[EBB Sightings] FW: Good Seabirding!

Forwarding this to the list for Mark Rauzon.

Glen Tepke
Oakland

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From: Mjrauz at aol.com
To: g.tepke at comcast.net
Subject: Good Seabirding!
Date: Wed, 16 May 2007 21:33:36 +0000
> Glen - could you post this to EBB listserv for me? Thanks, mark
> 
> On a Double-crested Cormorant survey of the Bay Bridges, May 16, 2007, we 
> discovered three Brandt Cormorant nests in Alameda County, which may be a county 
> record. The nests were on the cable-crossing structure, south of the east span 
> of the SF-Oakland Bay Bridge, a site that is crucial for Double-crested 
> Cormorants post-fledging care. The Brandt's were incubating in the presence of 
> one 
> Double-crested Cormorant nest, a first for this species at this site. 
> Approximately 50 Brandt's Cormorant immatures were also roosting here with 
> Double-crested immatures as well.   This new breeding record is part of the 
> trend of 
> increasing Brandt's Cormorants in the Bay after their colonization of Alcatraz 
> about 6 years ago, Ano Nuevo in the 1990s, and other coastal locations. In 
> contrast, Double-crested Cormorant numbers may be declining.
> 
> In addition, 35 Least Terns were on the derelict Berkeley pier closest to the 
> promenade portion, while about 350, if not more, Forster's Terns were at the 
> seaward end of the pier. In the Emeryville crescent were 5 Pigeon Guillemots, 
> perhaps scope-able from the north seawall of the marina. 
> 
> Good Seabirding!
> Mark Rauzon
> Meredith Elliott
> Jason Minton
> Eric Lichtwardt
> 
> 
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