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

Decided to go look for the Parasitic Jaeger this morning. Stopped at Pt. Emery on the way. From 10:15-10:45 I had great looks at Black Oystercatchers and Black Turnstones along with Willets, Western

This morning I found a tan-striped White-throated Sparrow along the Bay Trail at Point Isabel. The bird was north of the Rydin Road parking lot, about halfway along the fence between the bay trail and

Today at the shoreline - Lesser Goldfinch - This year they are much more common than in previous years. Rather than being seen 1 or 2 times a year, they have been seen many times this

I probably should have posted this yesterday. I went a short distance on Mines Rd. Monday morning, the 25th. I saw the pair of Golden Eagles, a lot of Western Bluebirds in puddles and a lone male

Hi. I went back again to Crown Beach, Alameda today, and refound the cooperative vireo in the trees around the pond, and this time I had my scope and took some photos through the scope. The vireo is

It was a very big day for me, one I've been waiting decades for. Forty years ago, when I first started sailing on SF Bay, there was no eelgrass to be found anywhere in the bay, and the only place I

on a bike ride today from approx. 11:30 a.m. until 1:00 p.m. i began at union city boulevard and the alameda creek trail. after jumping up on the bay side of the bayview trail saw a pair of kestrel

I headed to the pier after work yesterday to see if anything was moving. All of the loons that were present a few days ago have seemed to move on. I did however find a COMMON MURRE flying out

I birded the West Winton area of the Hayward Regional Shoreline this morning before work, from about 0630-0745. I did not detect any owls or rails at Cogswell Marsh. A juvenile COOPER'S HAWK seemed

Hi everybody. I like to "babysit" the good birds I find, re-finding them whenever I can, so I went back today to check on my vireo at Crown Beach/Washington Park. The "SOLITARY" VIREO

At least three pairs of beautiful WOOD DUCKS were seen today by me and my friend Pat Doughty in the creek behind the parking lots on Olympic Blvd at Pleasant Hill Rd. The ducks are very shy and

While hiking on Mt. Diablo today about a half mile below the main peak on the north side of the mountain Carol, Leslie and I came upon about 50 Cedar Waxwing's in a couple of trees. These were the