Hi all. Is there someone that is planning to look for the Williamson’s Sapsucker tomorrow (Thursday) that would be willing to take me along? Due to medical reasons I’m unable to drive for a while. The

That’s an immature Red-tailed Hawk. There’s a couple of them hanging around my neighborhood too (Oakland hills). Very vocal, screaming “feed me!, feed me!” all day. Johan Langewis Oakland

The Lewis’s Woodpecker continued today at the same location at Valle Vista, seen by a number of birders, as well as non-birders that got a peek through my scope. It moved from one location to another,

I relocated the Lewis’s Woodpecker found by Bill Cone at Valle Vista on Sunday June 20. I saw it on top of a phone pole near the horse corral on the Rocky Ridge Trail this morning at about 9:30 AM, 37

Common Merganser. Note the white chin. Johan Langewis Oakland

This morning a male Rufous Hummingbird visited my feeder. The back was completely orange, not a fleck of green to be seen. No Allen’s in my yard yet. Also, a Chestnut-backed Chickadee started nest bui

I birded Valle Vista Staging Area in Moraga today with Madeline Brane. We tallied 52 species including an amazing gathering of 31 Wilson’s Snipe. Upper San Leandro Reservoir is dropping significantly

I was sitting on my deck this morning, when at 8:35AM I heard distant calls of Greater White-fronted Goose. I looked up, and almost directly overhead I could see a faint jagged line at high altitude.

Looks like Cooper’s Hawk to me. I noticed the lack of a white supercilium. And the upper tail feathers have the characteristic Cooper’s pattern. Johan Langewis Oakland

Hi Hugh, The Bar-tailed Godwit was found at high tide (~9:30AM) today by the Golden Gate Audubon field trip among the roosting shorebirds near the Royal Coffee on Powell Street. So it’s still hanging

I spent about 3 hours at Valle Vista in Moraga today, saw/heard 59 species. Included was a single Orange-crowned Warbler feeding on the white blossoms of a fruit (wild plum?) tree near the trail leadi

I was slow reading my email, so I got a late start. Skyline Gate is only a few blocks from my house so I rushed over there late today. I ran into some other birders, but no luck on the Williamson’s Sa

Looks like a Tropical Parula. Did you see wing bars? Johan Langewis

I just discovered an Allen’s Hummingbird nest in a redwood tree in my back yard. Other activities include: Bewick’s Wren nesting in a box on front porch Nuttall’s Woodpecker nesting in dead pine in ba

At about noon today there were three immature Golden Eagles that flew over my house at high altitude, heading north. I live south of Shepherd Canyon, two blocks below Skyline Blvd in Oakland. Johan La

I have a nest cam box that the Chestnut-backed Chickadees use almost every year, sometimes 2 broods. A few years ago I sadly watched a clutch of week old hatchlings starve to death. Sometime later I f

What a coincidence - yesterday there was a male Rufous Hummingbird at my feeder in the Oakland Hills. They must be migrating through. Johan Langewis Oakland

What species is this? Anna’s Hummingbirds start breeding in California as early as November, so this would not be unusual. Allen’s Hummingbirds start breeding in February, so this is also a possibilit

I went birding today at Valle Vista in Moraga, saw 48 species. At about 11 AM, looking west from the horse corral, over the hills, I noticed a lot of Common Ravens riding a thermal. Looking higher I k

The FOS Townsend’s Warbler appeared in my yard this morning. The Allen’s Hummingbirds are gone, but I still have at least 8 Anna’s, draining about 16 oz of sugar water a day out of my feeders. When th