Friday, January 03, 2014

SF sunset from Emeryville

San Francisco from Emeryville at low tide at sunset on a spare the air day.

Black turnstone

Arenaria melanocephala

A flight of dunlins

Calidris alpina
There were a couple hundred dunlins working the edge of the water as a very low tide was developing with the early crescent moon. There were western sandpipers mixed in with them, too.

Ring-billed gull

Larus delawarensis

Western Sandpipers



Calidris mauri
Emeryville bayfront

Whimbrel

Numenius phaeopus