[EBB Sightings] OAS Field Trip Lake Elizabeth - Fremont

This morning, seven birders joined Mona Brauer and I for Ohlone Audubon's field trip at Lake Elizabeth in Fremont's Central Park.  The weather was cool, sometimes sunny and mostly gray, and free of rain and wind.  We enjoyed seeing 48 species.  Highlights were three "Aleutian" cackling geese on the lake near the boat dock at Bird Island.  On Tuesday, Mona and I saw four "Aleutian" cackling geese on the lawn near New Marsh and two "minima" cackling geese in a field near the Tri-City Animal Shelter.  Five American white pelicans were on Bird Island today along with more than thirty adult and immature black-crowned night herons. The mated pair of loggerhead shrikes perched just a tree or two away from each other on the east side of New Marsh.  An ever-increasing flock of tree swallows is wheeling around over the swallow boxes, and today we saw violet-green swallows and white-throated swifts among them. Western meadowlarks were in the field west of New
 Marsh.  Yellow-rumped warblers seem to be everywhere. A bright male common yellowthroat popped out to give us a look on the northwest side of the lake. Tuesday, three green-winged teal - uncommon in the park - were on New Marsh, but we did not seem them today.  A full list of species seen today follows.

Stephanie Floyd
Fremont

Cackling Goose (Aleutian)
Canada Goose 
Mallard 
Northern Shoveler 
Ruddy Duck 
Pied-billed Grebe
Western Grebe 
American White Pelican 
Double-crested Cormorant 
Great Egret
Snowy Egret 
Black-crowned Night-Heron 
Turkey Vulture 
Red-tailed Hawk 
American Kestrel 
American Coot 
Killdeer 
Ring-billed Gull 
Western Gull
California Gull 
Glaucous-winged Gull 
Rock Pigeon 
Mourning Dove 
White-throated Swift
Anna's Hummingbird 
Black Phoebe
Loggerhead Shrike 
Western Scrub-Jay 
American Crow 
Common Raven 
Tree Swallow 
Violet-green Swallow
Bushtit 
Ruby-crowned Kinglet 
American Robin
European Starling 
Yellow-rumped Warbler
Common Yellowthroat 
California Towhee 
Song Sparrow 
White-crowned Sparrow 
Red-winged Blackbird
Western Meadowlark
Brewer's Blackbird 
House Finch
Lesser Goldfinch
American Goldfinch
House Sparrow