Date: 11/22/25 9:24 pm From: Sam Zuckerman via groups.io <samzuckerman...> Subject: [EBB-Sightings] Pacific Golden Plover at Hayward Shoreline
Coming back from Japan after three weeks away, I found I had missed the excitement of a Barred-tailed Godwit at Hayward Landing. Fighting off jet lag, I hurried to Hayward this morning in hope that the godwit was still around. No success, so I walked to Frank's Dump to see what I could find. It was high tide and an enormous throng of Dunlin, Black-bellied Plover, Willets and other shorebirds were packed onto the sandbars that offered footing to roosting birds. I scoped a large concentration of plovers and saw a brown-orange anomaly significantly smaller than the Black-bellied. Later, when I went over my not-very-good-quality photos, it was evident that the orangey speck was a different plover than the others surrounding it: golden upperparts, face and chin, with some white; brownish cap; light brown flanks ... all good for Pacific Golden. Here's the checklist: https://ebird.org/checklist/S285689567 The photos are poor, but they do show coloration and stature, the features that caught my eye in the first place.The plovers were roosting near the southern shore of the dump about 200 yards from the Bay Trail, roughly 37.652581, -122.154175.
