This afternoon the CASSIN'S VIREO was in Washington Park, which is immediately adjacent to Crown Beach. It was at the west end of the line of trees right in the middle of Washington Park, with a mixed

I visited Roberts Regional Park this morning and walked around the picnic area around 9am it was not all of that birdie but there were at least 2 VARIED THRUSHES and 1 EVENING GROSBEAK giving the

Hi all, Both Pt. Isabel and Garretson Pt. were fairly quiet at midday today, with the following highlights: --Pt. Isabel-- HORNED GREBE - 10 (I was following up on a 10/28 eBird report of 8) CLARK'S

Forgot to mention two Cackling Geese at Middle Harbor. They had fairly dark breasts and lacked white neck rings, so they looked more like minima than leucopareia, but they seemed a little too big and

A few minutes after I arrived at the end of the Berkeley Pier this afternoon, an obliging Parasitic Jaeger flew by right in front of me, passing through the gap between the end of the walkable part of

This morning I had a pair of Red-breasted Nuthatch's in the pines on the west end of the bridge. First time I've recorded Red-breasted Nuthatch at the south end of the lake. Also of local interest

From 11:30-12:30 today I walked around Lakeside Park looking for the Tufted Duck. Thanks to another birder whose name I did not get I was able to finally see it. It was in with a group of scaup and a

This morning a lone Cackling Goose was with about 200 Canada Geese on the soccer lawns north of the lake (access off Stevenson Blvd. at Gallaudet). New Marsh (south of the soccer lawns) is nearly

Hi All,  Today, Oct 29, while Leora Feeney and I were doing our twice a month bird survey at the proposed Alameda National Wildlife Refuge at the northwest end Alameda we found a young Eastern

Dear Birders: Has anyone seen Varied Thrushes in the last couple of days in the Oakland/Berkeley area which we might photograph? Phila Rogers

On a midday visit to the Albany mudflats (next to Golden Gate Fields) I was surprised to see four Eurasian Widgeon. Lots of other birds as well. Dunlin are clearly in, in force. One Whimbrel, one

I just wanted to thank all of you who responded to my request yesterday evening. I received so many excellent suggestions and information. You are such a wonderful and helpful group! Makes me feel

It's truly strange. The formatting of my message was plain text as always, and Yahoo is posting my messages to other lists, of which I'm in a gracious plenty. Joseph Morlan suggested it might be a

I forgot to mention, (and I can't believe I forgot this), that we saw a knot of six Cackling Goose on the lawn near Fairyland. They had rounder heads, I thought, than Canada Goose, and of course, much

Thanks to Hilary and Ruth for another great birding adventure! FOS Glaucous-wing Gull Wing, very nice close up view, right in back of the Nature Center. This beautiful gull was chattering away with a

Hilary's Lake Merritt report didn't make it to my mailbox or the group archives. Perhaps Yahoo was misbehaving or perhaps the message was not formatted in the requisite plain text. In any case, the

Yes, the Tufted Duck was with the early scaup raft down near the El Embarcadero fountain. I posted a brief message titled "Lake Merritt Today" right after the walk. The TD wasn't alone - two female

One of my students reported that the GGAS group at Lake Merritt found a male TUFTED DUCK at the north end of the lake today, Wednesday 10/27. He said that they would report it, but it does not seem

Hello, I am going to be in the SF Bay Area and East Bay this coming weekend and next weekend from Texas, and have a long list of birds I'd like to see. I'm wondering if you have any ideas on where I

Today around 11AM my friend Johanna pointed to a yellow bird in the Oak. I thought it was Townsend's warbler but on seeing it through my lens it turned out to be Hermit Warbler. The bird was right in