[EBB Sightings] Burrowing Owl at MLK Shoreline

Good sighting! The last time I saw Burrowing Owl there was March 6, 2004.
I've looked a number of times since then without success. This is the first
report from Arrowhead Marsh since that date that I'm aware of.

Bruce Mast
Oakland, CA
510-435-1371
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Sent: Sunday, January 15, 2006 6:26 PM
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Subject: [EBB Sightings] Burrowing Owl at MLK Shoreline

The highlight of a day spent biking from Piedmont to Alameda and then down
the shoreline to Coyote Hills was a Burrowing Owl at Arrowhead Marsh.� It
flushed a few feet from where I was standing along the road by the southern
pond.� It landed on the dirt mound where it has been seen in prior years.
While seeming to stand high on its �toes� it then proceeded to give its
warning call and then bob its head vertically. ��Have Burrowing Owls been
missing from Arrowhead Marsh for over a year?

Other highlights:

Common Merganser on Lake Merritt
Osprey over Doolittle Drive near Arrowhead Marsh
American Pipits in a tree?? Yes, about 20 flushed from the ground at one of
the parking lots on Doolittle Drive across from Arrowhead Marsh and landed
in a tree.
Cackling Geese near Frank�s Dump
White Pelicans at Coyote Hills
Says Phoebe at Coyote Hills
Red Fox strolling through the picnic area at Coyote Hills, oblivious of the
people all around
Possible Juvenile Snow Goose on Alameda Creek; grey above, white below,
orange legs, white head and neck with some black streaking and dark beak.�
It might also be a hybrid Canada Goose in that it�s body shape and size was
very similar to the many Canadian Geese it was with.
Common Moorhen on Alameda Creek 

An interested stop I�ve made while biking near the Oakland Airport is a
small pond on Doolittle Drive a few hundred yards south of the road going
out to the airport.� It�s a reliable spot to see Cinnamon Teal and
Black-crowned Night Herons.


Derek Heins
Piedmont