[EBB Sightings] Baird's SP continues

[EBB Sightings] Baird's SP continues

Bob Power
Sun Aug 10 20:27:50 PDT 2008
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    Hi all:
    
    I tooled around the bayside today. Highlights:
    
    George Chrisman's Canada Geese on the move?
    800 in the fields on either side of the Coyote Hills
    entrance road.
    1 Canada/Graylag? cross. It's an interesting Goose
    that looks like the wings, back and nape are Canada
    and then has orange legs and a huge belly.
    Wilson's Warblers 2 -  Willow Trail and at Hoot Hollow
    Kathy Spence sighting
    Least Terns -- 70  interesting day roost / staging
    area on the last levee before the west end of the
    Alameda Creek Trail
    Baird's Sandpiper -- continuing juvenile less than a
    quarter mile north of the Hayward Interp Center off of
    Clawiter. 
    possible Kathy Robertson sighting.
    Confirmed Dolores Butkus, Amy McDonald sightings.
    Wandering Tattler -- 1  In flight heading south at San
    Leandro Marina
    Ruddy Turnstone -- 5  Little Bird island, San Leandro
    Marina
    Surfbird -- 2    Little Bird island, San Leandro
    Marina
    Willets -- is it just me, or are there more, like a
    lot more, than in the last few years. They were
    swarmin'....
    
    A few digi-scoped photos from today can be seen at:
    http://www.flickr.com/photos/14935921 at N00/
    
    The Baird's Sandpiper is down about 8 photos. fyi.
    
    Good birding,
    
    Bob Power
    Oakland, CA 
    
    
    


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