[EBB Sightings] Aquatic Park in Berkeley

Nice report.  I am at Aquatic Park frequently and have seen almost all except the Northern Harrier.  Never seen one there
before.  Can you provide any more details on the location?  Not to question your expertise, but is there any possibility it was a
Cooper's Hawk? Maybe no one else does, but I have on occasion  mixed up the two.

John H Maurer wrote:

> 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.
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