The weather was...uh..."spirited" for yesterday's Ohlone Audubon CBC. Conditions prohibited us from driving out the levee roads to check the salt ponds, so we valiantly slogged out the No Name Trail

Eighty three birders participated in the Eastern Alameda County CBC on Friday Dec17 th. 144 species reported with three exception species under review. Under review are: - Red-naped Sapsucker,

I apologize for not posting a milage marker in my original post, yesterday. Below is a email to a fellow birder who requested the location. I have a Google Earth view if you'd like. Ken

Took a quick run up to Patterson Pass late this morning. I saw 3 Mountain Bluebirds, several Western Meadowlarks, 2 American Krestels, 4 Red-tailed Hawks, a couple of mixed flocks of blackbirds,

<kayrules@...> wrote: These two species can be easily confused. Have a look here: http://fog.ccsf.edu/~jmorlan/nov02.htm A key difference between the dark Ladder-backed illustrated in

Ron Thompson 10/17/10  P. 316 in Sibleys Guide was used for ID. It is clearly buffy on forehead & buffy with streaks on the lower side as shown. The side of the head is much whiter as in the picture.

Hi all, Rich Cimino and Jeff Miller put on a great CBC today. Excellent organization, turnout, and results. Travis Hails and I covered Livermore just north of 580 betw. Fallon and Livermore

Seen daily for a week in backyard on Lido Drive in  Livermore.   Ron Thompson 12/16/10

This afternoon about 4:00 the female LONG-TAILED DUCK was still south of the Berkeley Pier. Quite a ways out, hard to find even with a scope. While standing at the end of the pier, the duck was

Hi birders: My wife Barbara saw and heard a couple of Evening Grosbeaks this morning around 10:30am. They flew into the top of a conifer near the intersection at Park Hills Rd / Woodside Rd. / The

The female LONG-TAILED DUCK was still present south of the Berkeley Pier this morning around 10 am. Look due south about a third of the way out the pier - more than a quarter mile away, so a scope is

Doug Vaughan, Doris Kretschmer and I spent this morning scouting Tilden Regional Park for Sunday's Oakland CBC. The best bird of the morning was an Empidonax flycatcher along the fire road between

I was at Lake Merritt yesterday and found some odd combination ducks: a shoveler/goldeneye mix maybe, an eared grebe with yellow eyes, another odd eye hybrid, and a couple other oddities (goose

Yesterday I went to Lake Merritt, hoping for a Hooded Merganser, which I never found. I don't think one has been reported from there yet this year, although a female was there last December. The

Rich Nicholson and I previewed Sunday's CBC today. Our count circle includes part of Coyote Hills RP and part of Don Edwards NWR, Ardenwood Farm, and a lot of territory on either side of Hwy. 84 west

One of the American Bitterns who frequented the Pacific Commons Linear Park marsh last winter was back this afternoon on the edge of the pond closest to the industrial park. This is the first time

Seen at the shoreline today - Ring-necked Duck - 1 male seen in a marsh near the Interpretive Center. I have seen them in less than half the years I have been going to the shoreline. Sora - 1 in a

Near 11AM the Long Tail Duck was observed more to southwest from the far end of the Berkeley Pier. The LTDU was seen in a raft of Scoter's, Grebe's, Loons, Scaup and other Ducks. Actually if you

Hugh, I am unable to post on EBB. Could you send this info? "The East Contra Costa bird count on 12/14 has already had a post by Ted Roberston re: their group's 110 species day. Of note for the

I walked out the Berkeley pier this morning to see if anything was moving after the rain all day yesterday. I made it all the way out to the end of the pier without noticing much of anything worth