[EBB Sightings] Western Bluebirds & Rufous HB-GGAS Coyote Hills Bicycle Trip

GGAS Alameda Creek/Coyote Hills Bicycle Trip, Saturday, January 31.
Six people braved the cold fog starting from Isherwood Staging Area (adjacent to Quarry Lakes EBRP) at 9 am. We could not even see to the lake beyond the chain link fence. Little by little the fog lifted and the sun started warming us. We dropped down to the DUST Trail and got even warmer and started seeing lots of birds, including a large number of Black-crowned Night Herons. The Tree Swallows were circling but not using the nest boxes. We stopped at the Quarry Staging area (between the entrance station and the visitor center) and were rewarded with a family of Western Bluebirds and foraging Golden-crowned  Sparrows.  At the visitors center we went into the butterfly garden and saw Monarch Butterflies and a Rufous Hummingbird and some Anna's HB's and Lesser Goldfinches. Going back to the Alameda Creek Trail on the return, we found lots of ducks (see below) and at the crossing of I-880 we found a Red-shouldered Hawk where we have seen one many times
 before. The car drivers left us at Isherwood and the BART users rode up the trail to the BART weir and  found a Belted Kingfisher, Gadwalls, Lesser Scaup and lots of gulls in the lake. 57 species seen, plus a deer browsing on the north bank between the freeway and Decoto Rd.
Pied-billed Grebe
Double-crested Cormorant
Great Blue Heron
Great Egret
Snowy Egret
Black-crowned Night-Heron
Canada Goose
Green-winged Teal
Mallard
Northern Pintail
Northern Shoveler
Gadwall
American Wigeon
Canvasback
Lesser Scaup
Ruddy Duck
Turkey Vulture
White-tailed Kite
Northern Harrier
Red-shouldered Hawk
Red-tailed Hawk
American Coot
Killdeer
American Avocet
Greater Yellowlegs
Western Sandpiper
Long-billed Dowitcher
Mew Gull
Ring-billed Gull
California Gull
Herring Gull
Western Gull
Rock Pigeon (I)
Mourning Dove
Anna's Hummingbird
Rufous Hummingbird
Belted Kingfisher
Northern Flicker, red-shafted
Black Phoebe
Tree Swallow
Western Scrub-Jay
American Crow
Chestnut-backed Chickadee
Bushtit
Marsh Wren
Western Bluebird
American Robin
Warbling Vireo
Yellow-rumped Warbler
California Towhee
Song Sparrow
Golden-crowned Sparrow
White-crowned Sparrow
Red-winged Blackbird
Western Meadowlark
House Finch
Lesser Goldfinch