Re: [SBB] New Chicago Marsh & EEC -- no rarities today

[Al Eisner <[[email protected]]>]

On Sun, 26 Aug 2007, Kris Olson wrote:

> I spent some time mid-morning (with many other birders and photographers)
> looking for the Baird's Sandpiper in the New Chicago Marsh and the entrance
> road to EEC. No luck when I left around 1 or 1:30pm.

A few additional notes from this area today....  The trees along Mallard
Slough near the EEC [*] had two Yellow Warblers this morning.  And midday
the impoundment along Spreckles Street near State Street had approximately
50 Greater Yellowlegs, among which I found 4 Lesser Yellowlegs (there
might have been more).  The approximately 45 Wilson's Phalaropes here
may have been the same flock seen earlier along the EEC entrance road.
A young Peregrine Falcon really stirred things up on the impoundment,
but didn't catch anything.

[*] JC:  "EEC" is the Environmental Education Center of the Don Edwards/
     San Francisco Bay National Wildlife Refuge.  (You can see why we
     simply say EEC).  The entrance road begins at the point where
     Grand (Blvd.?) turns into Los Esteros (Road?), just east of
     Spreckles Street in Alviso.  Salt pond A16 is 100 yards behind
     the EEC.  The marsh south of A16 (and northwest of the EEC
     entrance road) is called the New Chicago Marsh -- check out the
     street names in the nearby part of Alviso.

 								Al Eisner

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