[EBB Sightings] Great tailed grackles in Martinez

Joel Goldman and I saw about 20 great tailed grackles, about 1/3 adult 
males, in a parking lot on the road into Waterbird Park in Martinez 
today around 11:30 AM.  They were congregated around a taco truck and 
enjoying scraps of food being offered by people in pickups eating lunch 
in the lot. Suggest if you are interested in seeing the grackles, go 
during lunchtime.  Location is the intersection of Waterfront Rd and 
Waterbird Way.

We also had  a good look at an Osprey kiting over the marsh at the same 
location.  We've never seen an osprey kiting, and at first assumed it 
was a white tailed kite. We got a good look through or scopes and it 
clearly was an osprey.  Not much in the rest of waterbird park. 

Harold Newman
Berkeley