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Castro Valley, CA
Continued below the orange worm tracks
We went up to Lake Chabot yesterday to look for Great Blue Heron nests and found none. A jogger reported seeing a lone Great Blue foraging up near the boat dock a while before we arrived.
What we did see were
Roughly 60 California Gulls
1 California Towhee
A Whole Buncha Canada Geese
20 Common Merganser, mostly female
1 Great Egret
1 White Pelican
1 Mallard Drake
1 Belted Kingfisher
24 Double Crested Cormorants
2 Pied Billed Grebes
The water continues to be low and full of algae. This may be having an impact on the Herons and be somehow causing them not to nest here this year. Don Castro Reservoir, not too far to the southeast has one Great Blue nest this year (so far).
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