[EBB Sightings] American pipits & more - Don Edwards NWR, Newark

Sunday morning I birded Don Edwards NWR in Newark. In
the grass along the shoreline under the Dumbarton
Bridge, out by the pier, I found a single American
pipit.  I saw a few more pipits within 1/2 mile of the
pier, along the slough as I drove back up Marshlands
Road towards the Visitor Center. A group of
Bonaparte's gulls was in the ponds southeast of the
pier.

In the slough west of the Learning Center, I found a
few cinnamon teal and several female canvasbacks.

A white-tailed kite and a dark-morph red-tailed hawk
(undoubtedly the same one as seen at Coyote Hills)
were perched on poles on the north edge of La Riviere
Marsh.  I saw at least three other red-tailed hawks on
trees and towers in the area.

The mated pair of peregrine falcons was perched on
their favorite electrical tower overlooking the ponds
behind the "W" hotel.  The small male was on top of
the tower, with the big female perched several
crossbars below him.  Avocets, coots, shovelers,
green-winged teal, mallards, peeps & others went about
their business in the ponds below.







Stephanie Floyd
Fremont


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