[EBB Sightings] Sat Jul 7-Hayward Shoreline GGAS Bicycle-Bird

GGAS Bicycle Birding Trip-San Leandro Marina to Hayward Shoreline
Interpretive Center, Saturday July 7, 2007
Kathy Jarrett, leader
Seven of us had a good day of bicycling and birding-15 miles plus
another 6 for those who biked from the San Leandro BART Station. It
started out cold and gray and even rained on us for a couple of minutes
on our way from BART, but eventually the sun came out although it
continued to be fairly cool and windy. We were a couple of hours past
high tide as we started, but there were still quite a few shorebirds
visible near the trail. We saw Red Knots, other assorted shore birds
and Least Terns, the Common Moor Hen at the small pond by the Heron?s
Bay Housing development just south of Lewelling Blvd. while still on
the paved trail in San Leandro. Barn Swallows were everywhere, and
quite a few Black-necked Stilts with young. We met EBRPD ranger Mark
Taylor on the trail at the beginning of the Hayward Shoreline and he
told us where to look for the elusive Yellow-Billed Cuckoo; we rode our
bikes up the trail along Sulphur Creek, then trudged along the trees
under the power line. We saw lots of House Sparrows, a couple of
American Goldfinches, a couple of N. Mockingbirds and a Loggerhead
Shrike but no YB Cuckoo. There were quite a few Ruddy Ducks starting
south of Winton Ave. all the way to the end of our trip at the Hayward
Shoreline Interpretive Center. Nearing the center we saw quite a few
Wilson?s Phalaropes on the pond near the bay. The current exhibit of
the physics of bird flight at the center was quite good. (Hours of
Operation: 10:00AM to 5:00PM Saturday and Sunday Only - 4901 Breakwater
Avenue, Hayward, CA 94545) Returning we saw a big flock of White
Pelicans fly over in a beautiful formation, and couple of scaup huddled
on the mud at the bay just near the Interpretive Center. A pair of
Horned Larks were feeding on the north side of the paved trail from the
Winton Ave. trailhead to the SF Bay Trail. We battled the wind all the
way back to the trailhead. 51 species.
Pied-billed Grebe
American White Pelican
Brown Pelican
Double-crested Cormorant
Great Egret
Snowy Egret
Black-crowned Night-Heron
Canada Goose
Mallard
Scaup sp.
Ruddy Duck
Turkey Vulture
Red-tailed Hawk
Common Moorhen
Black-bellied Plover
Killdeer
Black-necked Stilt
American Avocet
Greater Yellowlegs
Willet
Whimbrel
Long-billed Curlew
Marbled Godwit
Red Knot
Western Sandpiper
Dowitcher sp.	Wilson's Phalarope
Ring-billed Gull
Western Gull
Caspian Tern
Forster's Tern
Least Tern
Rock Dove (I)
Mourning Dove
Anna's Hummingbird
Black Phoebe
Tree Swallow
Cliff Swallow
Barn Swallow
American Crow
Bushtit
Marsh Wren
Northern Mockingbird
Loggerhead Shrike
European Starling (I)
California Towhee
Song Sparrow
Red-winged Blackbird
House Finch
American Goldfinch
House Sparrow (I)



kathy jarrett
kathy_jarrett at yahoo.com


       
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