Greater Yellowlegs

* Birds Greater Yellowlegs

Yellowlegs at Work

December 12, 2018December 11, 2018 Mosey2014 Tringa melanoleuca

In the extreme low (minus 0.5) tide on December 5, half a dozen Snowy Egrets and about twice as many

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* Birds Greater Yellowlegs

Yellowlegs in August

August 23, 2018August 14, 2018 Mosey2014 Tringa melanoleuca

Yellowlegs sometimes show up in the North Basin in winter. I’ve never seen one in the summer. This August morning,

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* American Avocet American Coot American Crow American White Pelican American Wigeon Belted Kingfisher Birds Black Oystercatcher Black Phoebe Black Turnstone Black-bellied Plover Black-crowned Night Heron Black-necked Stilt Brown Pelican Bufflehead Burrowing Owl Canada Goose Clark's Grebe Common Goldeneye Common Loon Double-crested Cormorant Eared Grebe Eurasian Wigeon Forster's Tern Great Blue Heron Great Egret Greater Scaup Greater Yellowlegs Horned Grebe Least Sandpiper Long-billed Curlew Mallard Marbled Godwit Mew Gull Northern Pintail Red-throated Loon Ring-billed Gull Ruddy Duck Snowy Egret Spotted Sandpiper Surf Scoter Turkey Vulture Western Grebe Western Gull Whimbrel White-tailed Kite Willet

North Basin: The Video

February 12, 2018May 1, 2019 Mosey2014 1 Comment Actitis macularius, Aechmophorus clarkii, Aechmophorus occidentalis, Anas acuta, Anas platyrhynchos, Ardea alba, Ardea herodias, Arenaria melanocephala, Athene cunicularia, Aythya marila, Branta canadensis, Bucephala albeola, Bucephala clangula, Calidris minutilla, Cathartes aura, Corvus brachyrhynchos, Egretta thula, Elanus leucurus, Fulica americana, Gavia immer, Gavia stellata, Haematopus bachmani, Himantopus mexicanus, Larus canus, Larus delawarensis, Larus occidentalis, Limosa fedoa, Mareca americana, Mareca penelope, Megaceryle alcyon, Melanitta perspicillata, Numenius americanus, Numenius phaeopus, Nycticorax nycticorax, Oxyura jamaicensis, Pelecanus erythrorhynchos, Pelecanus occidentalis, Phalacrocorax auritus, Pluvialis squatarola, Podiceps auritus, Podiceps nigricollis, Recurvirostra americana, Sayornis nigricans, Sterna forsteri, Tringa melanoleuca, Tringa semipalmata

The North Basin is the body of water between Cesar Chavez Park and the Berkeley mainland. When I first started

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* Birds Greater Yellowlegs

Greater Yellowlegs

January 28, 2018January 21, 2019 Mosey2014 2 Comments Tringa melanoleuca

This Greater Yellowlegs joined the gathering of other birds at the southwest corner of the North Basin as the tide

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* Birds Greater Yellowlegs

Great Yellow Legs

December 29, 2017January 21, 2019 Mosey2014 0 Comments Tringa melanoleuca

The minus .07 low tide Friday afternoon brought out several kinds of birds who make their living by pecking for

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* American Wigeon Birds Black Turnstone Extreme Tides Greater Yellowlegs Mallard Marbled Godwit

Mud Is a Magnet

December 15, 2017January 21, 2019 Mosey2014 1 Comment Anas platyrhynchos, Arenaria melanocephala, Limosa fedoa, Mareca americana, Tringa melanoleuca

The negative low tide at 4 this afternoon (a minus 0.14) exposed yards of mud in the North Basin and

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