[EBB Sightings] tufted duck and redhead at Lake Merritt

I was at L.Merritt & Merritt Channel Saturday afternoon, looking for
the various reported species.  Highlights are:

Channel
Hooded Merganser - 1 male
Tufted Duck - 1 male, very small tuft
Barrow's Goldeneye - 20
Common Goldeneye - 40
American Wigeon - 1 male
Not found - Hooded/Barrows hybrid

L.Merritt Channel corner
Barrow's Goldeneye - 3
Common Goldeneye - 6
Not found - Hooded/Barrows hybrid

Refuge area
Ring-necked Duck - 1 female
Red-breasted Merganser - pair
Western Grebe - 1
Common Goldeneye - 25

Parklands
Varied Thrush - 1
Black Phoebe - pair working on nest used last 2 years

Travis Hails

--- Glen Tepke  wrote:

> Interesting.  They were there Wednesday, Thursday and Friday.  Maybe
> the 
>   windy weather this morning cleared them out.
> 
> Glen Tepke
> Oakland
> 
> Bruce Mast wrote:
> 
> > I birded that whole channel this morning and found nothing.
> > 
> > Bruce Mast
> > Oakland, CA
> > 
> > -----Original Message-----
> > From: sightings-bounces at diabloaudubon.com
> > [mailto:sightings-bounces at diabloaudubon.com] On Behalf Of Glen
> Tepke
> > Sent: Saturday, February 17, 2007 2:44 PM
> > To: East Bay Birds
> > Subject: Re: [EBB Sightings] tufted duck and redhead at Lake
> Merritt
> > 
> > Several Barrow's Goldeneyes and one male Hooded Merganser have been
> in 
> > the channel immediately downstream from Lake Merritt (beteen 12th
> and 
> > 10th, next to the Kaiser Convention Center) and more Barrow's have
> been 
> > in the section between 10th and 7th, but I haven't seen the hybrid
> in a 
> > couple of searches this past week.
> > 
> > Glen Tepke
> > Oakland
> > g.tepke (at) comcast (dot) net
> > www.pbase.com/gtepke
> 
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