I had to make a quick stop at the office today - and the Skimmer spectacle from the Emeryville mudflats between my office block and I80 was amazing. At 4 pm on a falling tide the skimmer flock was

There were nearly 400 avocets in the Charleston Slough of the Baylands reserve yesterday (Santa Clara County, near Palo Alto). My first time there so I don't know whether that's unusual. - Fred

True for Albany Mudflats as well. Ed -- Edward Vine Lawrence Berkeley National Laboratory Building 90R2002 Berkeley, CA 94720-8136 Phone: 1-510-486-6047 Email: elvine@...

Jan 17 We are seeing numbers as well as variety. There were over 100 American Avocets on the edge of Meeker Slough. Two days before there were 200+. I have not seen these numbers in three years

With the tide going out after lunch, there were a good variety of shorebird along the Bay Trail. Black-belied Plovers, Marbled Godwits, Snowy Egrets, Common Goldeneyes, American Wigeons, Willets and

I spent a little time at the east(?) end of Lake Merritt near the pergola looking through the ducks there for anything other than Scaups, Buffleheads and Ruddy Ducks. A few Common Goldeneyes were

I wanted to capitalize on high tide and early morning light at the Emeryville Marina, especially the high tide roost. The roost was, as always, packed with dunlins, willets, and marbled godwits. Jim

I visited the Lake Merritt outflow channel today at lunch and the first bird I saw was the male tufted duck floating under me on a bridge from Laney College. As Mark R, the bird’s finder stated, it

Saw a Greater White-Fronted Goose hanging out with the Canda Geese at Crab Cove Park in Alameda. It was in the picnic area that is past the end of McKay Street and to the right.

This morning at Booker T. Anderson Park in Richmond, I ran into a singing Orange-crowned Warbler that seemed consistent with the ssp. sordida, which occurs primarily in Southern California.

or rather Tuftless Duck, an eclipse male found this 9am at the Laney College estuary, where I work. I was getting catalytic convertor guards put on for the upcoming semester and went to check out the

Ring-necked Duck at Lake Anza photo. https://flic.kr/p/2mWzFs6 Claude Lyneis cmlyneis@... https://www.youtube.com/bhsvideodad https://www.inaturalist.org/observations/lyneisfilm

After all the rain this fall, Lake Anza looked a little better than last year when it stopped flowing in June, but has a ways to go. Around 2 pm on a clear afternoon, there were only a few birds

This morning I looked out the back window of our house in the 700 block of Keeler and saw a Cooper’s Hawk on the deck railing. It took me some time to unpack my Nikon, but then it landed on the

There was a 'Western' Flycatcher at Berkeley Aquatic Park this morning in the bog about midpoint in the park. About 8:45 a.m. Rusty Scalf Berkeley, CA --

I took a quick walk around the natural pond around 11:00 this morning. Most surprising was a Cooper's Hawk in the trees on the West side of the Pond and a flyover sharpie. Jim Roethe

Walt D and I met in the park this morning and he had a 5-heron day, for me it was 4, and together we had a 2-merganser day. It was the common waders seen by Walt; he had a Great Blue Heron, in the

In the slough to the east of the Landfill Loop trail I saw a male bufflehead the back half of whose hood was white streaked just about vertically with gray. The demarcation was sharp and the two areas

The eBird Trip Report link below uses new functionality rolled out by eBird just in time for the CBC’s. It is a very nice way to drill down on the data from our January 2 count day:

Today I spent a little while birding the town of Port Costa, and then checking a few spots in Richmond. I've actually never birded in Port Costa before besides driving McEwen Road for Rough-legged