[EBB Sightings] STILT SANDPIPER by Marshlands Road, Don Edwards NWR

This afternoon at 4:30 PM I found one STILT SANDPIPER
feeding alongside a SANDERLING exactly 2.1 miles down
Marshlands Road from the stop sign at the Visitor
Center at Don Edwards NWR in Newark.  It looked like
they were in the midst of a swarm of black insects
(flies?) All the greater and lesser yellowlegs and
dowitchers were in the ponds at the entrance; these
birds were all by themselves out there, except for a
willet, a California gull, a Western gull, and 2 least
sandpipers that were closer to the pier.  Note:
Marshlands Road is posted "No Parking" but not "no
stopping"; you can stop long enough to look at the
birds from your car. 

About an hour earlier, a PEREGRINE FALCON flew
northwest across the Tidelands Trail towards the
Dumbarton Bridge.  Other raptors of note: three
soaring red-tailed hawks, a male kestrel hunting
insects from telephone wires on the entrance road, an
immature northern harrier flying along the hillside
past the kestrel, and a white-tailed kite
hover-hunting above the slough.

In the trees - yellow-rumped warblers, an
orange-crowned warbler, a great many white- and
golden-crowned sparrows, more than one hermit thrush,
a downy woopecker, CA towhees, and common
yellowthroats.

Ducks of note: shovelers, ruddies, and at least one
each American wigeon and gadwall.




Stephanie Floyd
Fremont

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