[EBB Sightings] White-faced ibises, Alameda shoreline

Yesterday morning, Jerry Steenhoven led an Ohlone Audubon field trip at the Elsie Roemer Bird Sanctuary and Bay Farm Island (Alameda shoreline).  49 species were seen.  At the sanctuary were elegant as well as Forster's terns, black turnstones and a great many black-bellied plovers and sanderlings on the beach, and yellow warblers in the fennel. Around noon, across from the Peet's Coffee headquarters on Bay Farm Island, a flock of 17 white-faced ibises flew past.  They looked like they were going to settle down on the marsh, but, perhaps spooked by so many onlookers, they continued on north closely following the shoreline. We had a single Caspian tern at the same location.

Stephanie Floyd
Fremont