[EBB Sightings] Lake Merritt

John H Maurer wrote:

> Jean & I walked around Lake Merritt this afternoon. Saw 23 species, 
> mostly the ususal suspects. The eared and horned grebes are going into 
> transition to summer plumage, and a couple of eared grebes are almost 
> there.

I noticed that last Saturday, then forgot to post. It's really, really 
early for the grebes to start turning.

> The big deal for us was a red-breasted merganser. Totally unexpected 
> there, although we have been seeing a few at Berkeley's Aquatic Park.

Grin - mergansers at Lake Merritt are like rain in July or August. (It 
almost always rains sometime in the summer, at which point everyone 
says, "But it NEVER rains at this time of year!") From November through 
about May, you're likely to see one or two - usually hanging out well in 
the middle of the lake where they're hard to spot. We picked up this boy 
- or at any rate, A red-breasted merganser - on the January and February 
4th-Wednesday GGAS trips, and I've every hope of seeing him next week, too.

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