This was the first time I visited Elsie Roemer Bird Sanctuary and it compares favorably with Pt Isabel where I normally walk. I finally got photos of Semipalmated Plovers, Black Skimmers and a

I have had a female Grosbeak feeding at my feeder off and on for over a month. I live above Heather Farms park in Walnut Creek.

I have noticed a drop in the numbers of Mallards on the large, mostly natural pond in Heather Farm Park. Aside from the fact that the water is really low, the question of where the Mallards are going

For what it's worth, I think a trio of Black-headed Grosbeaks flew over my apartment building in Oakland (just west of Highland Hospital, east of Lake Merritt) this past Monday in the early evening

Around 5:30 tonight I was walking a quarter mile east of Grizzly Peak on Wildcat Canyon Road and on a roadside tree that has bunches on small blue berries, a Black-head Grosbeak and several

On Sunday Aug 15 Golden Gate Audubon to Elsie Roemer and Crab Cove in Alameda, Brandi Russell spotted a Spotted Sandpiper on the rocks at the end of the spit looking out towards Ballena Bay. In full

Hi, Today I birded several spots in the southern East Bay with an emphasis on shorebirds. My first stop was Coyote Hills, I arrived around 9 AM and spent 4.5-5 hours there, covering a little over

It turns out the young Wood Ducks have not disappeared, though they have made themselves scarce the last couple of weeks. Two were seen a couple of days ago by another observer, and one was seen by

Not so quiet in the quietest month of the year at Lake Merritt: two Belted Kingfishers chasing each other from island to island and up and down the lake with that extra-loud metallic

Of local interest, it seems that perhaps White-tailed Kites nested at the Summit Reservoir site by the corner of Grizzly Peak and Spruce along the Berkeley/Kensington line. This evening 1-2 you g

I made a quick loop of Bradford Island today just to assess how much damage the fire that started August 2nd had done, birding only incidentally. The South side of the island remains almost completely

Sixteen Audubon members met this morning outside a restricted area of the Eden Landing Preserve for a guided walk with SFBBO biologist, Ben Pearl. He led us on a fabulous tour of the closed area.

Hi East Bay Birders, Emma Cox sent me pictures yesterday (August 10) of a sickly Northern Fulmar floating offshore of Albany Beach in Alameda County. While she was observing it, the bird was

This morning along the ridge trail above the Claremont Regional Preserve we saw an early Townsend's warbler. We hoped to find the Hermit warbler(s) and Nashville warbler reported by Teale Fristoe on

Hi all, Today (August 10th), the juvenile semipalmated sandpiper and pacific golden-plover continued at Frank's dump. The plover revealed itself quite quickly amongst one of the large roosts of

Hello East Bay Birders, Yesterday (Saturday), we took our Master Birding class out to Frank's Dump at Hayward Regional Shoreline to study shorebirds. We timed our visit for afternoon high tide when

Following an early Olympic soccer final, I was just arriving to the park as Ted was leaving. He and I spoke briefly and he told me he had a Spotted Sandpiper on the island, maybe 20 minutes before

August 4 at 10:30 am nine white pelicans were flying in Vee formation over the Lafayette Reservoir. They may have been on the water earlier but did not land when I saw them. These are not FOS pelicans

My neighbor Faith Martinez has posted a couple of excellent daytime photographs of a Great Horned Owl on eBird. https://ebird.org/checklist/S92711278 Fred Safier

Ted met me just after I arrived. We saw someone fishing on the west side of the pond, and I guess Ted said something to him. When I came back after a side trip, the illegal fisherman was walking to