[EBB Sightings] Hayward shoreline

I took a walk from the interpretive center up to the first bridge 
after work today.

Semipalmated Plovers (several, at least one was displaying what 
appeared to be a territorial display, puffing himself up, taking "the 
stance" and vocalizing a call that I haven't found yet, but is 
closest to the chittering on the Peterson's Western Bird Song CD but 
extended and with a long churring/purring at the end)

Cliff Swallow (some stuffing their beaks with mud while fluttering 
their wings ready to take off)
Barn Swallow (some would land on the ground near the Cliff Swallows, 
but just sit there doing nothing)

Gadwall (including 3 then 4 females flying around together and 
vocalizing, one plucked at another's wing or tail, but they stayed together)

Canada Goose (a pair with 7 goslings whose bodies looked like big 
fuzzy supermarket chickens; the parents hissed at a couple of 
squirrels who got too close, and when I passed them on the way back 
there was another adult pair with them)

Snowy Egret
Black Crowned Night Heron flyover
Willet
Long Billed Curlew
various peeps
Black-bellied Plover (heard)
American Avocet
Marbled Godwit (many vocalizing a lot)
Forster's Tern
Mallard
Ruddy Duck
Northern Shoveler
Northern Harrier
Red-winged Blackbird
European Starling
Savannah Sparrow (also singing)
Song Sparrow (heard)
one Zonotrichia, I think Golden Crowned but ducked behind a bush too fast

I didn't see Whimbrel like I did on 4/18 but they could have been there.

Debbi Brusco
Hayward