[SBB] Ruff and Pectoral Sandpiper CCFS

[Matthew Dodder <[[email protected]]>]

All,

I visited Coyote Creek Field Station (CCFS) Shorebird Pond this morning to look for the American Golden Plover. Pati Rouzer and Patty McGann, who were just leaving as I arrived mentioned they had seen the bird a few minutes earlier in the area previously reported. When I seached the area I could not relocate it. I did however see a RUFF (thanks Emily!), PECTORAL SANDPIPER and WILSON'S SNIPE. Also present were multitudes of Dowitchers, BLACK-NECKED STILTS, AMERICAN AVOCETS and a few dozen DUNLIN and LEAST SANDPIPERS. Two LESSER YELLOWLEGS were foraging along the edges, and two SORAS were calling in this area. I later got a look at one of the Soras (thanks Dave!). A COOPER'S HAWK made a brief appearance as did LOGGERHEAD SHRIKE and GOLDEN EAGLE.

Things were quiet at the Environmental Education Center (EEC) in Alviso, but I did locate a HOUSE WREN in the coyote bushes near the outhouse and the PEREGRINE FALCON was perching on the power tower along the entrance road.

Note: Coyote Creek Field Station and the adjoining Shorebird Ponds are open only to members of SFBBO. Their website is: http://www.sfbbo.org/ 

Matthew Dodder
http://www.birdguy.net 

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