[EBB Sightings] More Martinez birds

After the MDAS field trip, I continued birding at Martinez Regional 
Shoreline, another EBRPD property located west of the Martinez Amtrak 
station.  I started walking from the parking area on Embarcadero, turn left 
after crossing the RR tracks on Berrelessa St.  Walking west, I turned out 
to the Carquinez Strait and scoped the river from the bench near the sailing 
ship hulk.

Realizing all the ducks were downstream, I walked to the far edge of the 
EBRPD boundary to the west--towards Crockett.  The pilings of an abandoned 
pier stick out from the shore and a large raft of ducks was in that 
direction.  This raft of mostly Scaups, also included probably more than 100 
Common Goldeneyes, about a dozen male Barrow's Goldeneyes and some 
Canvasbacks.

Back at Alhambra Creek at the foot of Berrelessa Street, I found many 
shorebirds including Killdeer, Semi-palmated Plover, Western and Least 
Sandpiper and Dunlin.  Gadwalls and Mallards were in the water and a Great 
Egret and three gull sp were on the mudflats.  At least 4 Black-crowned 
Night-Herons were in the trees at the Berrelessa Street parking area.  Look 
for the whitewash.

Hugh B. Harvey