[EBB Sightings] Frank's Dump West--Hayward Regional Shoreline

Eugenia Larson and I made the trek out to the bay and north to Frank's Dump 
late this afternoon to catch the high tide.  We scrambled down the bank to 
hide below the wind and sat with our tripods on broken concrete, pickleweed 
and thistles.  A three Tern day, a three Phalarope day.  What a show.

Many of the shorebirds we saw were in breeding plumage.

Snowy Egret (1), Canada Goose, Mallard, Greater Scaup (flew in and landed 
for a while), Black-bellied Plover (several), Semipalmated Plover, 
Black-necked Stilt, American Avocet (one with  4 chicks along the south 
shore), Willet, Marbled Godwit, Ruddy Turnstone (1), Red Knot (many), 
Sanderling, Western and Least Sandpipers, Dunlin (many), Short-billed 
Dowitcher, Wilson's Phalarope (1), Red Phalarope (1), Red-necked Phalarope 
(many), Ring-billed Gull, Least Tern (as many as 10), Forster's Tern, 
Caspian Tern (up to 3), Barn Swallow, Horned Lark (on the walk out), 
Brown-headed Cowbird (at the parking area).

Hugh B. Harvey