[EBB Sightings] ID help needed - Lake Merritt and Coyote Hills

Went to Lake Merritt early this afternoon in
horrendous lighting and then went to Coyote Hills in
moderately better lighting.  At Lake Merritt, aside
from the usual suspects, I saw several groups of
COMMON GOLDENEYES as well as EARED (I think) GREBES. 
If you go to http://www.pbase.com/zeiler/new the first
five photos are from Lake Merritt.  I had trouble
ID'ing a few.  The first one was associating
(seemingly) with the Goldeneyes, but it looked
different from what I saw and what's in Sibley.

The last three photos are from Coyote Hills.  I'm
having trouble ID'ing the large raptor.  Looks like a
dark morph of something.  Aside from those, I didn't
see anything unusual.  The female HARRIER was doing
her rounds.  I saw four KITES, one GREAT BLUE HERON,
two SNOWY EGRETS, three GREAT EGRETS, one MOORHEN,
several PIED-BILLED and EARED GREBES, and of course
countless mallards, gulls, geese, and coots.

Finally, I'm really digging these interesting duck
types... if anybody knows of a great spot closer to
Dublin for goldeneyes, mergansers, grebes, etc.,
please let me know!

Thanks for any ID help.

Brian
Dublin CA


		
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