Date: 12/26/25 12:27 pm From: lavin_fara via groups.io <pdunten...> Subject: [southbaybirds] Looking for storm waifs
I went to Shoreline Lake this morning to see what the storms might have brought in. Answer, a Pelagic Cormorant on the platform next to the kayak polo goals. I then got distracted counting Coots, to avoid entering an unsavory X for the count in eBird. And, of course, to keep tabs on the local population numbers (they seem to be doing just fine). All that is by way of saying, when next I looked, the Cormorant was gone, whether in the lake or heading back to the coast I couldn't say. The other sighting of interest were the two Black Oystercatchers, copulating on the little island in the lake. If they do it again on or after January 1st, they'll be an item in the California statewide Bird Atlas project.
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