[EBB Sightings] Miscellaneous sightings

Hi, all.
  I was surprised to find a Townsend's warbler hopping
on the lawn on the south side of the Oakland Library's
main branch this afternoon.
  Also, this comes a bit late, but here are my
sightings on Monday at the Shoreline from the north
end of Edgewater down to the freshwater ponds south of
Arrowhead Marsh. It was low tide and I didn't see much
of anything in the marsh itself. Here they are in the
order seen:
Northern pintail
Mallard
American wigeon (lots)
Black-necked stilt
Northern shoveler
Cinnamon teal (1)
Ruddy duck
Least sandpiper
Yellow-rumped warbler (Audubon's)
Scaup--both varieties, I think
Bufflehead
Horned grebe
Common goldeneye
Canvasback
Black turnstone (quite a few quite close on the      
rocks below the trail on the east side of the bay)
Brown pelican
Lesser (?) yellowlegs 
White-crowned sparrow,
Killdeer, 
Golden-crowned sparrow
Anna's hummingbird
Snowy egret
European starling
Western meadowlark
Red-tailed hawk
Black phoebe
Canada goose
Cackling goose
Great blue heron
Great egret
Bushtit
Surf Scoter
Western grebe
Double-crested cormorant
Ring-billed gull (other gulls, too)
Marbled godwit
Various other peeps of various sizes.
  And to be really late, last Friday at Lake Merrit
some of the notables seen were:
Red-breasted sapsucker (across the drive from the
Garden Center, towards the bandstand)
Canada goose hybrid? near the geodesic dome cage
Ring-necked duck
Lesser scaup
Great scaup (?)
Canvasback
plus all the usual suspects, including the apparently
resident white pelican.
Cheers.
Alan Howe
North Oakland




 
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