[EBB Sightings] Continuing Northern Waterthrush, 3rd time's a charm

A couple of us went to Berkeley Aquatic Park looking for the continuing 
Northern Waterthrush today.  We first looked around 9 AM at the northeast 
corner of the south pond.  As Steve Huckabone wrote, it is not the best 
place to go birding.  We seemed to be interrupting some business there. 
Didn't find it the first time, walked around the middle pond, went inside 
the bushes again and didn't find it then either.  We did find a Hermit 
Thrush, CA Towhee, numerous Yellow-rumped Warblers, a Song, a White-crowned 
and Golden-crowned Sparrow and Chestnut-backed Chickadees.

Took a run up to the race track and found two Eurasian Wigeons with all the 
Americans and other ducks at the end of Buchanan.  Behind the Sea Breeze at 
University we had two more Eurasian Wigeons.  At Pt. Emery we found a small 
flock of Sanderlings and a few Least Sandpipers.

Tried a third time for the Northern Waterthrush and were successful.  This 
time we even had a Red-breasted Nuthatch taking a bath in the little bit of 
water flowing in at the very corner.

The Northern Waterthrush is very furtive, hard to see because it is well 
inside the overhanging vegetation.  If you go there, I would recommend going 
with a partner; at least one of you should be male.

Also in the pond were some N. Shovelers, Stilts, Avocets, Greater Yellowlegs 
and Dowitchers.

Hugh B. Harvey