[EBB Sightings] Aquatic Park in Berkeley

Most days I walk from my home in Emeryville all the way around Aquatic 
Park, then back home. I carry weights in my hands, so I don't carry 
binoculars. But I do count the bird species I see. Today I saw 28! Two 
were while I was still in Emeryville; the lawn geese on the football 
field at Emery High and a male Anna's Hummingbird at 53rd & Hollis.

Only one more bird gets specific comment. There was a Norther Harrier at 
Aquatic Park! The only time in many years of walking there that I have 
seen a swamp hawk there, although they can be expected at several other 
locations in the east bay.

Let's see if I can remember all 25 others:

Pelican
Double Crested Cormorant
Yellow Rumped Warbler
Great Egret
Snowy Egret
Black Crowned Night Heron
Green Heron
American Coot
Bufflehead
Common Goldeneye
California Towhee
Red Breasted Merganser (but no Hooded Mergansers yet)
Mallard
Crow
American Avocet
Black Necked Stilt
Dunlin
Peeps (no binoculars, remember?)
California Gull -- There were several other kinds of Gulls, but no
                    binoculars.
Foerster's Tern
Pied Billed Grebe
Black Phoebe
Kingfisher
Willet
Hmph. Can't remember the last one. But I did count up to 28.