Earlier this morning on the UC Berkeley Peregrine Falcon nest, there were only two eggs. But at 11:38AM I saw clearly a third egg, just as Alan Fish correctly predicted last night at the GGAS

Hi folks, I've wondered how the peregrines nesting in UC Berkeley's campanile can tolerate the tremendous "gong" of the bells as they chime out the top of the hour daily from 8 a.m. to 10 p.m. Do they

Friends! I returned from the GGAS talk by Alan Fish on the falcons and looked at WebCam 1. Annie the female was near the eggs and then covered them for incubation. This was at 2133hrs, Thursday

Past two days have heard the Nutall's call or pounding on the tree in front of my house. Today a female Nutall's was back to inspect the tree and peck around.   Everything seems to be running later

Carolyn, On the Facebook page for the Cal Falcons one of the posts has this: 'Falcons, like most birds will wait until they have a full clutch of eggs before they start to incubate. This ensures

Is anyone else watching these falcons? Would you like to have a discussion about what we see? Right now, I”m wondering if the eggs are being kept warm enough, since both parents have left the eggs

Birders, While I was driving north on 680 yesterday, I notice several large white birds hanging out in McNabney Marsh. Most were the relatively common American White Pelicans, but one bird was by

Thank you Anne! The second egg appeared sometime this morning, I think just before 8 am! The cam lets you go back up to 4 hours, and you can see the eggs at 8:00, 9:41, and 10:48, and 11:18. It looks

Thanks to Marty Lycan, who pointed me toward the correct flock of Golden-crowned Sparrows, I was able to see this rarity that was first reported by Tracy Farrington. This was at 10 AM between showers,

This is a little out of our area, but I can’t seem get it to post on CV Birds and it’ll be of interest to East Bay birders as well... On my visit to the Koster Rd. gravel pit pond in Tracy today,

The Peregrine Family nesting on the Campanile has laid it's first egg of 2019. You can watch the nestcam at https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=EaJuC-rxVAQ. The outside camera is here:

Eric Goodill and I explored the Dumbarton Pier today, an area neither one of us had been to before, mostly because a small sliver of the levy trail falls within Eric's "5-mile-radius", and we wanted

Visited Castle Rock Rec Area and Heather Farms today. Met up with Don Pendleton at Castle Rock. At least 50 Golden-crowned Sparrows were at the north end of the baseball field near the pool restrooms

A little after 8, this morning, the HARRIS'S SPARROW was re-found by myself and a pleasant group of eight other birders. It was seen quite well in and around the grassy ball field just beyond the

This morning an immature male Black-chinned Hummingbird appeared in our yard. The bird was vigorously hawking insects from high locations in the yard and aggressively protected the feeders. This is

And here is the link to the eBird checklist with pictures of the Harris's Sparrow. Tracy Farrington deserves credit for picking this bird out of a flock of about 25

I will posting pictures shortly along with an associated eBird checklist. John Missing

I wish to thank Fred Safier for posting the HARRIS'S SPARROW, on my behalf. I was unable to do so as reception was extremely poor. I've had some requests for directions and a few details regarding the

Tracy Farrington asks me to post his sighting of a Harris's Sparrow in the Castle Tree picnic area, across from the ball field lawn in Castle Rock park, Walnut Creek. Fred Safier

This morning, heard the tapping and grabbed my camera and checked. No bird but did hear a distant tap. Then a few minutes later the female showed up and started tapping around the same places the male