[EBB Sightings] Lincoln's sparrows at Lake Elizabeth - Fremont

In preparation for Sunday's CBC, I practiced counting
for 2 1/2 hours this afternoon on a really hard
subject: Lake Elizabeth in Fremont's Central Park
(Paseo Padre at Stevenson).  I restricted my count to
birds seen from the lakeside path and at New Marsh. By
far the best birds were 2 Lincoln's sparrows on a
fallen log just after you enter the tree area as you
walk southwest on the lakeside path (just beyond the
R/R tracks).  They both perched right out in the open
for a long time, watching me watch them.  Also in the
trees to the right of the path just beyond the R/R
tracks: 1 hairy woodpecker, 1 Nuttall's woodpecker, 1
male and 1 female common yellowthroat, and 4
ruby-crowned kinglets, one of which had its red crown
bristled up - what a great, brilliant view! I was
amazed to see a tree swallow swirling over Bird
Island. The rest of the list of 37 species follows.  I
identified gulls, but didn't count them - I salute
anyone who can do that.  About 400 gulls were on the
lake this afternoon. 
 
Canada goose 430 (plus 1 "funny" Canada goose)
Mallard 147 (plus 2 Peking, 3 Muscovy, and 17 "funny"
ducks)
Northern shoveler 188
Ruddy duck 132
Pied-billed grebe 2
Western grebe 1
Double-crested cormorant 34
Great egret 3
Snowy egret 1
Black-crowned night heron 8
Turkey vulture 4
White-tailed kite 1 (hunting over the golf course near
the R/R tracks)
Red-tailed hawk 2 (might have been the same bird in
several places: over the library, flushing gulls on
the lawn north of New Marsh, and perched in a tree on
Bird Island)
American kestrel 1
American coot 635
Ring-billed gull 
California gull
Glaucous-winged gull
Rock pigeon 262 (mostly counted at roost under the
dock at twilight)
Anna's hummingbird 3
Nuttall's woodpecker 1
Hairy woodpecker 1
Black phoebe 5
American crow 26
Tree swallow 1
Chestnut-backed chickadee 1
Bushtit 36 (roughly)
Ruby-crowned kinglet 4
American robin 1
European starling 2
Yellow-rumped warbler 10
Common yellowthroat 2
Lincoln's sparrow 2
White-crowned sparrow 25
Red-winged blackbird 2
Brewer's blackbird 54
House sparrow 2
 
 
 
 
 





Stephanie Floyd
Fremont


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