[EBB Sightings] Eastshore Sunday

Hi all.
  Just a quick note. I biked through Berkeley Aquatic
Park and on up the Bay Trail past the Albany bulb (to
just short of Costco) on Sunday
  The algae is pretty bad/thick on the north pond  at 
Aquatic. Egrets were standing sentinal on them along
with a smaller bird that I think may have been a
female red-necked phalarope. She stood around and
pecked a while, then settled down for an apparent nap.
There were also mallards resting various places
  Up above the bulb there were, among others, stilts,
egrets--and, near Costco, a long-billed curlew
tromping around in the brush lots of peeps of various
sizes, a couple of willets. I was surprised to see a
fair number of black-bellied plover resting on a
gravel bar (?)--I'd only seen my first ever they day
before. After looking  at  Sibley, I'm wondering if I
might have also seen an American golden plover. If
anyone goes out that way, I'd be interested in what
they find.
Cheers,
Alan Howe
North Oakland

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