From 25 Feb 2008:

Ring-billed Gull
Silhouetted Northern Shovelers
Not-silhouetted Northern Shovelers 🙂
Various birds at dusk
Sunset birds
Location: Palo Alto Baylands
Observation date: 2/25/08
Number of species: 30
Canada Goose – Branta canadensis 5
American Wigeon – Anas americana 15
Northern Shoveler – Anas clypeata 50
Green-winged Teal – Anas crecca 30
Mallard – Anas platyrhynchos 75
Canvasback – Aythya valisineria 3
Bufflehead – Bucephala albeola 2
Common Goldeneye – Bucephala clangula 2
Ruddy Duck – Oxyura jamaicensis 10
Pied-billed Grebe – Podilymbus podiceps 1
Western Grebe – Aechmophorus occidentalis 1
+ American White Pelican – Pelecanus erythrorhynchos 1
Great Egret – Ardea alba 1
+ Black-crowned Night-Heron – Nycticorax nycticorax 1
American Coot – Fulica americana 70
Black-necked Stilt – Himantopus mexicanus 10
American Avocet – Recurvirostra americana 50
Willet – Tringa semipalmata 10
+ Long-billed Curlew – Numenius americanus 2
+ Short-billed/Long-billed Dowitcher – Limnodromus griseus/scolopaceus 35
Ring-billed Gull – Larus delawarensis 50
Western Gull – Larus occidentalis 5
Glaucous-winged Gull – Larus glaucescens 2
Rock Pigeon – Columba livia 25
Anna’s Hummingbird – Calypte anna 1
Black Phoebe – Sayornis nigricans 3
+ Bushtit – Psaltriparus minimus 15
White-crowned Sparrow – Zonotrichia leucophrys 3
Golden-crowned Sparrow – Zonotrichia atricapilla 6
Red-winged Blackbird – Agelaius phoeniceus 5
+ = year bird
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Such a great list of birds and I REALLY love the photo with the avocets, waterfowl and sandpipers! Great trip and I always love seeing the birds in your area!
Thanks, Tom! Wish I got a better view of the peeps, as whatever they were, it was a year bird, but I just had my 300mm lens w/me, and that wasn’t nearly close enough to definitively ID them. By the odds, they were probably Western Sandpipers, but that’s no way to go about bird identification.
wow, another awesome set! the silhouetted shovelers are breathtaking!
Thanks, Ankush!