[EBB Sightings] Arrowhead Marsh/MLK Jr Shoreline, 02-05-2005

GGAS Arrowhead Marsh Bicycle Birding Trip
Saturday, February 5, 2005
Trip Report by Kathy Jarrett
>From the East Creek Point Trailhead by the High Street
Bridge, we enjoyed the newly paved trail, and there
was really good birding all the to Arrowhead Marsh,
with Surf Scoters and Egrets main attractions. At
Edgewater seasonal wetland on Damon Slough we saw the
Northern Pintail. We didn�t see any Clapper Rails at
Arrowhead but did see a Sora, a Nelson�s Sharp-tail
Sparrow as well as Marsh Wrens and a Common
Yellowthroat. We rode down the channel of San Leandro
Creek and by the seasonal ponds. We saw the Northern
Mockingbird and the Loggerhead Shrike on the fence
separating MLK Jr. Shoreline EBRP from the airport
long-term parking lot, and it is so very clear that
this is not the spot we want a casino. Burrowing owls
were not seen at all, and it would seem that they are
just not here since the parking lot went in. We also
found the Common (Eurasian) Teal in the pond nearest
the entrance road from Swan Way. It looks almost
exactly like the Green-winged Teal, except that it
doesn�t have the vertical white stripe just forward of
the wing, and its under-tail coverts are a deeper
yellow. 58 birds seen:
Pied-billed Grebe
Horned Grebe
Eared Grebe
Western Grebe
Clark's Grebe
Double-crested Cormorant
Great Blue Heron
Great Egret
Snowy Egret
Canada Goose
Green-winged Teal
Mallard
Northern Pintail
Northern Shoveler
Gadwall
American Wigeon
Canvasback
Greater Scaup
Lesser Scaup
Surf Scoter
Common Goldeneye
Bufflehead
Ruddy Duck
White-tailed Kite
Peregrine Falcon
Sora
American Coot
Killdeer
Black-necked Stilt
American Avocet
Greater Yellowlegs
Willet
Long-billed Curlew
Marbled Godwit
Western Sandpiper
Least Sandpiper
Ring-billed Gull
Forster's Tern
Rock Dove (I)
Mourning Dove
Anna's Hummingbird
Belted Kingfisher
American Crow
Marsh Wren
Northern Mockingbird
Loggerhead Shrike
European Starling (I)
Common Yellowthroat
California Towhee
Savannah Sparrow
White-crowned Sparrow
Red-winged Blackbird
Western Meadowlark
Brewer's Blackbird
House Finch
House Sparrow (I)
Common Teal (Eurasian)
Nelson's Sharp-ta


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kathy jarrett
kathy_jarrett at yahoo.com


		
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