I spent much of the day today gulling at Miller-Knox Shoreline (at Point Richmond), at the herring run, where there were slightly fewer gulls than yesterday, but still thousands. A really great flock.

Hi everyone. When I was home in the Bay Area last Sunday, I photographed a meadowlark at Ferry Point (Miller-Knox Regional Shoreline in Pt. Richmond) that shows some characteristics of Eastern Meadowl

To me, it seems like it would be quite a stretch to perceive a Poorwill as looking like a Tropical Kingbird... I'm still guessing this was some sort of flycatcher. Being so far out of range, it could

This afternoon I butterflied Crown Beach, where the most interesting encounter was not a butterfly but an unseen apparent Empidonax flycatcher, making "Whit!" calls in the fenced brushy junkyard(?) ar

Seems like a lot of Wandering Tattlers are getting reported right now all up and down our great state of California, and this week I've seen two reports of tattlers observed on flat sand or mud habita

Has the tern been photographed yet? Noah

This afternoon, among probably thousands of common shorebirds, there was a juvenile (or perhaps nonbreeding adult) RUDDY TURNSTONE at Elsie Roemer Bird Sanctuary in Alameda. Bird numbers here have bee

This morning I stopped by the tiny, shady poplar grove behind the Chevy's in Emeryville (on Access Rd., at the "base" of the Emeryville Marina peninsula). The first bird I heard, then saw, was a first

Migrants continue to be many but with poor diversity in the East Bay. Probably the oddest bird this morning at Lake Merritt was a nervous BAND-TAILED PIGEON flying between treetops in the community/bo

I just had what might have been a Eurasian accipiter circling over my Oakland neighborhood. If I'd have remembered to empty my memory card earlier today I would have nailed it, but my card was full an

I made my first visit of the season to Oyster Bay Regional Shoreline in San Leandro today. Access is much curtailed; much of the hilltop and area overlooking the landfill, including the trail leading

It was a beautiful, quiet cloudy fall day at Lake Merritt, the kind of California fall day I'd almost forgotten could exist anymore after spending the last two years in Nebraska. Birds were everywhere

This morning I met up with Scott Baron, a Pennsylvania birder visiting the Bay Area, at Arrowhead Marsh in Oakland. The RIDGWAY'S RAILS were really putting on a show, stumping around on the mud at low

I've spent a couple of rainy afternoons birding the herring run at Miller-Knox (Point Richmond) the last couple days. A swarm of probably about 1000 gulls are attending the herring run; so far no clea

I had slacked off on checking the CDFW Herring website in the past week, and just today noticed that they reported a Point Richmond spawn over a week ago. I'm guessing this was "the big one" that occu

A quick late-afternoon visit to Oyster Bay Regional Shoreline today (Mar. 9th) yielded a stunning 1st-cycle, probably female GLAUCOUS GULL with the gull flock on the landfill rooftops, seen relatively

I'm here at Franks Dump with Don Pendleton, and a brilliant breeding adult RED-NECKED STINT just put in a brief appearance before a male PEREGRINE scared all the shorebirds. Happy Peeping! Noah

Here are photos of the Red-necked Stint that was in Frank's Dump (Hayward Shoreline) this evening: https://www.flickr.com/photos/99231652@N07/albums/72157684579991960 High tide is the time to visit th

If anyone's looking for the Stint this afternoon, there were a couple other interesting birds there yesterday evening to keep an eye out for... First off, beware a LEAST SANDPIPER with a very Stint-li

I made a quick mid-day stop at Elsie Roemer today, where a number of birders were still getting good scope views of the RED-NECKED STINT. The stint has become territorial around "his" rock (straight o