On lower Panoramic Hill in Berkeley, just north of Claremont Canyon, I have seen large numbers of crows on and off for the past 20 or 30 years. Along with hawks, they weren't here when I first moved

I had my first-of-season White-throated sparrow just now in my yard near Wildcat Canyon Park in Richmond. It looked to be a tan-morph. On Monday I had a Lincoln’s sparrow in the yard too, first

We see them heading north every evening around dusk. And I have seen them heading south just before sunrise. Hundreds of crows. It appears they are going to different overnight roust locations;

Who knows about crows, e.g why here, why now? I've lived in the hills on the Berkeley/Oakland border for most of the last fifty years. We see a few crows per month - no great numbers. But

It's been a long day. The location for the Williamson's Sapsucker was incorrectly cited. Dominik Mosur and I saw the female WIlliamson's Sapsucker at Redwood Regional Park accessed from the Skyline

It's been a long day. The location for the Williamson's Sapsucker was incorrectly cited. It's at Redwood Regional Park at the Skyline Gate near the parking lot out on the East Ridge Trail.

Hi All, Dominik Mosur and I came across a female Williamson's Sapsucker at Sibley Volcanic Regional Park. It was near the parking lot on the trail out to Round Top. One relatively clean document

We had not see the Tropical Kingbird for about a week, but it was present this morning near the wooden railing on the parking lot side of the big pond. We also had two Double-crested Cormorants

Today's GGAS field trip spotted a Palm Warbler at Middle Harbor around 12:30/1 pm. It was on the first rock jetty picking at food and pumping its tail. We had good shorebird diversity today,

Despite the crowds and cars parked everywhere, the birding was actually quite good today. Between a baseball tournament and an End Alzheimer's walk, the park was thick with people. We also thought

Yesterday (10/16/2018) afternoon, there were 2 male Yellow-headed Blackbirds feeding in the pumpkin field with large group of Tricolored, Req-winged, Brewer's Blackbirds and Brown-headed Cowbirds.

My wife Wen and I visited Tilden Regional Parks Botanic Garden yesterday (Sunday). Around 12:10pm, we saw a Townsend's Solitaire. It was perching on a Santa Cruz Island Ironwood (Lyonothamnus

We went for a morning walk from the Briones Rd trailhead to Sindicich lagoons, and had two Sora in the upper lagoon. They would come out of the cover on the edge of the lagoon for a brief time period,

Today at the shoreline -- 9 White-faced Ibis flew north near the Interpretive Center. 1 Tufted Puffin also flew north out on the bay about 2:10. This is the second county record that I know about. The

A couple of us from the central county decided to try for the Palm Warbler reported yesterday by Emilie Strauss. Not being too familiar with the area, Cheryl Abel and I started from the little trail

Tom Maloney and I had a fall plumaged Lapland Longspur along the Richmond shoreline along Meeker Slough. The longspur remained 30 second before lifting off and flying south toward Pt. Isabell. With

I bought colorful mobiles at the garden store and hung them from the eves of the roof. This works really well.

This am there was a Palm Warbler in the fennel patch at Point Isabel located south of the junction of Isabel and Central Avenues--aka Costco Warbler Thicket or Pt. Isabel Seawatch (eBird hotspot).

Yesterday at 11:30AM there was a White-Throated Sparrow foraging just outside the northwest corner of the EBMUD Valle Vista Staging area. Photo:

While contemplating window treatments to avoid more bird collisions, I watched a Ruby Crowned Kinglet in a very old buggy plum tree this morning, along with a flock of Bushtits in the same tree.