[EBB Sightings] Hayward Shoreline. Red Knots & Red-necked Phalaropes

It was a beautiful, sunshiny day at the Hayward Shoreline this morning. A few 
friends and I spent a couple of hours birding at the end of Winton Avenue.  A 
COOPER'S HAWK flew over the parking lot as we drove in, and as we walked to 
the Bay, a juvenile NORTHERN HARRIER flew across the trail and ANNA'S 
HUMMINGBIRD and AMERICAN GOLDFINCHES perched to give us views..  We turned right at the 
Bay, eventually ending up at Frank's Dump, where a host of shorebirds were 
congregating as the tide rose steadily higher.  We had 32 species in all, most 
notably over 200 RED KNOTS and a dozen or so RED-NECKED PHALAROPES.  A 
beautiful group of 10 AMERICAN WHITE PELICANS flew overhead.  Quite a few 
BLACK-BELLIED PLOVERS were in still in alternate plumage, a lovely sight to behold.  There 
were many SEMI-PALMATED PLOVERS, AMERICAN AVOCETS and a few BLACK-NECKED 
STILTS.  

Marilyn Trabert
Walnut Creek