[EBB Sightings] American Bitten at Coyote Hills highlight of Alameda Creek/east bay shoreline bike ride

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Subject: [EBB Sightings] American Bitten at Coyote Hills highlight of
Alameda Creek/east bay shoreline bike ride
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Jim Chiropolos and I met Saturday morning at Lake Merritt where we
quickly found the Tufted Duck with quite an extensive tuft. ?We took
BART down to Union City and began our biking along Alameda Creek near
Mission Blvd, proceeded down to Coyote Hills and then north back to
Lake Merritt. The biggest surprise was an American Bittern at Coyote
Hills in the reeds in the westernmost pond along Alameda Creek right
before you can take the paved trail around towards the Visitor Center.
The area where Jim spotted it was a few yards east of where
Black-crowned Night Herons were roosting. ?Other highlights included a
Wood Duck in Alameda Creek just east of Mission Blvd, Bullock?s Oriole
and Acorn Woodpecker at the parking lot in the same location, two
Ring-necked Pheasants and a Merlin at Coyote Hills and a Great Blue
Heron swallowing a rat at Garretson Point.

We did not find any of the notable birds recently seen at Coyote Hills
(though we didn?t allow much time to search), Cackling or Snow Geese
at Frank?s Dump (though the numbers of swallows there were impressive)
or Barrow?s Goldeneyes at Lake Merritt.

The complete list of the 104 species seen are below.

Derek Heins
Piedmont


Double-crested Cormorant
Red-throated Loon (just south of High Street Bridge)
Clark's Grebe
Western Grebe
Horned Grebe
Eared Grebe
Pied Billed Grebe
Common Coot
Common Moorhen (Coyote Hills)
Clapper Rail (Arrowhead Marsh)
American Bittern ?(Coyote Hills)
Great Blue Heron
Black-crowned Night Heron
Great Egret
Snowy Egret
Canada Goose
Cinnamon Teal
Green-winged Teal
Mallard
Wood Duck (Alameda Creek)
Northern Shoveler
Gadwall
American Wigeon
Northern Pintail
Ring-necked Duck (Alameda Creek)
Tufted Duck
Lesser Scalp
Greater Scalp
Canvasback
Bufflehead
Common Goldeneye
Surf Scoter
Ruddy Duck
Killdeer
Black-bellied Plover
Black-necked Stilt
American Avocet
Willet
Marbled Godwit
Long-billed Curlew
Whimbrel
Long-billed Dowitcher
Greater Yellowlegs
Dunlin
Spotted Sandpiper
Least Sandpiper
Western Sandpiper
Common Snipe (Coyote Hills)
Glacous-winged Gull
Western Gull
Herring Gull (Alameda Creek)
California Gull
Ring-billed Gull
Mew Gull
Caspian Tern
Forster?s Tern
Turkey Vulture
Kestrel
Merlin (Coyote Hills)
Black-Shouldered Kite
Northern Harrier
Red-tailed hawk
Ring-necked Pheasant (Coyote Hills)
Rock Dove
Mourning Dove
Barn Swallow
Cliff swallow
Tree Swallow
Violet Green Swallow
Anna?s Hummingbird
Allen's Hummingbird (Coyote Hills visitors center)
Nuttall?s Woodpecker
Northern Flicker
Acorn Woodpecker (Alameda Creek)
Raven
American Crow
Scrub Jay
Black Phoebe
Says Phoebe
Cedar Waxwing
Northern Mockingbird
American Robin
Hermit Thrush
Bushtit
Ruby-crowned Kinglet
Bewick's Wren
Marsh Wren
Oak Titmouse
Chestnut-backed Chickadee
Hutton's Vireo (in nest)
Yellow-rumped warbler
Bullock's Oriole
Western Meadowlark
Brewers Blackbird
Red-winged Blackbird
Starling
House Sparrow
House Finch
American Goldfinch
California Towhee
Spotted Towhee
Song Sparrow
Savannah Sparrow
White-crowned Sparrow
Golden-crowned Sparrow
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