[EBB Sightings] Coed White-winged Scoter leaves College in Berkeley

Birders:

At 3:45 this afternoon, as I drove south on College Avenue past 
Berkeley's Elmwood branch post office, I spotted a duck in the middle 
of the street a block ahead of me.  I slowed, and saw if fly a short 
distance and then land in Woolsey Street, just a few feet east of 
College.  My route took me up Woolsey, so I was able to slow, and then 
stop, lower my window, and admire this female White-winged Scoter in 
the middle of the street, just a few feet away from my car.  When I 
retraced my path 45 minutes later it was gone.

Years ago I lived about a half-mile away, closer to the Claremont 
Hotel.  There my yard list included a Wilson's Snipe and a male Wood 
Duck, both of which landed in my yard.  Now I wonder which inhabitants 
of the College Avenue Oakland-Berkeley borderline neighborhood now have 
White-winged Scoter on their yard list.

Dave Quady
Berkeley, California
davequady at att.net