[EBB Sightings] Female Wood Duck at Lake Merritt

And not just AT the lake - on the ground under a little tree, slumming 
with a bunch of mallards and sharing enough of their attitude that I 
could stand there for ten minutes, practically counting her beautiful 
bronze and blue and streaky feathers.... And she was still there 
nibbling leaves when I left, and there again taking a little snooze when 
I came by again fifteen minutes later.

Look for her under one of those twisty trees right at the lakeside, 
about halfway between the tot lot beside the nature center and that 
raised maze pattern in the lawn.

Meanwhile, what hangs out with House Sparrows, is a relatively even gray 
all over, and has a snow white cap from eye to eye and from beak to 
about eye level at the back of the head? And is maybe a little smaller 
than the rest of the flock? I never saw anything like it, and can't find 
it in the book - but it was flapping about on Perkins, just down from 
Palm Avenue, about fifteen minutes ago.
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