[EBB Sightings] Emeryville Cresent

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What is the best way to get out to the Emeryville Cresent?  This evening between 5-7:30, there were hundreds of birds feeding as the tide was going out.  I stopped along the on-ramp from the Albany Bulb to West 80 before the bridge, which is dangerous.  There were numerous Red-Necked Phalaropes feeding in the water along the road, as well as a large flock of Red-Necked Stilts, Marbled Godwits, Willets, Whimbrels, and Dowitchder spp.  Getting off at the Grand Ave exit before you get onto the bridge, then taking the frontage road afforded a good view of the mudflats, but I didn't have my scope. Even so,  there were hundreds of Least Terns, as well as 12 other spp of shorebirds feeding.  

Is there a safer and easier way to view this area?  Can you walk out at any point?  It's quite a sight.

Pat Bacchetti