[EBB Sightings] Pectoral Sandpipers continue at Coyote Hills RP

Birders:

Three juvenile Pectoral Sandpipers were still present at 8:00 am  
today, in the same general area where Kathy Robertson found one on  
Wednesday.  The directions Judith Dunham posted yesterday worked for me:

> Here is how to find the area that the birds seem to prefer: Park in  
> the main lot in front of the visitor center. Walk back to the  
> entrance to the lot, before the road divides. East of the road, you  
> have a choice to take a boardwalk to your right or a gravel trail  
> to your left. Walk down the gravel trail. On the right, you will  
> see a mudflat patterned with deep crevices. As soon as you have a  
> good view, scan the mudflat. The Pectoral Sandpipers were feeding  
> within the deep crevices, disappearing one moment, reappearing  
> another. I was about twenty feet away from the birds, which were  
> not spooked by the occasional bike that came by.


The birds seemed fairly skittish during the half-hour I spent there,  
flushing between the area Judith described and the larger portion of  
the marsh further north, occasionally landing out of view.  But one  
bird still remained in close view as I left.

Dave Quady
Berkeley, California
davequady at att.net