Yesterday morning I heard a likely YELLOW-BREASTED CHAT about a quarter mile past the Mitchel Canyon gate from the staging area, downhill in the streambed riparian corridor. A long iphone sound record

This afternoon there was a TOWNSEND'S SOLITAIRE feeding on toyon berries just across Reliez Valley Road and outside of the gates of Queen of Heaven Cemetery in unincorporated Lafayette. Good Birding J

Today I had a juvenile yellow-bellied sapsucker in Briones Park. Location: Blue Oak Trail, accessed from the trailhead on Reliez Valley Road. The trail roughly parallels Stagecoach Drive in the Baywoo

Today on the Blue Oak Trail in Briones Park (trailhead at end of Gloria Terrace, Lafayette) there was a LEWIS'S WOODPECKER and a BLACK-THROATED GRAY WARBLER both within the first quarter mail of the t

Albert Linkowski's stilt sandpiper was present today in the early afternoon, as reported, at the West County Sanitation District ponds. Good Birding Jeff Acuff

This afternoon on the trail from the interpretive center, I found seasonal surprises (at least for me, being unfamiliar with this locale): common goldeneye, short-billed dowitcher, and eared grebe. Th

In addition to hoped-for seasonal goodies (Lazuli bunting, western tanager, black-headed grosbeak, migrant warblers, flycatchers), I had two unexpected finds, birds that I associate with Black Diamond

As a backyard birding note, today in Lafayette I've seen upwards of 2 dozen yellow warblers, compared to 8 that I've seen here over the course of the prior 16 years. Good Birding, Jeff Acuff

Previously reported mountain bluebirds (5) remained along Fredrickson, and previously reported bald eagle (adult) remained at the reservoir this morning. Good Birding, Jeff Acuff Lafayette

I am trying to pass along a message from Paul Shorr that he found a redhead among other ducks near the dam at the Lafayette Reservoir today. Paul also saw the swamp sparrow. Jeffrey Acuff sent from my

This morning I found a SWAMP SPARROW in front of the Visitor's Center at the Lafayette Reservoir. The bird was in a mixed sparrow flock in the reeds along the edge of the pavement where the fishing do

Today there was a Heermann's gull at the Miller-Knox pond and a couple of first cycle Bonaparte's gulls at the first wastewater treatment pond accessible from the Wildcat Marsh trailhead off of Richmo

I'd like to thank those who helped identify the female duck as a green-winged teal. Good Birding, Jeff Acuff Lafayette Today at the Miller-Knox lagoon the continuing Eurasian wigeons and red-breasted

Today at the Miller-Knox lagoon the continuing Eurasian wigeons and red-breasted merganser were present. Additionally there was a blue-winged teal, and another duck that I originally took for a female

Just had a flyby across the pond. May be worth keeping an eye open for last years tropical kingbird. Jeffrey Acuff Acuff Architecture sent from my iPhone

This morning, along the San Francisco Bay Trail between Vincent Park and Shimada Friendship Park, I found a POMARINE JAEGER while scanning the bay waters for brown pelicans (which I failed to find the

I should add that there were also 2 red-necked phalaropes on the pond today.

After noticing multiple eBird reports of Wilson's Phalarope at the pond between Waterbird Way and Waterfront Road in Martinez, I went to see what I could find this afternoon. I found and was was able

Yesterday there were two adult PEREGRINE FALCONS that circled fairly low over the park. One was clutching prey, probably a white rock pigeon. It occurred to me that the falcons might be the Castle Roc

Today a clay-colored sparrow was foraging with white-crowns in the bare grassy area leading to the pier. There was also a Say's phoebe and an American pipit. The pond had 13 red-breasted mergansers an