[EBB Sightings] Common Murre in Berkeley

While stopping at Pt. Emery this afternoon to look for anything, I met Jim 
Scarff who arrived on his bicycle.  As I had found only one Western Grebe 
and one distant gull, he said he had just seen a young Common Murre north 
along the frontage road.  He pedaled and I drove to see where he stopped. 
Continuing north and turning around at the Sea Breeze, I returned to park at 
the spaces near the Ashby Avenue exit (southbound).  Walking north from here 
a couple of hundred yards, I easily found the young Common Murre just a few 
feet offshore.  It was paddling gently to keep its head to the wind and its 
butt off the beach.  Just a little bit north of this point is some kind of a 
framework out in the water.  I don't think this is the same support for the 
long-ago Snoopy on top of his dog house which was out in the water somewhere 
along there.  Snoopy may actually have been south of Ashby, but those 
memories are distant.

Hugh B. Harvey