[EBB Sightings] Pintails at Lake Merritt

I wonder what's changed.  I check out Lake Merritt fairly regularly (not as regularly as Hilary) and have never seen Pintails there.

Glen Tepke
Oakland

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From: "Doug Greenberg" 
> Those MVZ photos Joyce cited are from looooong ago!  I can add that Pintails 
> were prominent at the lake much more recently than that.  One of the very 
> first experiences I had with bird photography took place during the winter 
> of 1967-68 when I brought my old Ektachrome-loaded Pentax SLR and a 
> Schneider 360mm. lens to Lake Merritt.  I was delighted by the variety and 
> tameness of the waterfowl around the visitor area/science center and I was 
> able to get frame-filling photos of many species, including some gorgeous 
> male Pintails. I still have those slides filed away in my "archives."
> 
> Doug Greenberg, Berkeley 
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