[EBB Sightings] 01-16-NO Tree Swallows at Coyote Hills

Having canceled Monday's planned bicycle trip due to impending rain, Susan
Groves and I rode the Alameda Creek Trail from the BART weir to Coyote Hills
and back to Decoto Rd on Sat afternoon. We stayed only on the
paved (southern) side of the trail, went across the marsh at Coyote Hills to
the Quarry Staging area, then to the visitor center and then back to the paved
trail. If we had gone much earlier we would have ridden out to the bay and probably would have seen a number of shorebirds. As it was, it was dark by the time we returned to Oakland. Surprisingly we saw 45 species on this overcast day. We noted that there
were no Tree Swallows at any of the boxes at Coyote Hills, nor did we see any
anywhere; this is in response to the EBB report that someone had seen them in
central Fremont.The Cinnamon Teals were seen only in the marsh at Coyote Hills, not on the creek. At the Quarry Staging area we saw the WC and GC Sparrows and the N Flicker but did not see the BG Gnatcatcher reported by others. 

Pied-billed Grebe
American White Pelican
Double-crested Cormorant
Great Blue Heron
Great Egret
Snowy Egret
Canada Goose
Green-winged Teal
Mallard
Cinnamon Teal
Northern Shoveler
Gadwall
American Wigeon
Canvasback
Greater Scaup
Ruddy Duck
Turkey Vulture
White-tailed Kite
Red-shouldered Hawk
Red-tailed Hawk
Merlin
American Coot
American Avocet
Greater Yellowlegs
Gull sp.
Rock Pigeon (I)
Mourning Dove
Anna's Hummingbird
Belted Kingfisher
Nuttall's Woodpecker
Northern Flicker, red-shafted
Black Phoebe
Western Scrub-Jay
American Crow
Marsh Wren
American Robin
Northern Mockingbird
European Starling (I)
Yellow-rumped Warbler
Song Sparrow
Golden-crowned Sparrow
White-crowned Sparrow
Red-winged Blackbird
Brewer's Blackbird
House Sparrow (I)