[EBB Sightings] GGAS field trip to Point Pinole

This morning 12 of us participated in a GGAS field trip to Point Pinole,
under overcast skies.  The tide was a ways out, so shorebirds were
difficult, but there were hundreds feeding along the water's edge.  Notable
was an immature Bald Eagle zooming over the Bayfront Trail.  The lack of sun
was compensated for by the bright orange of Allen's Hummingbirds and
Bullock's Orioles.  The list follows; * were seen by the leader only before
the trip started:

2 Canada Goose
2 Mallard
200 Greater Scaup
2 Common Goldeneye
1 Clark's Grebe
5 Double-crested Cormorant
1 Great Egret
4 Snowy Egret
1 White-tailed Kite
1 Bald Eagle (imm)
1* Red-shouldered Hawk
2 Red-tailed Hawk
30 Black-bellied Plover
10 Semi-palmated Plover
50 Willet
30 Marbled Godwit
2* Black Turnstone
300 Western Sandpiper
1+ Least Sandpiper
200 Dunlin
50 dowitcher sp.
2 Ring-billed Gull
15 Western Gull
4 Caspian Tern
10 Band-tailed Pigeon
4 Mourning Dove
3 Anna's Hummingbird
2 Allen's Hummingbird
3 Black Phoebe
6 Western Kingbird
1* Western Scrub-Jay
1 American Crow
1 Tree Swallow
4 Chestnut-backed Chickadee
2 Bushtit
1 Hermit Thrush
2 American Robin
2* Northern Mockingbird
4 European Starling
50 Cedar Waxwing
1 Yellow-rumped Warbler
2 California Towhee
2 Song Sparrow
3 White-crowned Sparrow
4 Golden-crowned Sparrow
2 Dark-eyed Junco
15 Red-winged Blackbird
5 Bullock's Oriole
20 House Finch
2 American Goldfinch

Bob Lewis
Berkeley, CA
RLewis0727 at aol.com