Arrowhead Marsh, Sunday
Mon, 28 Jun 1999 14:05:29 -0700
From: Courtenay Peddle
Hello folks,
Oops, I meant to post this yesterday.
Here are my sightings from 90 minutes at Martin Luther King Jr Regional Shoreline [in Oakland] from 9 AM Sunday. I'll include the Usual Suspects for those who aren't familiar with the shoreline. Conspicuously lacking is Song Sparrow, which I neither saw nor heard. They are resident, so I assume they're busy on their nests. I saw one Marsh Wren and heard it and three others singing on territory. The Willets are quite splendid in breeding plumage.
Pied-billed Grebe (Podilymbus podiceps)
Double-crested Cormorant (Phalacrocorax auritus)
Mallard (Anas platyrhynchos)
Greater Scaup (Aythya marila)
Snowy Egret (Egretta thula)
Great Blue Heron (Ardea herodias)
Great Egret (Ardea alba)
Black-crowned Night-Heron (Nycticorax nycticorax)
Turkey Vulture (Cathartes aura)
Clapper Rail (Rallus longirostris)
American Coot (Fulica americana)
Marbled Godwit (Limosa fedoa)
Willet (Catoptrophorus semipalmatus) - at least 73 birds
Dowitcher sp. (Limnodromus sp.)
Black-necked Stilt (Himantopus mexicanus)
American Avocet (Recurvirostra americana)
Killdeer (Charadrius vociferus)
Ring-billed Gull (Larus delawarensis)
Glaucous-winged Gull (Larus glaucescens)
Western Gull (Larus occidentalis)
Bonaparte's Gull (Larus philadelphia)
Forster's Tern (Sterna forsteri)
Rock Dove (Columba livia)
Mourning Dove (Zenaida macroura)
Burrowing Owl (Athene cunicularia)
Anna's Hummingbird (Calypte anna)
American Crow (Corvus brachyrhynchos)
American Robin (Turdus migratorius)
Northern Mockingbird (Mimus polyglottos)
Common Starling (Sturnus vulgaris)
Marsh Wren (Cistothorus palustris)
Bushtit (Psaltriparus minimus)
Barn Swallow (Hirundo rustica)
Cliff Swallow (Petrochelidon pyrrhonota)
House Sparrow (Passer domesticus)
Lesser Goldfinch (Carduelis psaltria)
House Finch (Carpodacus mexicanus)
California Towhee (Pipilo crissalis)
Brewer's Blackbird (Euphagus cyanocephalus)
Good birding!
Courtenay Peddle