the bird front again, the start of the show being a blue-gray gnatcatcher. I saw this little thing jumping around and managed to get one picture of it. I thought it was a wren due to it's small size, but a quick consult with the book revealed that it's a gnatcather. I guess gnats are not very big, so the bird doesn't need to be very big either. Anyway, pictured:
- American Goldfinch
- Berwick's Wren
- Blue-Gray Gnatcather
- Black Phoebe
- Brown Headed Cowbird
- Cooper's Hawk
- European Starling
- House Wren
- Lesser Goldfinch
- Western Bluebird
- White-Breasted Nuthatch
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