[EBB Sightings] Parasitic Jaeger & Brant continues at Berkeley Marina

This Sunday morning between 9:45 and 11:00, I continuously watched  
the Parasitic Jaeger at the very end of the Berkeley Pier.  When I  
first arrived, the jaeger was chasing a gull at the very end of the  
fishing pier.  During the last hour I was at the pier (and joined by  
fellow birder Dan Sidle), the jaeger was 1/2 to 1 mile away--usually  
in flight over the old abandoned pier or slowly swimming to the south  
of the old pier.  The jaeger spent about 80 % of the time floating on  
the ocean and having a scope greatly aided in identifying the jaeger  
when the bird was at rest in the ocean.  When the jaeger was chasing  
other gulls and terns for their meal, identification was a cinch at  
distance, even with binoculars. When the jaeger was in flight, it was  
typically flying in the vicinity of the old pier. It's an interesting  
bird to watch when it is in flight.  There were a lot of other birds  
on the old pier including some Elegant Terns.

On the way back, Dan and I stopped at the inlet just south of  
University Ave. and we both spotted the Brant near the northwest  
corner of the inlet.  The white necklace on the Brant was wider than  
on most Brandts and the necklace width was constant--not tapering to  
the rear of the neck.  The necklace also lacked the black diagonal  
stripes which is typical of the Brandt's I've seen.

--Ted R.--