I wanted to head out to one of the Wildlife Refuges (Sacramento, Colusa, Merced, etc) this weekend. I'm evaluating a 400mm f/2.8 lens and thought one of the refuges with the snow geese or sandhill's

The YELLOW-BELLIED SAPSUCKER still in same location as previously well described at 3:20PM this afternoon. One Cackling Goose was seen near the dam hanging out with a dozen Mallards, and one male

This morning ~9am, there were ~15 Mountain Bluebirds along Patterson Pass Road at Gate 9, basically the first big pullout on the right in the windfarm. Large flocks of Horned Larks, Lark and Savannah

Vicki's Ferruginous Hawk was visible to the south west, sitting on the ground, from the south end of the Pacific Commons Linear Park. 3 Snow Geese were mixed in with the Canada Geese to the south

Two Hooded Mergansers were seen around 4:30 PM on Jan 2nd at Jewel Lake, Tilden Nature Area. Neither was adult breeding male. Wen Hsu

About 10am, this morning, Maury Stern and I discovered a PALM WARBLER in a small shrub along the Landfill Loop trail in Richmond. The location was about a half mile from the trail head gate entrance

Birders: My husband and I had a quick look at an adult male Blue-winged Teal in the pond at the end of Edgewater Road, Oakland yesterday afternoon before it disappeared behind the reeds. This is

I was here for 3-4 hours Sunday morning. A Eurasian Wigeon was in Ora Loma Marsh. The rarest was 2 Sandhill Cranes flying overhead to the south. This is only the third time I have seen them at the

I was there Sunday afternoon with Eileen and we saw at least 9 Surfbirds. Bob and Eileen

Oops--forgot to sign my name. I've added it below. -----Forwarded Message----- Kate Hoffman Oakland, CA

While doing an annual Briones Regional Park hike today, our large group spotted a Bald Eagle from the Briones Crest Trail. The sighting was brief but close--four of us had binocs and we all saw it.

2012 was a great year! Alameda County along has more than 300 species reported. And there were quite a lot of exciting species sighted from all over other Bay Area counties as well. I started the

At 8 AM Tuesday the continuing White-throated Sparrow was seen where the path goes down to the northern boat dock and the continuing Swamp Sparrow was in reeds past the canoes behind the visitor

Since Jean Richmond and I had no luck yesterday in Lafayette with the Swamp Sparrow, my wife, Rosita, and I decided to take her to Castro Valley to Don Castro today. Jean complained that it took all

This morning there was an AMERICAN BITTERN and 10 river otters in the pond just past the visitor's center at Big Break Regional Shoreline (off of Big Break Road in Oakley). Also, there were 2 CATTLE

Jean Richmond and I attempted to see the Swamp Sparrow at Lafayette Reservoir this afternoon. We never saw it and actually did not see too many other birds, either, in our two hours of birding. We

Around noon today, two sparrows flew out from the bushes by the channel where the Chochenyo meets the DUST Trail at Coyote Hills and landed across the trail in the bushes behind the DUST trail sign.

Jellis, that appears to be like a red-shouldered hawk. Clark

Maury Stern and I traveled, this morning, to Don Castro Regional Park in Hayward, with the intent of finding the much reported YELLOW-BELLIED SAPSUCKER. Upon arrival, we headed down the trail and at

Thanks to those who confirmed the RB Merganser and the ID on the Red-shouldered Hawk