[EBB Sightings] FOS Hooded Oriole & other stuff

Hi Birders,

Spring has officially sprung  for me.  As I sit at my computer, my fos HOODED 
ORIOLE is singing and  "wheeping" in a eucalyptus across the parking lot 
where I work (Fairmont  Hospital in San Leandro).  This is a new species for the 
ABY cumulative  list.

Yesterday, while I was looking for a Lesser Yellowlegs (LEYE) at  Bockman 
Channel at Hayward Shoreline (not seen), I saw one of the male Eurasian  Wigeons 
reported by Bob Richmond.  (Bob also reported a LEYE at Haywards  Landing -- 
once again I was in the wrong place at the wrong time!)  But the  most 
unexpected bird of the day was a juvenile BALD EAGLE circling  overhead.  I eventually 
lost sight of it as it climbed higher and drifted  off to the south.  All the 
shorebirds turning their heads sideways to look  up alerted me to the eagle, 
or I probably would have missed it.

No luck  finding the Black Scoter at San Leandro Marina on my lunch hour 
today.  

Good birding,
Kathy Robertson
Hayward, CA  




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