[EBB Sightings] More Fremont Central Park geese

At about 4:20 this afternoon the 14 Greater White-Fronted plus two Aleutian 
Cackling Geese were present.  Also 4 Ridway's Cackling Geese.  I also 
encountered the puzzling group of 5 that I described in my email of the 8th 
(seen on the 6th) -- someone more expert than I looked at photos and thinks 
the three smaller ones might be Aleutian, which seems possible if the three, 
which lack any gular stripe, are related.  On his web site Sibley says about 
Aleutian "nearly always black throat stripe."  (Recall A. R. Wallace and 
variation in natural populations.)

John Cant
Fremont

----- Original Message ----- 
From: "Stephanie Floyd" 
To: 
Sent: Thursday, January 14, 2010 1:47 PM
Subject: [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
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