[SBB] Palo Alto Baylands and vicinity: roosting shorebirds

[Bill Bousman <[[email protected]]>]

Folks:

This morning and early afternoon I went from the Palo Alto Baylands 
to the Mountain View Forebay counting roosting shorebirds for the 
PRBO/SFBBO survey associated with the high tide.  Shorebirds were 
pretty much as expected.  A pair of RING-NECKED DUCKS were in the 
Palo Alto estuary.  They are not often seen on salt water.  In the 
outer Palo Alto FCB, I found an ad. male EURASIAN WIGEON.  Further in 
on Adobe Creek, not far from the bleachers, I saw a single male 
BLUE-WINGED TEAL.

There are few roosting shorebirds on this route compared with the 
many thousands seen on a lowering tide along the Bay.  I noted four 
concentrations over a hundred birds:
1. outer Palo Alto FCB (point of land): Marbled Godwit (141), Willet 
(138), Whimbrel (7), Long-billed Curlew (4)
2. Adobe Creek on flood deposits: dowitcher spp. (699), Least 
Sandpiper (16), Greater Yellowlegs (3), Willet (1)
3. south island in Charleston Slough: Marbled Godwit (124), 
Black-necked Stilt (15), Willet (12), Am. Avocet (7), Long-billed Curlew (1)
4. inner Mayfield Slough: dowitcher spp. (250), Least Sandpiper (4), 
Greater Yellowlegs (1)

Bill Bousman
Santa Clara County records compiler 



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