[EBB Sightings] Female Wood Duck at Lake Merritt

The female Wood Duck was still present Thursday PM, on the lake.  She
was about 1/2 way between the Rotary Nature Center (Perkins & Bellevue)
and the Esplanade / Columns at the NE Corner.  She seemed to be eating
the algae off the stone wall of the lake.

Travis Hails

--- Hilary Powers  wrote:

> 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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