[EBB Sightings] Hooded Mergansers at Aquatic Park

Sorry about the delay; didn't get on line until this afternoon. On 
Friday we saw both a female and a male Hooded Meganser at Aquatic Park 
in Berkeley.

You may all remember that a male-female pair came to Aquatic Park for 
about five years in a row. Then last year, the 2006-2007 winter, the 
male showed up alone, and just stayed for a few weeks. On Friday we 
walked the main pond, the large pond, and saw a female on the path by 
the water north of the new playground/washroom complex.

Then we saw a male on the middle pond, on the southeast corner, just 
where the pair used to hang out. I suspect this is the male that has 
been there for the last six years, and the female showed up 
independently on her own. It would be nice if they get together.

Another major sighting on the same day: a long-tailed duck (Oldsquaw) on 
the main pond at the southwest corner, near the boathouse for the 
sculls. Unfortunately, he looked slightly oiled.

Hooded Merganser
Red Breasted Merganser
Long Tailed Duck
Bufflehead
Common Goldeneye
Greater Scaup
Surf Scoter
Ruddy Duck
Mallard
Eared Grebe
Horned Grebe
Western Grebe
Double Crested Cormorant
Pied Billed Grebe
Coot
Great Blue Heron
Snowy Egret
Black Crowned Night Heron
Green Heron
Western Sandpiper
Dowitcher (Couldn't tell if they were short or long billed)
American Avocet
Black Necked Stilt
Willet
Foerster's Tern
Turkey Vulture
Red Tailed Hawk
Gold Crowned Sparrow
Crow
California Gull
Western Gull
California Towhee
American Goldfinch