[EBB Sightings] Shorebirds at Hayward Regional Shoreline today

Birders:

Between about 1:30 and 3:00 pm today Phil Gordon and I re-found a 
couple of the birds that Bob Richmond reported yesterday from the Ora 
Loma sewage treatment plant area in San Lorenzo.  Here are Bob's 
directions:

"This area is reached from Grant Ave. From the EBRPD parking area, a 
paved trail goes north to San Lorenzo Creek and turns west along the 
creek to the bay. The trail then turns to gravel as it goes to the 
south. On your left is a pond that had 10 Lesser Yellowlegs a few days 
ago (a Ruff wintered here in the late 1980's). After that on your left 
is Ora Loma Sewage Treatment Plant. The trail then goes over a foot 
bridge that crosses Bockman Channel. The pond the Stilt Sandpiper was 
in is just to the south of Bockman Channel. These ponds are private 
property, but fortunately it was in the pond closest to the public 
trail. The other ponds may be dry."

Specifically, we re-found 4 plegadis sp. ibis (most likely 
White-faced); they were in the pond " just to the south of Bockman 
Channel", and flying about, including over the bay shoreline.

We re-found the juv Stilt Sandpiper, in the "pond that had 10 Lesser 
Yellowlegs" in Bob's directions.  The bird was not apparent when we 
arrived, but was, with mainly Greater Yellowlegs, on our way out.

We did not re-find Bob's Pectoral Sandpipers or his Least Terns, but 
there were a few Lesser Yellowlegs present -- and thousands of other 
shorebirds foraging on the bay shoreline near the sewage plant outfall. 
  Nice.

Dave Quady
Berkeley, California
davequady at att.net