This morning I saw and photographed an Ash-throated Flycatcher in the wooded area of Cesar Chavez Park. The bird flew off, seemingly to within the nearby trees, and wasn't located in the following ten

It is a little cooler than I really like, I started wearing my gloves when I first left the house. The Nuttall's Woodpecker babies are loud enough I could hear them when an adult came near the nest.

At 6:45am this morning I encountered 2 mountain lions at the start of Black Pt Trail on the Globe Lily side of the small ravine. Gorgeous but much too close for me, maybe 50 meters and even closer to

On 5/1/2020 7:31 PM, Hilary Powers wrote: Lyla Arum caught part of the encounter on her phone: https://www.facebook.com/hilary.powers.16/videos/2886075981507787/

To view Fred Safier's list from this morning, check this website: https://ebird.org/region/US-CA-013/activity?yr=all&m= Hugh B. Harvey Walnut Creek

Just after 7 AM, I saw an email from Fred Safier that he had an Olive-sided Flycatcher. It was at the Seven Hills Ranch Road area near Walnut Blvd, Cherry Lane and the concrete creek channel. It

This morning I was surprised and happy to watch a Swainson's Thrush and a Western Tanager together at my fishpond waterfall. Overhead, a newly fledged Downy Woodpecker was calling its parents who

It would seem that the White-breasted Nuthatches have fledged from the gnarly oak on the west side of the large, mostly natural pond. I heard them all around and saw them flying, but they must have

I should have also mentioned that any sightings of these color-banded Ospreys should also be reported to the Bird Banding Laboratory (https://www.pwrc.usgs.gov/BBL/bblretrv/) so that it will be

Looks like the email address is obscured. The address is: ospreysciencedata AT Goldengateaudubon DOT org.

As Judi Sierra reported, Ralph Pericoli and I observed a male Osprey near Pt. San Pablo this morning that had a blue auxiliary band on its right leg in addition to the standard USFWS band on the other

Ashbury Avenue, El Cerrito. May 9, 2020 6:30 PM - 7:00 PM Global Big Day 2020. 10 species seen in the half hour for Global Big Day! Best bird was one Swainson’s Thrush singing in the distance and

This morning a pair of Black-headed Grosbeaks showed up in our yard. While I was watching them come and go to the feeders and bird bath, a FOS male Western Tanager flew in and landed in a small tree

Through last weekend there was a decent movement of Hermit Warbler through the county, and similarly with Swainson's Thrush, but throughout the week movement died down. Yesterday early morning the

This morning Tony Brake saw and photographed the return of one of the  GGAS Richmond nest's banded  2018 osprey offspring near San Pablo Bay.  A

I walked to the top of Vollmer peal this evening from the house. Just below the summit, a group of 8 birds flew over - calling jip! jip!....My reaction - Huh, no way, is it?...Yes!!! - Red

Dear Lee and others, I wrote a paper in Western Birds in 2007 that compared recent atlas and other sources in the nine San Francisco Bay area counties with Grinnell and Wythe's summary

I got out for a short walk today around mid-day in Wildcat Canyon. Best bird was a male Hermit Warbler along Wildcat Creek Trail about halfway between the intersections with Belgum Trail and Bonita

Yesterday I saw and photographed a pair of Red Crossbills on restricted EBMUD land (no trail access, sorry) in the conifers on the east side of the San Pablo Reservoir. The pair, one male and the

There was a spectacular showing of male and female Western Tanagers in Walnut Creek this morning (9:30 am) right along the Iron Horse trail near San Miguel Park. I thought it worth noting. I have