Went chasing Noah's reported BAGO, but as usual the million MAGOs ended up giving me same eye-strain like in previous check. Dipped on the BAGO :) However, i spotted this slender black & white Tern

Hello Birders, I walked around the Skyline gate area at Redwood Regional Park this morning for about 2 hours starting at 9:45. I parked on Skyline near the intersection with Phillip’s Loop trail,

Aaron Maizlish and I check the West County sewage ponds in Richmond, only a few shorebirds were present : 1 Pectoral Sandpiper, 2 Red-necked Phalarope, 2 GreaterYellowlegs, and 19 Killdeer. Graham

Thanks for posting this Graham. For anyone interested, the pectoral sandpiper is still present today. It's on the southern bank of the middle of the eastern ponds. The phalaropes and many killdeer are

We have two continuing Common Gallinules in the large, mostly natural pond in Heather Farm Park, located in the Ygnacio Valley of Walnut Creek.  An adult Pied-billed Grebe was seen again today, and

After missing each other at McNabney Marsh yesterday, Bob Dunn and I managed to arrive within minutes of each other at the West County Wastewater District facility in Richmond this morning.  We

Laptop issues delayed my ability to download photos from a quick stop I made at Middle Harbor Tuesday at 1pm, but when I finally got that issue fixed a closer look led to determination of Baird's.

This morning at about 9:30AM I saw at least three, perhaps as many as five, FOS Townsend's Warblers in the pines on both sides of the Seaview Trail in the Vollmer Peak area of Tilden Regional

There has been some discussion on migration in the east bay this fall. From my perspective, it has been a very good fall with three passerine fallouts so far at my house on the east side below Vollmer

Thanks Jim! Sounds like we'd better go to Vollmer Peak soon. We had two Western Tanagers in Castle Rock's Pine creek canyon over in the Mt Diablo foothills this morning. We like to stake out some of

Yesterday evening, about three hours after high tide, Juli Chamberlin and i found a juvenile Semipalmated Sandpiper feeding on the bay mudflats between Meeker Slough and the 51st St entrance to the

Hey Bob, The straight, decently long bill, rufous scaps, and lack of defined blunt tip to the bill all suggest juvenile Western, not Semipalmated, to me. Good birding, Logan

It appears my first message didn’t send—sorry if it did, here it is again... In 4 ponds nearest to road. Alone with no other peeps, occasionally with killdeer. Photos later. Short bill, no rufous

We just watched  a FOS Townsend's Warbler feeding in our fifty-year-old Redwood at noon. I don't remember seeing a Townsend's Warbler quite this early in the migratory season. Usually we spot them

We were birding with Ethan Monk when he spotted a small peep at the Richmond WTP with the characteristics of either a Semipalmated Sandpiper or Little Stint. At first we were leaning towards

An update... Ethan Begin forwarded message:

The gate to the WTP is locked now. Better luck on Tuesday. Aaron Maizlish

If you call the number posted on the side of the gate, they should open the gate and let you in, if anyone wants to chase today. Ethan

Hello birders, I took a long training hike up Mt. Diablo on Saturday, starting at Mitchell Canyon at 8:30, climbing to the peak via Deer Flat and Juniper Campground, and then returning via Prospect

Sunday afternoon at Frank's Dump, Hayward Regional Shoreline, accessed via Winton Avenue, the first bird I saw was a Stilt Sandpiper in the SE corner of the main pond. The long-drooping bill, long