At 12:55 AM -0400 7/20/01, Birding4Brad at aol.com wrote:
>The
>closest spot from San Fransico is Sunol Regional Wilderness park above
>Livermore or in the Tracy, Modesto, Stockton area in any of the side roads
>thru the farm areas will produce many yellow and black billed magpies.
>Good Birding Brad Wilson birding4brad at aol.com

A minor correction: the California central valley does not contain
"many" black-billed magpies. I lived in the central valley for over
forty years, and I never saw a black-billed magpie. They are not
unknown west of the Sierras, just very rare.

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Rob Saecker
Olympia
rsaecker at thurston.com