[EBB Sightings] Tree swallows have arrived in Fremont

At 11:00 today, I found an FOS tree swallow circling the tree swallow boxes over New Marsh at Lake Elizabeth in Fremont. By noon, three others had joined in.  The loggerhead shrike looked on with interest.

Fourteen greater white-fronted geese and two "Aleutian" cackling geese were with hundreds of Canada geese on the soccer lawns north of New Marsh. The snow goose must have moved on.

Twenty-three black-crowned night herons were on Duck Island, where a dead double-crested cormorant continues to spin in the breeze on a limb of a tree, kite string around its neck.  According to park staff, the limb is too high up and too far out over the lake for the bird to be safely cut down. A red-tailed hawk was half-hidden in the branches of the same tree.

A belted kingfisher was on a branch over the dock at Duck Island.  Three American white pelicans were dozing on the southwest side of the island.


Stephanie Floyd 
Fremont