Went chasing Noah's reported BAGO, but as usual the million MAGOs ended up giving me same eye-strain like in previous check. Dipped on the BAGO :) However, i spotted this slender black & white Tern

Hi bird friends, This afternoon I observed (2) Red-necked Phalarope at Lake Merritt. eBird indicates that this is the first record of the species there. Here is the list with photos:

I've added some photos of the apparent BAR-TAILED GODWIT to my eBird list... https://ebird.org/view/checklist/S59188688 I'm pretty sure now that this is a Bar-tailed and not Hudsonian or

The unusual godwit that was reported with distant photos on Facebook yesterday, was back in Franks Dump this evening along with hundreds of Marbled and Willets. It’s definitely one of the exotic

We have been seeing an adult and a young Common Gallinule at the mostly natural pond in Heather Farm Park.  This is in the Ygnacio Valley of Walnut Creek.  Also there for the last week or so are two

I saw it and it was all over eBird and Ebb for a little while. Have pics and videos too. Becky Flanigan, Oakland Sent from iPhone. Please excuse typos and grammatical errors!

Sycamore Grove Park south of Livermore. It was quite a celebrity. Did you miss this message? https://groups.io/g/EBB-Sightings/message/12346 But much of the discussion was on the discussion list

Who in the world has ever spotted a Blue-Gray Tanager in Alameda County? None I know of. -- Mike Feighner Livermore, California, Alameda County http://www.linkedIn.com/in/michaelfeighner -- “Be

Blue-gray Gnatcatcher?LivermoreMike FeighnerSent from my Verizon, Samsung Galaxy smartphone

Bummer about the photos missing. Another good reason to post on EBB too. Stuff won't be disappeared!

eBird protocol for most introduced species (with a handful of exceptions) is for reviewers to invalidate the record with the flag "introduced/exotic". This removes the records from all public

When viewing all of my photos in Ebird, I noticed that Blue-gray Tanager is missing. This is the bird seen at Sycamore Grove Park/Arroyo Entrance this year. I found the following: It appears on

Hi Teale, I think the mystery tern is a subadult Forster's Tern, maybe two years old? The reason is that the mask actually shows through as being darker than the nape in one photo. But more

Hello, Today I went back to Elsie Roemer Bird Sanctuary. After looking unsuccessfully for rare shorebirds with Noah Arthur, I started examining terns. There were far fewer today than there have been

Santa Clara Valley Audubon Society was treated to an incredible tour of the historic Eden Landing Salt Works and Snowy Plover survey area by SFBBO’s resident expert Ben Pearl this past

I found a Northern Pygmy owl at about 9:30 a.m. yesterday along the Riche trail. It was being verbally harassed by an Orange-crowned warbler, 2 Western bluebirds, an Oak titmouse, a Hutton’s vireo,

The skimmer is now in the same location as noted above. Derek Heins

Thanks to Albert Linkowski for the tip on the Black skimmer at Waterbird Regional Preserve! We went this morning and saw it as well. It was still at the southern tip of the large grassy island, at the

Today, 14th August. 2019 in the evening I found juvenile Black Skimmer at Waterbird Regional Preserve in CoCo County (in Pacheco east of Martinez) As you might known, this is a rare bird for county

A photo of the Common Tern can be seen on my ebird checklist: https://ebird.org/view/checklist/S58945114 When I saw the Tern, it was on the peninsulas southeast of the observation platform, about in