[EBB Sightings] 05-12-2007-GGAS Alameda Cr/Coyote Hills Bicycle Birding Trip

05-12-2007-GGAS Alameda Cr/Coyote Hills Bicycle Birding Trip
A cool, quite windy day, and a Butterfly and Bird Event at the Coyote
Hills Visitor Center made for a very different day than that reported
by Rusty Scalf two weeks ago. We started at the Fremont BART Station
and rode to the Alameda Creek Trail, peering into Quarry Lakes to see a
Green Heron. The riparian area between the BART tracks and the EBRPD
Isherwood Staging area was quite busy: there we saw Common Mergansers,
Gadwall, Greater Yellowlegs, Killdeer and dowitchers. Where the trail
crosses under I-880 we saw a Red-Shouldered Hawk, which we have in the
past. The Tree Swallows were busily flying in and out of the nest boxes
in the marsh at Coyote Hills. The mudflats there, which supported many
shorebirds two weeks ago, are now completely dry, and the only
shorebirds we saw at Coyote Hills were some Black-necked Stilts. The
Butterfly Garden at the Visitor Center was full of people and amplified
music, but we did see both Anna?s and Allen?s Hummingbirds and there
were many American Goldfinches at the seed feeders. A pair of
Red-tailed Hawks was seen flying in and out of a nest on a large
Monterey Pine up the hill from the picnic area, and as we left to
bicycle back, a huge number of Red-winged Blackbirds were literally
nipping at a besieged male Northern Harrier. Because of the intense
wind we decided to forgo our usual circumnavigation of the hill on the
Bayview Trail. Western Grebe were on the water at Quarry Lakes. 22
miles, with 4 of 8 people arriving by BART. 55 species. Kathy Jarrett.
Pied-billed Grebe
Western Grebe
Double-crested Cormorant
Great Egret
Snowy Egret
Green Heron
Black-crowned Night-Heron
Canada Goose
Mallard
Gadwall
Greater Scaup
Common Merganser
Ruddy Duck
Turkey Vulture
Northern Harrier
Red-shouldered Hawk
Red-tailed Hawk
Common Moorhen
American Coot
Killdeer
Black-necked Stilt
Greater Yellowlegs
Short-billed Dowitcher
Long-billed Dowitcher
California Gull
Forster's Tern
Rock Pigeon
Mourning Dove
Anna's Hummingbird
Allen's Hummingbird
Black Phoebe
Tree Swallow
Violet-green Swallow
N. Rough-winged Swallow
Cliff Swallow
Barn Swallow
Western Scrub-Jay
American Crow
Chestnut-backed Chickadee
Bushtit
Marsh Wren
American Robin
Northern Mockingbird
Cedar Waxwing
European Starling
Common Yellowthroat-heard
California Towhee
Song Sparrow
Red-winged Blackbird
Brewer's Blackbird
Brown-headed Cowbird
House Finch
Lesser Goldfinch
American Goldfinch
House Sparrow

kathy jarrett
kathy_jarrett at yahoo.com


 
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