[EBB Sightings] Red-necked Phalaropes

Hi all:

This morning I drove to the west end of Marshlands Rd., parallel to Hwy 84, and then biked out the Shoreline trail, northbound.  Red-necked Phalaropes have massed in abundance on either side of the east end of the Dumbarton Bridge. On the south side I had 1600 Phalaropes, and on the north side, there was one loose raft of 800 and a little further north a tighter group of 2,000.

A group of phalaropes has many collective nouns, including a "dopping", "swirl", "twirl", "whirl", and "whirligig" of phalaropes.  All of those nouns applied, but I was thinking whirligig was most appropriate.

Good birding,

Bob Power
Oakland, Ca