[EBB Sightings] Summer Camp Birds-6/17-19/2008

I am posting this message for Brian Fitch.  Questions or comments should 
  be sent directly to Brian at fogeggs at aol.com

School is out, and so are summer camp birders and I.  On Tuesday at the 
Albany mudflats, we found a female Northern Pintail wallowing around, 
and many oversummering Clark's Grebes.  Wednesday brought a female type 
Hooded Oriole along the Seaview Trail near the Big Springs Trail in 
Tilden.  Thursday at the Berkeley Marina was especially rich, with a 
first summer Pacific Loon in the harbor, nestling Pelagic Cormorants on 
the breakwater wall, a pair of Northern Harriers over the meadow, a 
female Red Phalarope still in alternate plumage at Brickyard Beach, at 
least two Barn Owls in the box mentioned by Bob Power, and a single Tree 
Swallow behind the Seabreeze Market, a species we don't usually see in 
June along the waterfront.
Brian Fitch & Crew