[EBB Sightings] Rainy Birding in Livermore

Art Edwards
Sat Dec 12 13:42:30 PST 2009

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This morning Vern Bothwell and I defied the weather and birded around Livermore, to be rewarded with many good birds, including the following:

Greater White-fronted Goose - Jack London Blvd w. of Airway/Isabel - 6
Cackling Goose - Jack London Blvd w. of Airway/Isabel - 40
Canada Goose
Mallard
Blue-winged Teal - Saddleback Pond at n. end of Briadmoor - 1 male
Cinnamon Teal
Green-winged Teal
Bufflehead - Springtown Creek
Ruddy Duck
Pied-billed Grebe
Great Blue Heron
Green Heron
White-tailed Kite
Cooper's Hawk
Red-tailed Hawk
Golden Eagle - Saddleback Pond
Kestrel
Virginia Rail - Springtown Creek - heard
American Coot
Killdeer
Black-necked Stilt
Least Sandpiper
Wilson's Snipe - Springtown Creek
California Gull
Ring-billed Gull
Rock Pigeon
Eurasian Collared-Dove - McLeod & 7th - 4; Scenic & Broadmoor - 12
Mourning Dove
Barn Owl - Vintage Ave. in old water tower = 2
Red-breasted Sapsucker
Northern Flicker
Black Phoebe
Say's Phoebe
Loggerhead Shrike
Western Scrub-Jay
American Crow
Marsh Wren  - Springtown Creek
Northern Mockingbird
European Starling
Cedar Waxwing
Yellow-rumped Warbler
Common Yellowthroat - Springtown Creek
Savannah Sparrow
Song Sparrow
Lincoln's Sparrow
White-crowned Sparrow
Golden-crowned Sparrow
Red-winged Blackbird
Western Meadowlark
Brewer's Blackbird
House Finch
American Goldfinch
House Sparrow

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