[EBB Sightings] Summer Camp Birds: August 6-9, 2007

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If you have questions or comments, please address them directly to Brian 
at:  fogeggs at aol.com    Thanks,  Kay Loughman, Berkeley.

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Today (8/9/07)at the Berkeley Marina, we found a number of surprising 
birds to help make up for a lackluster, fogbound week.  At about 8:15 
this morning, I hear "tink-ul" overhead, and spotted three small birds 
flying over the kite hill at Cesar Chavez Park.  One of them circled 
around and landed, allowing three of us good scope views of a juvenile 
Lawrence's Goldfinch.  Around 10am, the three calling birds flew over 
the Berkeley Meadow without landing anywhere in view.  Early this 
afternoon, a calling Baird's Sandpiper flew close by us, and around 2pm, 
we discovered a Brant in the cove behind the Seabreeze at Frontage and 
University.  The day was further highlighted by a Pied-billed Grebe in 
the harbor, the continuing Pelagic Cormorants with three full-sized 
"chicks" still on the nest, and flyover Osprey, White-tailed Kite and 
American Kestrel.
The only other birds of note this week were a Spotted Sandpiper and two 
Red-necked Phalaropes at the Albany Crescent on the 7th.
Brian Fitch & Crew