[EBB Sightings] Hooded Mergansers, Dublin

Steve and Carol Lombardi
Fri Dec 25 16:52:13 PST 2009

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We got a few late Christmas presents today while biking the Iron Horse Trail 
through Dublin:

We saw a pair of Hooded Mergansers in the creek that parallels the trail.
The birds were upstream of the concrete spillway, about 1/2 mile north of 
Dublin Blvd. where the creek and trail both fork.

We also saw the more usual habitues there: Mallards, Coots, Common 
Mergansers, and a Kingfisher.

An immature Golden Eagle circled above us where the trail crosses Dublin 
Blvd next to Camp Parks and opposite the BART station. A Loggerhead Shrike 
perched on the fence in the same spot.

All in all, a very nice bright Christmas day.

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