[EBB Sightings] Sat Jul 29-Fremont-bicycle birding

GGAS Bicycle Trip Quarry Lakes/Alameda Creek/Coyote Hills 
Alameda County
Saturday, July 29, 2006
Leader: Kathy Jarrett
Trip Report:
11 of us met at the Fremont BART station at 8 am and after a brief look
at the Tule Pond we headed over to the Alameda Creek Trail. Greater
Yellowlegs and Black-necked Stilts were at the BART weir. We made a
circuit of Willow Slough and rode by the west side of Lago Los Osos. We
saw baby Western Grebes in the water as well as a nest with four eggs,
presumably a Western Grebe?s, and also a pair of Coots with an egg.
There were lots of Anna?s Hummingbirds and an immature Black-Crowned
Night Heron on Willow Slough. On the Alameda Creek Trail again, we saw
an immature Green Heron, Common Moorhens, and all the birds one usually
sees in the creek: Mallards, Canada Geese, Snowy and Great Egrets and
an occasional Great Blue Heron as well as Black Phoebes and Pie-billed
Grebes. As we neared Coyote Hills we saw a group of about 75 White
Pelicans. Riding through the marsh on the DUST and Cochenyo Trails
toward the visitor center, we encountered a group of Black-necked
Stilts and Long-billed Dowitchers. From the Bayview Trail we saw
Avocets and Red-necked Phalaropes in the Salt Ponds. The Western/Least
Sandpipers were abundant but too far away to call. We also saw a
Kestrel and N. Harrier at Coyote Hills. It was a really beautiful day
on the trail, warm and sunny. We added the House Sparrow at the Fremont
BART station. Approximately 22 miles and 46 species.
Pied-billed Grebe
Western Grebe
American White Pelican
Double-crested Cormorant
Great Blue Heron
Great Egret
Snowy Egret
Green Heron
Black-crowned Night-Heron
Canada Goose
Mallard
Turkey Vulture
Northern Harrier
Cooper's Hawk
American Kestrel
Common Moorhen
American Coot
Killdeer
Black-necked Stilt
American Avocet
Greater Yellowlegs
Willet
Western/Least Sandpiper
Long-billed Dowitcher
Red-necked Phalarope
Ring-billed Gull
Caspian Tern
Forster's Tern
Rock Pigeon (I)
Mourning Dove
Anna's Hummingbird
Belted Kingfisher
Black Phoebe
Cliff Swallow
Barn Swallow
Western Scrub-Jay
American Crow
Northern Mockingbird
European Starling (I)
California Towhee
Song Sparrow
Red-winged Blackbird
Brewer's Blackbird
House Finch
American Goldfinch
House Sparrow (I)


kathy jarrett
kathy_jarrett at yahoo.com

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