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Message: <blockquote data-quote="rkj" data-source="post: 3320641" data-attributes="member: 119642"><p>Well this is fun. I have no answers, but a few observations:  if the white patch on the secondaries is real, it seems odd that it occurs on one wing but not the other of at least some of the birds. A few solitary Snow Buntings have been seen in California this fall, but there are no eBird records of a flock this size anywhere in California ever. Clark's Nutcrackers do occur in numbers, but I doubt there have ever been this many together within about 100 miles of Orinda. If this photo shows either of those species it is an extraordinary record.</p></blockquote><p></p>