[EBB Sightings] Alameda Creek to Coyote Hills-Green-winged Teals and more-03-31-2007

GGAS Bicycle Birding Trip: Fremont BART to Coyote Hills on the Alameda
Creek Trail
Saturday, March 31, 2007, Leader: Kathy Jarrett
The day started with the Osprey sitting on the snag overlooking the
Tule Pond in the back of the BART station. There were also Ruddy Ducks
and Northern Shovelers on the pond. A few blocks away we accessed the
Alameda Creek Trail which we rode all the way to Coyote Hills. Eleven
of us enjoyed this beautiful day, and five of them used BART to get to
Fremont. During the ride downstream we saw Gadwall, Green-winged Teal,
Killdeer, Greater Yellowlegs and Black-necked Stilts. The Mallards and
Canada Geese are paired off, no longer in big flocks. We saw a turkey
crossing the old RR bridge west of the freeway. It looked as if it
might be a domestic turkey which had escaped from Ardenwood. As we
neared Coyote Hills we saw White-Tailed Kites, Northern Harriers and
Cinnamon Teal. There are still a considerable number of ducks on the
creek and the marsh. Returning through the D.U.S.T. marsh we saw Tree
Swallows; upstream near the freeway we saw Cliff Swallows, and near
Quarry Lakes a Common Merganser.

56 Species:
Pied-billed Grebe
Western Grebe
Double-crested Cormorant
Great Blue Heron
Great Egret
Snowy Egret
Black-crowned Night-Heron
Canada Goose
Green-winged Teal
Mallard
Northern Pintail
Cinnamon Teal
Northern Shoveler
Gadwall
American Wigeon
Greater Scaup
Bufflehead
Common Merganser
Ruddy Duck
Turkey Vulture
Osprey
White-tailed Kite
Northern Harrier
Cooper's Hawk
Red-tailed Hawk
Wild Turkey (I)-or was it a domestic turkey near Ardenwood?
American Coot
Killdeer
Black-necked Stilt
Greater Yellowlegs
Long-billed Curlew
Rock Dove (I)
Mourning Dove
Anna's Hummingbird
Northern Flicker, red-shafted
Black Phoebe
Tree Swallow
Cliff Swallow
Western Scrub-Jay
American Crow
Marsh Wren
Hermit Thrush
American Robin
Northern Mockingbird
Cedar Waxwing
European Starling (I)
Yellow-rumped Warbler
Song Sparrow
White-crowned Sparrow
Red-winged Blackbird
House Finch
American Goldfinch
House Sparrow (I)
Gull sp.
Ring-necked Pheasant (I) - heard
Golden-crowned Sparrow - heard


kathy jarrett
kathy_jarrett at yahoo.com


 
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