[SBB] New Chicago Marsh area

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All,
 
This morning Frank Vanslager and I first checked out the pond at State  and 
Spreckles in Alviso where the STILT SANDPIPER (resting  on an island) was one 
of only a few Sandpipers  present.  We then circumnavigated New Chicago Marsh,  
clockwise, starting on the railroad tracks at the Environmental Education  
Center entrance road, to the southern edge of Salt Pond A16 and back along  the 
entrance road to the RR tracks.  Birding was fairly slow, however, we  did 
count 22 SNOWY PLOVERS on the northern edge of the impoundment located  north of 
the Alviso Marina and west of the RR tracks leading into Alviso.   There were 
still plenty of Gnats on the edge of the pond A16 and several  "peeps" (mostly 
LESA) on the dike feeding on them but there was, of course,  no Buff-breasted 
Sandpiper.  Other birds seen included a single  unidentified Phalarope in 
A16, five BROWN PELICANS (including four adults with  several AMERICAN WHITE 
PELICANS on the southeastern most island in A16),  three to four BLACK-BELLIED 
PLOVERS (marsh near the center),  a WESTERN  FLYCATCHER (wild garden near the 
center), a very pale AUDUBON'S  WARBLER (in a tree along the canal), an adult 
PEREGRINE FALCON in a power tower  along the EEC entrance road, and at least 
three LESSER YELLOWLEGS (at widely  separate areas in the marsh). 
 
Take care,
Bob Reiling   
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