Birders: I live on the eastern edge of Berkeley, with Lake Anza in open view directly below our house. My first record of Acorn Woodpeckers at home was on September 30, 2014, a fall/winter irruption y

Hi, East Bay Birders: About 10 am yesterday, February 3, 2021 a very cooperative Townsend’s Solitaire was found in the trees along the entrance to the north parking lot (near Oak Grove, the outhouse)

Hi, birders: About 11:00 am this Sunday morning, Felix Ratcliff found an adult Scissor-tailed Flycatcher at Oakland’s Arrowhead Marsh, in dry vegetation on the east side of the entrance road, near the

EBBirders: Posting as a messenger for Jeff Martin, who can be reached at pelicanday@... if you have questions …. "I saw the Summer Tanager yesterday, Saturday, February 21 at 11:00 am in Claremont

Hi, Bay Area Birders: More than 250 field observers and two dozen-plus feeder watchers took part in yesterday's 79th running of the Oakland Christmas Bird Count, sponsored by Golden Gate Audubon Socie

Birders: Between Teale Friscoe and myself, the spot at which Horacio and Mona Mena found a Gray-crowned Rosy-Finch yesterday afternoon was monitored from shortly after 7:00 am until 11:00 am today ….

Birders: About 3:30 this afternoon Mona and Hortacio Mena found and photographed a Gray-crowned Rosy-Finch in Contra Costa County. It was in Tilden Regional Park, on the Seaview Trail, near the Upper

Hi, Birders: The Red-necked Grebe that Tony Brake found on July 10 continued in the little cove at the foot of Sandpiper Spit shortly before 3:00 pm yesterday, and again today at about 11:30 am. Here’

Birders: About 12:45 pm today, the adult male Summer Tanager appeared in the oak tree described yesterday by Bob Toleno and Juli Chamberlin. It is located at 37.8639434, -122.2432396 on the Stonewall

East Bay Birders: The Ferruginous Hawk seen Sunday on north San Pablo Ridge that was chosen as best bird of the Oakland CBC was also — we learned the next day — seen and photographed on Sunday from th

East Bay Birders and others: A Barn Owl over Telegraph Avenue in Berkeley launched Oakland’s 78th annual CBC at 3:30 am yesterday, and birding continued apace until 2:00 pm, when heavy rain convinced

Hi, birders: The immature Northern Shrike that Dan Kopp and Jose Martinez found and photographed on November 1 continued this morning, near the marina at 7000 Orwood Road. I saw it from the levee road

Hello, Bay Area Birders: Registration is now open to all birders for WFO’s Annual Conference in Ventura. There's an excellent lineup of workshops and field trips, including two day-long pelagic trips

Glad you guys saw the bird!! Dave Quady Berkeley, California davequady@...

Birders: Immediately after reading Jim Lomax’s post to the County Birders list serve I headed out the door, forgetting my binoculars in the process. I found a parking place at the intersection of West

Hi, Birders: On 6 March I spent an hour or so mid-day scoping for the male Tufted Duck off the Bethel Island Marina, but dipped on the bird. The diving waterfowl were quite distant, and the sun’s glar

East Bay Birders and others: Sunny skies and diminishing winds prevailed during Oakland’s 77th annual CBC yesterday. Our preliminary total of 175 species, announced at last evening’s compilation dinne

Hello, Bay Area Birders: This is Golden Gate Audubon Society’s CENTENNIAL YEAR … and we invite you to help celebrate its first century at its biggest year-end event: the 77th annual Oakland Christmas

Birders: Thanks to tag-team information sharing from Stacy Farrington, John Sterling, John Luther, and Chris Carpenter, I was able to enjoy the Eastern Kingbird mid-day today. When last seen, the bird

Birders: Heartened by Tony Brake’s experience on Tuesday, I stopped at Lucretia M. Edwards Shoreline Park in Richmond about 9:30 this morning in hopes a Fork-tailed Storm-Petrel was present. One was,