[EBB Sightings] Hayward Shoreline: The Shorebirds are back

San Leandro to Hayward on the SF Bay Trail Bicycle Trip
  Alameda County
  Saturday, July 15
  Leader: Kathy Jarrett
  Trip Report
  It was beautiful and birdy day. Biking from the San Leandro BART station, which most did, and the SF Bay Trail from San Leandro to the Hayward Shoreline Interpretive Center and back was 21.5 miles, and the shoreline trip alone was15 miles. The tide was out for much of the trip, only coming back in after lunch. We found many shorebirds back from their breeding grounds in the far north, and baby and adult Black-Necked Stilts as well as many American Avocets. There were lots of Semipalmated Plovers and Western Sandpipers and a few Least Sandpipers. Cliff Swallows mobbed the roof of the Interpretive Center as we shared lunch and conversation before braving the wind back to the trailhead. 
  44 species seen:
  Brown Pelican
  Double-crested Cormorant
  Great Blue Heron
  Great Egret
  Snowy Egret
  Canada Goose
  Mallard
  Gadwall
  Greater Scaup
  Turkey Vulture
  White-tailed Kite
  Clapper Rail (heard)
  Common Moorhen
  Black-bellied Plover
  Semipalmated Plover
  Killdeer
  Black-necked Stilt
  American Avocet
  Greater Yellowlegs
  Willet
  Whimbrel
  Long-billed Curlew
  Marbled Godwit
  Western Sandpiper
  Least Sandpiper
  Dunlin
  Ring-billed Gull
  Western Gull
  Forster's Tern
  Rock Pigeon (I)
  Mourning Dove
  Anna's Hummingbird
  Black Phoebe
  Cliff Swallow
  Barn Swallow
  Bushtit
  Marsh Wren (heard)
  European Starling (I)
  California Towhee
  Song Sparrow
  Red-winged Blackbird
  House Finch
  American Goldfinch
  House Sparrow (I)


kathy jarrett
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