Today we went for a short walk in AQUATIC PARK in Berkeley, CA. It is right next to Interstate 80 so it is not the quietest park, but it is a good place to see birds close to home. I tried some bird photography, which is certainly not my specialty. I was using a 70 to 300 zoom with a 2x converter. All photos were shot at iso 800 and handheld so they are not very sharp. Favorite birds of the day were the Belted Kingfisher and Red-breasted Mergansers.
Click Read More to see a list of the eighteen birds we identified. (Well we didn’t try to do the gulls and weren’t sure which scaup.)
Aquatic Park Birds seen 1/2/11
- Bufflehead
- Canvasback
- Coot, American
- Crow, American
- Duck, Ring-necked
- Egret, Great
- Finch, House
- Goldeneye, Common
- Grebe, Pied-bill
- Gulls
- Hummingbird, Anna’s
- Kingfisher, Belted
- Mallard
- Merganser, Red-breasted
- Phoebe, Black
- Scaup
- Sparrow, White-crowned
- Sparrow, Gold-crowned
Natural History Wanderings 
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