[EBB Sightings] Berkeley Shores

Happy Labor Day, all.
  I rode my bike down to Berkeley Aquatic Park, EB
Shoreline State Park, etc, for the first time in quite
a while. It was pretty quiet with mostly the usual
suspects.
  Aquatic Park: 
     Calif towhee
     pied-gilled grebes a plenty
     Forster's terns fishing
     double-crested cormorants
     egrets--great and snowy
     black-crowned night heron
     lots of mallards
  EB St Pk--newly restored area:
     (Looks like they'll be opening some kind of
nature/viewing trail across the southern section
soon.)
     northern harrier
     lots of sparrows and such out of id range
  Cesar Chavez Park:
     lone juvenile d-c cormorant
     lone scoter--probably surf female or juvenile
     purple finch (I think)
     various sparrows
  Creek outflow behind the Seabreeze:
     willet
     long-billed dowitcher (?)
     killdeer
     red-necked phalarope
  Everywhere:
     crows
     gulls (I'm still working on trying to distinguish
the various types--probably will be for a very long
time)

  My two cents about the blue bird at Arrowhead: from
the description, the color sounds to me to be too dark
for indigo bunting.
  Also, somewhat off-target for this group, I'm
curious about how a hurricane like Katrina affects
swamp and shore bird populations. Does anyone know
about this? Certainly the human tragedy is foremost on
our minds, but I do wonder about the fallout for
birds. I'm sure they've been affected by the levees
and loss of wetlands over the decades.
Cheers,
Alan


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