Natural History Wanderings

We went birding at the Emeryville Shoreline today. It was high tide and the shorebirds were roosting on the rocky shoreline next to the road.  There were very large numbers of Marbled Godwits and Willet with some Whimbrel, Western Sandpipers, Black Turnstone, Surfbird and Dunlin mixed in. It was the first Surfbird I have seen in a few years and would have missed the ID if I had not shown a picture to Rusty Scalf from Golden Gate Audubon. We identified 29 species. Also seen were Painted Lady and Monarch Butterflies and a Harbor Seal. Native Plants in bloom, most likely planted, were Gum Plant, Ceanothus and Zauschneria. Click read more to see today’s bird list

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Emeryville Shoreline Bird List
Oct 22, 2017 2:00 PM – 3:30 PM 1.6 mile(s)
28 species

Mallard  2
Horned Grebe  1
Pelagic Cormorant  1
Double-crested Cormorant  X
Great Blue Heron  1
Great Egret  1
Snowy Egret  1
Black-crowned Night-Heron  2
Black Oystercatcher  2
Whimbrel  10
Marbled Godwit  X
Black Turnstone  X
Surfbird  X
Dunlin  X
Least Sandpiper  X
Western Sandpiper  X
Willet  X
Ring-billed Gull  X
Western Gull  X
Forster’s Tern  3
Elegant Tern  X
Rock Pigeon (Feral Pigeon)  2
Black Phoebe  1
American Crow  X
European Starling  X
Yellow-rumped Warbler  X
White-crowned Sparrow  X
Song Sparrow  1
California Towhee  1

View this checklist online at http://ebird.org/ebird/view/checklist/S40077903

This report was generated automatically by eBird v3 (http://ebird.org)