[EBB Sightings] Little Blue Heron at Quarry Lakes in Fremont/Niles

David,

I asked two rangers who were doing something related to the new fish  
ladder in the creek about those big fish and they said they were  
carp. I've been seeing them in large numbers in the creek for about  
the past month.

Charlotte Allen
c.allen at comcast.net



On Jul 11, 2009, at 7:25 PM, David Leahy wrote:

> Hi folks,
> I had a good visit this afternoon to an old haunt, Quarry Lakes.   
> It is a
> very birdy place, with robust breeding populations of many birds.   
> I saw
> many good birds, but the highlight for me is a lifer, a Little Blue  
> Heron.
> My first pass through my pictures of this guy are posted at:
> http://leahy.to/birds/little%20blue%20heron.html
> The Little Blue Heron was camped out on the south shore of Alameda  
> Creek
> just a bit upstream (to the east, towards Niles Canyon) from Niles
> Community Park at 3rd St. & H St., Fremont, CA.  At L street or so,  
> I'd
> say.  Pictures were taken at about 3:45pm.
> This Little Blue was keeping to itself, even though there were  
> dozens and
> dozens of snowy egrets and many great egrets a few hundred yards
> downstream.  I enjoyed watching it forage, as its style was  
> different from
> the egrets.
> Also seen:  a pair of Spotted Sandpipers, right in the vicinity of the
> Little Blue Heron, actively feeding on the south shore.  A Green Heron
> gave me very nice views from the levee top on the rocky north shore  
> of the
> creek.  Downy and Nuttall's Woodpeckers, Forster's Terns and one  
> Caspian
> Tern.  American Pelicans.  A flock of a dozen or so Common  
> Mergansers is
> on the creek.  Many, many Black Phoebes, including families units,  
> with
> fledged but begging juvies attended to by their harried parents.  The
> Lakes (formerly quarries) contained a host of Mallards, but also  
> Gadwalls,
> Coots, a few Pied-billed Grebes, and a couple of Double-crested
> Cormorants.  There is a lot of brushy area around the lakes filled  
> with a
> mix of Bushtits, Chickadees, Titmice and friends.  At 3pm there was an
> amazing stream of gulls flying north, just west of the BART tracks,  
> into
> the larger lakes like Lago Los Osos, presumably to camp for the  
> night --
> perhaps 30-60 gulls a minute, continuously.
> I should have updates in my bird album for some of the other birds  
> later
> this evening; I may tweak up the Little Blue Heron after further  
> review
> as well.
> There are also a large number of enormous fish visible in the creek.
> Anyone know what they are?  They were around a meter in length.
> 				David Leahy
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