[EBB Sightings] Rails and more at Oakland's Arrowhead Marsh today

Birders:

Between about noon and one p.m. today the still-fairly-high tide pushed 
at least three Soras, a dozen Clapper Rails, and a Virginia Rail into 
view beneath, near and beyond the boardwalk/pier.  The Nelson's 
Sharp-tailed Sparrow is still present; it perched in good view on its 
usual island a couple of times for a few minutes each time.

While all this was nice, I was more interested to discover a 
Red-throated Loon floating in the mitigation marsh, quite close to the 
entrance road near the parking lot at the end of the road.  The bird 
seemed quite content, and not at all bothered by the fact that it 
couldn't have had more than about a foot of water beneath it.  Strange.

Dave Quady
Berkeley, California
davequady at att.net