During a walk this morning at Eagle Ridge Neighborhood Park in Antioch, Nancy and I encountered a small flock of perhaps six Red-breasted Nuthatches. We first heard the birds and then spotted them in

Hey Mark, I'm no expert but your photos look more like a curlew Sandpiper than a stilt Sandpiper to me!Dan Brown,  Sacramento. Sent from my Verizon, Samsung Galaxy smartphone

Hi All, A slightly delayed report on some general migration patterns around Contra Costa recently. Feel free to not read this whole post as it is way too long. (For the Richmond WTP summary skip to

Birders, On an evening walk in Redwood Regional Park on the West Ridge Trail just beyond the Tres Sendas Trail around 6:20pm, was treated to the sound of what I thought to be a Pileated Woodpecker,

Sorry for any inconveniences caused by reporting a long legged, long billed sandpiper at Frank's Dump. I appreciate the e-mail suggestions of Curlew, Stilt Sandpipers and Dunlin and views on the

Here's a quick addition to the Contra Costa migrants; we just had two FOS yellow warblers foraging furiously for half an hour or so in our mature camphor trees, tall silvertip maple, the neighbors'

Currently south of the observation platform working its way north fairly close to the fence. Happy migration, Teale Fristoe Berkeley

Today during an outing to Contra Loma R. P., Nancy and I had very nice extended views of a Pacific-slope Flycatcher hawking insects in a tree near the bridge to Loma Island. In addition, in nearby

That's in Oakland. Seen at about 11:00 am. eBird Checklist - 6 Sep 2019 - Middle Harbor Shoreline Park - 21 species I also looked for Teale Fristoe's Pectoral Sand at Elsie Roemer earlier in the am.

Hi All, This evening I had 3 Common Mergansers fly over downtown Danville heading out of San Ramon Creek, just south of where El Cerro joins Danville Blvd. I have always suspected breeding at this

I spent 7 hours birding several spots along East Bay shoreline in Alameda County. Here are some highlights. Middle Harbor Shoreline Park (Oakland): - continuing BAIRD'S SANDPIPER seen by many

The morning was calm, with a mild breeze, and an immaculate blue sky. The birding, however,was rather quiet. Sightings while hiking up the canyon included a couple of PACIFIC SLOPEFLYCATCHERS, and one

Late this morning I birded the creek corridor from the pedestrian bridge next to the parking lot downstream to the Iron Horse Trail bridge and was delighted to find a number of migrants. Highlights

My GGAS walk today did not spot the Baird's Sandpiper. Due to tides we didn't even really have any peeps until the end of the walk. We did however see a Wandering Tattler on one of the rocky islands

Three of us were in the park this morning and we had some very good sightings.  After reading reports from other locations around the bay, we finally had some Yellow Warblers appear.  We also had a

This morning around 9:30 I was scanning the bay at Point Molate Beach Park when I saw a flycatcher-type sally by a medium sized bird. My first thought was Olive-sided Flycatcher, so I climbed back up

We had the first White-Crowned Sparrows of the season today, one adult and one young. Only one of the many Hooded Orioles we had this season remains and keeps feeding at our feeder. Last week we had

Hi EBBirders, This morning there was a Clay-colored Sparrow at inspiration Point at 7:20AM.  It was in a small migrant/resident flockalong the EBMUD road (permit required) east of the ridge, just

Hello all, Just a quick note that I found what I believe is a blackpoll warbler in the large oak tree in front of the coyote hills visitor's center. Yellow wash on head and breast, weak streaking on

Alan Krakauer is not able to write to East Bay Birds right now, but yesterday he reported to eBird a possible Hooded Warbler in Wildcat Canyon Regional Park.  He and I have communicated and I am