[EBB Sightings] Marsh Mayhem

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Greetings, to all,
    Yesterday's short stroll around the Hayward Area Recreation Department's visitor center on the Hayward Shoreline (Breakwater Avenue near the San Mateo Bridge toll plaza) yielded graphic looks at a great-tailed grackle harvesting swallow nestlings from the barn and/or cliff swallow nests under the visitor center.  The grackle made repeated trips into the nest area, as if he was feeding his own young.  Mud-gathering by a number of cliff swallows was also readily visible.  Shorebirds were scarce, but without reaching the bay shore we saw long-billed curlews, American Avocets, Black-necked stilts, willets (some apparently juveniles), a number of Forster's terns, a single California gull, singing savannah sparrows, a fly-over black-crowned night-heron juvenile and a minus-tide trapped leopard shark. 


Terry Coddington
tlcodd at earthlink.net
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