[EBB Sightings] Re:Palm Warbler in Emeryville /Berkeley Aquatic Park

Saturday afternoon around 1:15, the Palm Warbler was in the same spot  
previously reported, foraging on the ground, bobbing its tail, with a  
Yellow-rumped Warbler.  I was able to get quite close for a good look. This  was my 
first time spotting a Palm Warbler in CA, after seeing so many in Georgia  
this past fall. The location was at the western edge of the new Hollis-Doyle  
Park along Hollis Ave., in among the new bushes between 61st & 62nd  St. 
Yesterday and today at Berkeley Aquatic Park ----several pairs of Gadwalls  
and at least 6 Black Crowned Night Herons in the trees at the Southern most 
 pond.  The area was very birdy with Bushtits, Goldfinch, a 
Robin, a Ruby-crowned Kinglet and several Yellow-rumped Warblers.  I  hope 
this habitat does not get destroyed with Berkeley's plan for getting  rid of 
the "dens" in the mature habitat 
described in the Gull.  Remember Berkeley's fiasco with their  unauthorized 
dredging of the large lagoon creating the huge pile of contaminated  sludge 
which is still along side the lagoon in birding habitat.
Also, in the large lagoon were two pairs of Red-breasted Mergansers  
swimming across the middle toward the West where there were  large  groups of 
Black-necked stilts and Avocets roosting (near the pile of  sludge).  Lots of 
other ducks ,also.
Good Birding, Ed Tanovitz, Emeryville