[EBB Sightings] Alameda Creek-Coyote Hills GGAS bicycle trip-Sat Jun 27

Alameda Creek/Coyote Hills GGAS bicycle trip
Saturday, June 27, 2009
10 people, seven of whom arrived by BART.
Highlights: White Pelicans, Red-Shouldered Hawks; Bottlebrush
tree at Coyote Hills Visitor Center with Bullocks Orioles as we ate our lunch
below. 
Downers: Squirrel running into a bicycle and causing
a fall; afternoon high of approximately 90 degrees; BART police action at
Bayfair Station in the morning with BART police entering a train with guns
drawn, causing a delay for all and scare for those on that particular train.
51 species 
Pied-billed Grebe
Western Grebe
American White Pelican
Double-crested Cormorant
Great Blue Heron
Great Egret
Snowy Egret
Green Heron
Canada Goose
Mallard
American Wigeon
Turkey Vulture
White-tailed Kite
Red-shouldered Hawk
Red-tailed Hawk
Common Moorhen
American Coot
Killdeer
Black-necked Stilt
American Avocet
Greater Yellowlegs
Dowitcher sp.
California Gull
Forster's Tern
Rock Pigeon (I)
Mourning Dove
Anna's Hummingbird
Nuttall's Woodpecker
Northern Flicker, red-shafted
Black Phoebe
Tree Swallow
Cliff Swallow
Barn Swallow
Western Scrub-Jay
American Crow
Chestnut-backed Chickadee
Bushtit
Bewick's Wren
Marsh Wren
American Robin
Northern Mockingbird
European Starling (I)
California Towhee
Song Sparrow
Red-winged Blackbird
Brown-headed Cowbird
Bullock's Oriole
House Finch
Lesser Goldfinch
House Sparrow (I)
Chilean Flamingo