Sorry, haven't had time to post until now. Yesterday I met up with Bob and Juli Toleno at Lake Merritt, where there were very few gulls and no sign of the target Glaucous. This didn't stop a 2nd-cycle

This year's herring run in the San Quentin/Tiburon area was spectacular -- probably the biggest run I've ever seen (in terms of gull numbers) -- so I'm hoping for a good showing of gulls at the upcomi

Hi everyone. Here are some photos of the (sick) immature that I'm tentatively calling a 'Vega' Gull, found by Albert Linkowski and I at Clifton Court Forebay on Jan. 9: http://www.flickr.com/photos/73

Albert Linkowski showed me around the northwest side of Clifton Court Forebay today (what a great place!), where at first there were relatively few gulls, so we walked to the swamp on the north side o

Today my dad had a meeting in Pt. Richmond, so I had him drive over to Miller Knox to check and see if the gulls were swarming yet (since the herring run started early in the North Bay, I suspected th

Alvaro, Jerry, and everyone else interested in this mind-numbing gull debate: I agree that kumlieni is genetically intermediate between thayeri and glaucoides. BUT I don't think that makes it not be a

Thanks everyone for your continued interest in this bird! Jerry, thanks for refinding the bird and taking such great photos! Stephanie, could you forward this email to Alvaro? I don't think I have his

Hi everyone. Sorry for the short Iphone message earlier... just thought I should get the word out. Gull numbers were high at the lake today, and the birds were milling around a lot. While looking at t

First cycle Glaucous on the boat house now. 2nd cycle probable Kumlien's Iceland just flew off. Photos and more details when I get home. .

WHITE-WINGED SCOTER was still diving actively right along the shore at the parking lot at the end of Mulford Point Drive at 2:30pm. Spectacular looking duck, and a year bird for me! Thanks to whoever

Yesterday, Dave Kiehl and I birded around the South Bay most of the day, but ended up at Lake Elizabeth in Fremont, where there was a huge flock of geese on a lawn on the northwest side of the lake. M

This afternoon John Cant and I gulled Oyster Bay Shoreline in San Leandro, mostly focusing on the large congregation of gulls bathing and loafing on the slough on the north side of the park (I call th

I spent most of my time at Oyster Bay this afternoon looking through the thousands of big gulls coming and going from the slough on the north side, but there were a few other (more interesting) sighti

Hi everyone I can probably say that today was the best birding of my life. I went with the Yolo Audubon's East Bay field trip, led by my friend from Davis, Terry Colborn, to a number of good East Bay

Just had two surprisingly beautiful CAGE CANARIES visit my ground feeding station in with the flock of HOUSE SPARROWS. Both were streaky and sparrow-like with pale yellow tails and a yellow wash in th

This morning, while looking for blackbirds along the east side of Oyster Bay Regional Park, I flushed something that looked like a tiny yellowish meadowlark on the hillside at the northeast corner of

This evening Michael Park, Mark Rauzon, and myself got excellent views of the juvenile RUFF as he foraged along the shoreline between the Crab Cove Visitor Center and concrete jetty (jetty? pier?) jus

Hi everyone. This afternoon I visited Albany Hill Park, my new favorite migrant trap, and had a NORTHERN WATERTHRUSH along the creek on the north side of the park, near the stand of poplars where the

Today there was a beautiful juvenile COMMON TERN in with the FORSTER'S TERNS sitting on rocks in the southwest part of the main lake at Berkeley Aquatic Park, just north of the boat house. The tern ev

Hi everybody. I've been birding the Alameda shoreline (vicinity of Elsie Roemer Bird Sanctuary) a few times lately, during the evening low tide. My very poor shorebirds skills have made this endeavor