[EBB Sightings] Semi-palmated Plovers-SF Bay Trail in Richmond

Richmond to
Emeryville on the SF Bay Trail, GGAS Bicycle Trip, Saturday, July
 26, 2008





Highlights
were Semi-palmated Plovers and Western and Least Sandpipers. Nine of us enjoyed
the ride from the SF Bay Trail South 51st Street trailhead north to Meeker
Slough in Richmond then to just
south of University Ave in Berkeley,
doubling back to the bicycle bridge, and ending at Aquatic
 Park. We started just after high tide and finished at low tide. We had beautiful weather and were glad to be on
bicycles when we saw the cars piling into the Berkeley Marina for the Kite Festival. 43 species seen: 


Western Grebe 

American White Pelican

Brown Pelican

Double-crested Cormorant

Pelagic Cormorant

Great Blue Heron

Great Egret

Snowy Egret

Black-crowned Night-Heron

Canada Goose

Mallard

Gadwall

Red-shouldered Hawk

Red-tailed Hawk

Black-bellied Plover

Semipalmated Plover

Killdeer

American Avocet

Willet

Whimbrel

Long-billed Curlew

Marbled Godwit

Western Sandpiper

Least Sandpiper

Dowitcher sp.

Ring-billed Gull

Western Gull

Forster's Tern

Mourning Dove

Anna's Hummingbird

Northern Flicker, Red-shafted

Black Phoebe

Barn Swallow

American Crow

Northern Mockingbird

European Starling (I)

California
Towhee

Song Sparrow

White-crowned Sparrow

Red-winged Blackbird

House Finch

American Goldfinch

House Sparrow (I)




      
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