While I had been in Europe my wife had gone to a new place on San
Francisco Bay and had run into an introduced but countable species -
Northern Red Bishop. We went to the place - the Sunnyvale Water Pollution Control Plant on Monday
August 1st but had no luck with this bird in the ditch than runs from
the car park to the salt pans on the bay. I will need to return to look
for this potential lifer. Instead we had lots of gulls (California and
Ring-billed), Forster's Terns as well as post-breeding Black-necked
Stilts and American Avocets and a hundred American White Pelicans. But
the day was memorable for maybe 1000 phalaropes, mostly Wilson's but
including at least 40 Red-necked Phalaropes.
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| Red-necked Phalarope |
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| Wilson's Phalaropes |
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