[EBB Sightings] Meeker Slough to Aquatic Park: Burrowing Owl, Cedar Waxwing, Am Pipit

Sunday, February 4, 2007, ESSP
Richmond to Aquatic Park on the SF Bay Trail, Bicycle Trip, Kathy
Jarrett
Trip Report: We started about 9:15 am at the S.51st Street entrance to
the trail in Richmond. We have usually started at Aquatic Park, so this
was a nice chance to be at Meeker Slough in the quiet time of the
morning, and we saw a Sora vanish into the reeds as a Great Egret
landed on the slough. There were great views of the Cedar Waxwings
foraging near the condo development, an American Pipit and a Burrowing
Owl on the recently reclaimed area just south of there, a male Belted
Kingfisher on the wire next to the bay at the Berkeley meadow area, Mew
Gulls in the bay near the Sea Breeze Market on University Ave., and the
Black-crowned Night Herons in their usual perch in the willows on the
south pond at Aquatic Park. We also saw lots of beautiful Green-winged
Teals and other wintering ducks. Nine of us enjoyed this lovely day.
Thanks to all the good spotters and to those who arrived without the
use of their cars! The ride from El Cerrito del Norte BART station is
quite easy; three of us did that, and another four arrived from the El
Cerrito Plaza station. 64 species seen.
Pied-billed Grebe
Eared Grebe
Western Grebe
Clark's Grebe
Double-crested Cormorant
Great Blue Heron
Great Egret
Snowy Egret
Black-crowned Night-Heron
Canada Goose
Green-winged Teal
Mallard
Northern Pintail
Northern Shoveler
Gadwall
American Wigeon
Canvasback
Greater Scaup
Lesser Scaup
Surf Scoter
Common Goldeneye
Bufflehead
Ruddy Duck
Northern Harrier
Red-tailed Hawk
American Kestrel
Sora
American Coot
Black-bellied Plover
Killdeer
Black-necked Stilt
American Avocet
Willet
Whimbrel
Long-billed Curlew
Marbled Godwit
Western Sandpiper
Least Sandpiper
Dunlin
Long-billed Dowitcher
Mew Gull
Ring-billed Gull
Western Gull
Rock Dove (I)
Mourning Dove
Burrowing Owl
Anna's Hummingbird
Belted Kingfisher
Black Phoebe
American Crow
Chestnut-backed Chickadee
Bushtit
American Pipit
European Starling (I)
Yellow-rumped Warbler
California Towhee
Song Sparrow
Golden-crowned Sparrow
White-crowned Sparrow
Red-winged Blackbird
Western Meadowlark
Brewer's Blackbird
House Finch
American Goldfinch


kathy jarrett
kathy_jarrett at yahoo.com


 
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