Friends! Tilden Nature Area, Contra Costa, California, US May 3, 2019 8:30 AM - 12:00 PM Golden Gate Audubon Society First Friday Birdwalk, May 3, 2019. Tilden Nature Area, from the entrance to Jewel

Friends! Golden Gate Audubon Society First Friday Birdwalk Tilden Nature Area, Contra Costa County, California, US Jun 7, 2019, 8:30 AM - 11:30 AM Golden Gate Audubon Society First Friday Birdwalk, Ju

Tilden Nature Area, Contra Costa, California, US Aug 2, 2019 8:30 AM - 11:30 AM Golden Gate Audubon Society First Friday Birdwalk, Tilden Nature Area, Berkeley, CA. A walk to Jewel Lake by the road an

The Bewick’s Wren seems to start from one side of the yard and finish on the other! I don’t hear the song that way in Tilden. Has anyone else heard ventriloquist Bewick’s? Any research you know of on

And I say; If you Know it is a Song Sparrow, it is a Song Sparrow. If you Think it is a Song Sparrow, it is a Bewick’s Wren! Best of Boids! Alan Kaplan

Friends! Thanks for your responses. I am absolutely sure this is one bird! Sometimes it is throwing its voice and sometimes not, but it is a single bird that does the few note intro and seems to be in

Friends! A few years ago, Dave B., one of the scholarly First Friday birders, decided that “selasphorus” was Latin for “either one or the other”! Best of Boids! Alan Kaplan

Ashbury Avenue, El Cerrito. May 9, 2020 6:30 PM - 7:00 PM Global Big Day 2020. 10 species seen in the half hour for Global Big Day! Best bird was one Swainson’s Thrush singing in the distance and anot

Friends! May 25, 2020, 6-7:30 pm El Cerrito Highlight was 2 juvenile Western Bluebirds, and seeing one of them fed by Mom. Lesser Goldfinches using the water fountain was also special, three at a time

Friends! This evening (1 October 2020) we had the pleasure of a FOS Hermit Thrush in an Ashbury Avenue yard in El Cerrito. For at least 3 years a Hermit Thrush has overwintered here or nearby and been