In my backyard in Alameda there is a tan-striped White-throated Sparrow in a flock of crowned sparrows. Chris Bard Alameda

Water birds are really beginning to arrive and/or pass through Richmond Bay and Meeker Slough. Today we saw a very large raft of Western grebes, with a number of ruddy ducks interspersed further

I was a little bit late arriving at the park today, but found a Western Meadowlark on the north ball field with 3 Killdeer and several Starlings. Hoping to find Tracy Farrington, I headed around the

Today, during a late morning/early afternoon outing to Contra Loma R P we saw a Loggerhead Shrike along the entry road. Other notable sightings included: Hermit Thrush Virginia Rail (heard

A couple of new ducks were seen on the large, mostly natural pond in Heather Farm Park this morning. A female Ring-necked Duck was swimming in the middle of the pond between the island and the wooden

A dozen pine siskins flew in yesterday to my feeders (actually, blew in with all the wind?), rapidly fed on black oil sunflower seeds, drank water and flew off within five minutes. Do we have to

On the Quail trail about 20 feet up the hill after Hoot Hollow today there was what I think was a young leucistic White-crowned sparrow associating with other White-crowned sparrows. It had orange

The MDAS field trip to Hawk Hill scheduled for tomorrow October 14 is being cancelled due to predicted poor air quality. We are being cautious of health concerns due to all the fire smoke. Sorry to

The GGAS 2nd Friday walk at Sibley Volcano Reg Park this morning was surprisingly good. I say surprising since we had the same dystopian gloom at the outset as everyone else in the region.

No signs of the Field Sparrow from the sun rise to 11:00 this morning. There are still birders there looking for it. Some highlights in the area from this morning include Chipping Sparrow, Lincoln's

Got the dates wrong. Should read 10/9-10/11. Good birding, Logan On 10/13/17 12:58 AM, Logan Kahle logan@... [EBB_Sightings] wrote:

Hi all, Managed to sneak out to Richmond a few times, with mixed success. 10/10 In the immediate aftermath of the first wave of fires I had a brief opportunity to check my new favorite West county

All, Didn't realize this had already been posted. Sorry for the redundancy. Logan On 10/12/17 10:48 PM, Logan Kahle logan@... [EBB_Sightings] wrote:

Hi Bob and all, Just thought I would mention this (amazingly) represents the second county record, the first photographed at Helen Green’s feeder in Berkeley 15-16 November, 2005. Great find,

Bob et al. Having grown up with Field Sparrow in the Northeast, this bird looks so dull and gray that I think one can safely identify it as the western subspecies (aranacea). In the east, they

Previous record was 11/14/2005 - 11/15/2005. http://www.californiabirds.org/queryDatabase.asp?species=field+sparrow&county=ala&STARTDATE=&enddate=&partial=on&sort=date On Fri, 13 Oct 2017 03:31:41

The Field Sparrow reported today at Gomes Park in Fremont is not the first county record but it is the second county record. Helen Green found the first in Berkeley a while back. It was a CBRC review

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(Acting as the messenger) Bill Chen found and photographed a FIELD SPARROW this evening at Gomes Park in Fremont, a small park due east of Lake Elizabeth in Fremont. This may be a first county record

At Contra Loma R. P. this morning, we saw a Golden-crowned Kinglet. The bird was seen near the bridge to Loma Island. Other noteworthy sightings included: Ruby-crowned Kinglet House Wren Fox