[EBB Sightings] Golden Eagle at Niles Staging area

GGAS Alameda Creek/Quarry Lakes Bicycle Birding Trip
Fremont, Saturday, November 8, 2008
Eight people joined Blair and me for this cool foggy morning. With a forecast of rain for the afternoon, we decided to stay close to the Fremont BART station and investigate the upper portion of the Alameda Creek Trail and Quarry Lakes. Coyote Hills will have to be another day. We were astounded at the richness of birdlife here and saw by our count 60 species. The EBRPD Niles staging area gave us a Golden Eagle, Red-shafted Flickers, Cedar Waxwings and a Ruby-crowned Kinglet; Quarry Lakes EBRP had American White Pelicans and one Brown Pelican on Lago Los Osos adjacent to BART, and Black-crowned Night Herons on Willow Slough. Most of the other birds, including the Hooded Mergansers and Spotted Sandpiper, were seen on the creek. Thanks to all the good spotters! We encountered rain only after riding BART back to Oakland.
Pied-billed Grebe
Eared Grebe
Western Grebe
American White Pelican
Brown Pelican
Double-crested Cormorant
Great Blue Heron
Great Egret
Snowy Egret
Black-crowned Night-Heron
Canada Goose
Mallard
Northern Shoveler
Gadwall
American Wigeon
Ring-necked Duck
Greater Scaup
Lesser Scaup
Bufflehead
Hooded Merganser
Common Merganser
Ruddy Duck
Turkey Vulture
Cooper's Hawk
Red-tailed Hawk
Golden Eagle
American Coot
Killdeer
Black-necked Stilt
Greater Yellowlegs
Lesser Yellowlegs
Spotted Sandpiper
Ring-billed Gull
California Gull
Herring Gull
Glaucous-winged Gull
Rock Pigeon (I)
Mourning Dove
Anna's Hummingbird
Acorn Woodpecker
Nuttall's Woodpecker
Northern Flicker, red-shafted
Black Phoebe
Steller's Jay
Western Scrub-Jay
American Crow
Bushtit
Ruby-crowned Kinglet
American Robin
Northern Mockingbird
Cedar Waxwing
European Starling (I)
Yellow-rumped Warbler
Townsend's Warbler
California Towhee
White-crowned Sparrow
Dark-eyed Junco
Brewer's Blackbird
House Finch
House Sparrow (I)