[SBB] CCFS Waterbird Pond, Salt Pond A18 & Stevens Creek mouth

This morning Frank Vanslager and I first checked out the CCFS Waterbird Pond which once again has water (and waterbirds) in it. Weed growth, in and out of the pond, make it more difficult to bird but it looks like the Gulls, Ducks and Sandpipers don't mind. Nothing special there today but now we can at least hope that something will show up. We then checked out the Coyote Creek tidal mud flat (full of water this morning) and Salt Pond A18. The Salt Pond was absolutely overflowing with most of the "Usual Suspects," never seen so many birds in the pond before. Our last stop of the day was the mouth of Stevens Creek where the exposed mud flats were also overflowing (with Sandpipers). Most unusual were the large numbers RED KNOTS, at one point I counted 64 actively feeding REKN on the west side of the creek outlet and there were at least as many more REKN sleeping among BLACK-BELLIED PLOVERS on the east side of the creek outlet (much harder to correctly identify and count these half hidden birds). Earlier on our way out to the bay an adult PEREGRINE FALCON was on one of the power towers.