On the morning of 8/2, I heard this crying coming from my Hayward back yard. I have not heard this before. I went outside to see if I could get a look, but then I heard feet leave the fence top and

Sorry to say, this is an immature Common Murre, alas. Mark Rauzon Oakland

I'm posting a link to a few photos that Jim Chiropolos took last Saturday of the Murrelet at Hayward Shoreline.   This is not a plumage we could track down on the internet. As noted previously - and

Dear Friends: If I hadn't been co-leading our summer bird walk at the Botanical Garden, I wouldn't have ventured out into this gloomy morning.  But these foggy days are often most dispiriting when

Today, Peggy and I sandwiched some birding in Alameda county around an afternoon visiting a friend. Our highlights included a male RUFOUS HUMMINGBIRD and a first-year male HOODED ORIOLE in the late

I'm afraid my photo didn't load for some reason. Here is a link to the same photo: http://tonybrake.smugmug.com/Nature/CA-Shorebirds/i-kj3BmQC/1/L/REPH-L.jpg A phalarope, presumably the same bird,

At about 4PM today I saw what I believe is a Red Phalarope. It appeared bulky for a phalarope and had a rather stout bill with a pale base. These are rather rare this far inland. Perhaps the recent

When I arrived at Heather Farm at 10:30am, two Green Heron kids were in the nest and one standing near-by. An hour later, one by one they ventured out and jumped to the branches to the right. Just

Friends! An overcast morning for our First Friday GGAS Tilden Nature Area/Jewel Lake (and Loop Road ) birdwalk today, but 26 birders were not disappointed. We had 29 species (including 8 kinds of

This morning I found a pair of Ash-throated Flycatchers just a bit north of the chin-up bars, which are located between the two ponds. There is a dark green, round tree which recently lost about a

Hi all, While we often tend to think of bird populations as relatively static, the sightings here from Laura would have amazed me just a few years ago when I moved away. I birded Miller/Knox often up

Today (Mon., July 30), at Miller-Knox Regional Shoreline in Richmond, I was enjoying the tin-horn-tooting Red-breasted Nuthatches in the pine grove area along the West Ridge Trail, when I heard a

With reference to Jeff Acuff's sighting, I had exactly the same today: 2 Western Tanagers, one male and one female/juvenile type, high in a eucalyptus tree at the North end of Homestead Road in Walnut

This spring I was seeing western tanagers almost daily throughout the month of May in my yard, sometimes in surprising numbers, leading me to wonder if they might nest locally.  Then June came and

Bob Richmond led a group of 25 of us on an Ohlone Audubon field trip to Frank's Dump West at the Hayward Shoreline today at high tide. Many shorebirds were on the exposed mud flats including Willets,

While exiting the park today one barn owl flew west over the south marsh today at 8:27pm. Davor Desancic Fremont

Images: http://allenh.zenfolio.com/p874901109 Yesterday afternoon, the wind was very strong from the west and led to lots of hovering or floating over and near the osprey nest by the adults. This

Last year at this time, I reported 3 SHARP-SHINNED HAWK fledglings in Tilden near the Merry-Go-Round, after first detecting them from home. This year's nest must have been closer to me than last

While mountain-biking near Frank's Dump this morning with Jim Chiropolos around 10am, I spotted a small alcid about 25 yards offshore. Our first thoughts were immature Common Murre but on closer

Mid-day today at the corrals across the creek from the parking lot at the end of the road in Sunol RW, a Western Wood-Pewee was flycatching from the barbed wire fence and feeding two fledglings that