[EBB Sightings] Eastshore State Park at high tide today

Birders:

I went to the Richmond section of the park this morning in hopes of 
finding a sharp-tailed sparrow, or possibly an unusual rail at high 
tide.  No luck with those dreams, but a couple of nice consolation 
birds were present: a male Eurasian Wigeon, and a Burrowing Owl.

I parked at the west end of South 51st Street in Richmond, walked west 
to the bay trail, and birded from there northward, almost to Meeker 
Slough.  The Eurasian Wigeon was with a flock of about 20 American 
Wigeons in the bay, several hundred yards north of where the bay trail 
crosses a slough.  The Burrowing Owl flushed from the bay side of the 
trail in about the same area.  This is probably a wintering bird; I 
flushed it (or perhaps it was a different individual) from the same 
area on November 1.

Good birding.

Dave Quady
Berkeley, California
davequady at att.net