Around 11:00, Nancy Christensen and I had a female Great-Tailed Grackle on the creek bank across from the five palms at the south end of Lake Elizabeth in Fremont Central Park. Stephanie Floyd Fremont

Mid-day today, I devoted some time to sorting through dozens of crowned sparrows in the fennel on the east side of Quarry parking lot at Coyote Hills in hopes of finding the Clay-Colored Sparrow. The

This morning, Rich Nicholson and Nancy Christensen led a field trip for Ohlone Audubon from the Quarry Staging area out the No Name Trail at Coyote Hills RP. In the pond across the road from the Quarr

Phil and Pat Gordon asked me to report for them that a Pine Siskin came to their feeder in Hayward yesterday. Stephanie Floyd Fremont

Willow Flycatchers - two of them - continue in the willows/poison oak/fennel across from the outhouses at Quarry lot. Stephanie Floyd Fremont

Around 10:30 this morning, Jerry Ting refound the Magnolia Warbler in an oak in front of the visitor center. The bird then flew to the alder next to the visitor center door where Gail, Harjeet, Jerry

I went out to Don Edwards NWR (Thornton Ave near Highway 84) at an 8' high tide this afternoon. Plenty of shorebirds were in flooded La Riviere Marsh including at least one Lesser Yellowlegs among man

Things are picking up. On this windy afternoon, a Black-Throated Gray Warbler was vocalizing as it moved through the branches of the oaks near the picnic table by the Hoot Hollow sign on Quail Trail a

At noon today, three Western Kingbirds were vocalizing and flycatching from the eucalyptus, cottonwoods, and willows at the southwest end of Lake Elizabeth near the five palms. Stephanie Floyd Fremont

Bob Richmond led a group of 25 of us on an Ohlone Audubon field trip to Frank's Dump West at the Hayward Shoreline today at high tide. Many shorebirds were on the exposed mud flats including Willets,

Mid-day today at the corrals across the creek from the parking lot at the end of the road in Sunol RW, a Western Wood-Pewee was flycatching from the barbed wire fence and feeding two fledglings that w

The Cattle Egrets at Lake Elizabeth appear to have hatched at least two babies. The nest is snugly hidden in a leafy tree, but with a scope zoomed all the way I could make out movement below the adult

On this morning's Ohlone Audubon field trip, we had several Yellow Warblers, a Warbling Vireo, and more than one Pacific-Slope Flycatcher in the trees along the paths by the ponds at Niles Community P

This morning, a photographer named Phoo and I watched the two Cattle Egrets on Duck Island at Lake Elizabeth actively nest-building in the egret/heron rookery. One made repeated flights across the sou

Today's Ohlone Audubon field trip turned into a "progressive" birding outing as subsets of our party moved from place to place seeking spring migrants. We started in a hard, cold wind at San Leandro M

A Wandering Tattler is bobbing along near the water's edge about 3/4 of the way out to the end of the north side of the rocky island off the parcourse at San Leandro marina. About 10 Least Terns and a

This morning I ran into Rich Nicholson at Garin RP in Hayward. We walked up the trail from the northernmost parking lot, west of the creek, and found a calling Cassin's Vireo in the oaks by the Arroyo

I ventured out from the Visitor Center at Hayward Shoreline this morning to look for the Glaucous Gull that's been seen near the Least Tern colony sign (and elsewhere at the shoreline). Didn't find th

A Great Horned Owl was on the nest in the remaining tall tree in Hoot Hollow at Coyote Hills Regional Park this afternoon. Yay! Stephanie Floyd Fremont

Some nice sightings this afternoon at Coyote Hills Regional Park on this fine first day of spring. I started at the Quarry parking lot, where the male Northern Harrier was perched low on the branches