[EBB Sightings] Alameda County Big Year

I've decided to play the game.  After all, I've done it alone the last four years.  I did an Alameda County bird blitz on the first of January netting 118 species but getting nothing that hasn't been reported before. I did see Bob Powers at Berkeley Aquatic Park who informed me he had seen the Northern Waterthrush earlier that morning and I was able to relocated it that morning.
I birded Coyote Hills Regional Park this past Saturday.  Only birds of interest were a Lesser Yellowlegs in with Greater Yellowlegs in the flooded area just past the kiosk where you pay to enter, a drake Eurasian Wigeon was in the north marsh and two White-throated Swifts circling over the hill.
Today, Sunday, I did another county bird blitz netting 111 species.  Today's Highlights:
 
First thing this morning at San Leandro marina on the rocks off the obstacle course was a Glaucous Gull.  At the north side of the marina entrance was a male White-winged Scoter.  This is were this species has wintered the last few years.  I've only find it there about one hour before high tide to one hour after.  At Garrison Point, a part of the Martin Luther King Shoreline Park, there was a male Blue-winged Teal in the channel.  I then drove to Sunol Regional Park to pad my list.  Just a nice assortment of the usual suspects there although upon leaving there were six Hooded Mergansers in the little fenced-in pond on the right just after turning onto Calaveras Road from Geary Road.  I ended the day at Hayward Regional Shoreline Park catching the shorebirds on the out-going tide.  I did relocate the Lapland Longspur (still with the dozen or so Horned Larks) on the way out and at about 1:45 the Tropical Kingbird put in a brief appearance before turning south along the channel and out of sight.  Also, the Peregrine Falcon that has been hanging out at the shoreline did a fly-by.
 
Bob Dunn
San Leandro
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