Re: [SBB] Phalaropes at Dumbararton / Edwards NWR
- Subject: Re: [SBB] Phalaropes at Dumbararton / Edwards NWR
- From: "Garrett Lau" <[[email protected]]>
- Date: Tue, 5 Sep 2006 01:37:33 -0700
- Delivery-date: Tue, 05 Sep 2006 04:38:02 -0400
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This morning (Monday, September 4), I drove out to the Dumbarton Bridge frontage road. There were over 1000 phalaropes by the parking lot at the end of the road. My best pictures were of juveniles, but there were also many adults, and they all looked like Red-necked Phalaropes. My photos are here:
I went to the EEC in the afternoon. The gate was locked, so I couldn't drive all the way to the parking lot, but my walk was rewarded by my first ever sighting of a Yellow Warbler. Unfortunately, my photo is not good enough to post.
--Garrett
On 8/5/06, Andy Pedler <[[email protected]]> wrote:
To add to what Ron mentioned, I birded the frontage road from around 11 to noon today (Saturday).
In amongst the group of several hundred WILSON'S PHALAROPES were tens of RED-NECKED PHALAROPES. Another group of probably 20-30 RED-NECKED PHALAROPES was further down the road, close to the base of the bridge (second-to-last pond). There were many BROWN PELICANS flying around and one was sitting in the pond with the WILLETS, MARBLED GODWITS, and AVOCETS.
Scanning the shorebirds in the last pond before the bridge produced WESTERN, LEAST, and PECTORAL SANDPIPERs, along with two SEMIPALMATED PLOVERs.
Interestingly, I could see no birds whatsoever in the bay.
Andy Pedler - Newark
Ron Wolf <[[email protected]]> wrote:
There were about 300 WILSON'S PHALAROPES on one of
the ponds along the south side of the Hwy 84 on
the eastern side of the Dumbarton Bridge late
Saturday afternoon. Access to the dead-end frontage
road is through Don Edwards NWR. (The frontage
road is now open after being closed to vehicles
since late April.)
This flock is especially accessible at the moment.
We were using the car as a blind and were shooting
photos out the window. The phalaropes would come
within 25 feet. During the middle of the day,
photo conditions were marginal. The birds were
backlit and the area was windy. I expect that photo
conditions should be excellent very early tomorrow
morning.
One of the other ponds along the south side of the
frontage road had attracted many hundreds of
marbled godwits, willets, dowitchers and avocets.
At Coyote Hills, there was a flock of about 300
white pelicans that was constantly breaking into
smaller groups, moving between different waterways,
and recombining. There were pelicans in the air
over the marshes at Coyote Hills almost continuously
all afternoon.
The flock of 30+ white pelicans previously reported
on the pond north of the highway on the west side of
the Dumbarton Bridge was still there late Saturday.
-- Ron Wolf
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