At 4 pm today (Thursday, July 18) I had a flypast Parasitic Jaeger on the Richmond shoreline. The bird was trailing a group of half a dozen California Gulls flying from east to west offshore of the Ba

Yesterday (Tuesday, September 4th) I birded Point Pinole Regional Park, following up on Robert Raffel's eBird report of an immature male Rose-breasted Grosbeak. The grosbeak continued Tuesday afternoo

The Buff-breasted Sandpiper continued this morning between 7:15 and 7:45. The bird was visible with a scope from the Bay Trail on the west side of Richmond Parkway between Parr Boulevard and Pittsburg

I birded Bradford Island this morning (Friday, June 15) in search of the Bell's Vireo. The vireo was singing at the previously noted location between 9:30 and 11. Shortly after 11 I and another birder

The Eastern Phoebe continued at Miller/Knox at 7 pm Monday evening, March 19th. The bird was flycatching in the pines between the trail on the east side of the lagoon and the large paved concrete area

​The Eastern Kingbird found by Hugh Harvey continued between 3:30 and 4 this afternoon in Heather Farm Park, Walnut Creek. The bird was in the brushy willow growth on the west side of the lake, near t

A Wandering Tattler was on the gravel edge just west of the pier at Point Pinole Regional Shoreline around noon today. No Common Tern was seen. Good birding, Jeff Hoppes Richmond

Hello all- Yesterday (Thursday, August 4th) I birded Point Pinole Regional Shoreline in Richmond (http://www.ebparks.org/parks/pt_pinole). No sign of the Common Tern that Albert and Logan saw earlier

This afternoon three male Blue-winged Teal were present on the mudflats on the south side of Point Isabel. Scope from the Bay Trail south of the Costco parking lot (facing toward the Albany Bulb acros

At noon today two White-winged Scoters were visible from the fishing pier at Ferry Point in Richmond. Look just to the right of the old pier, toward the orange triangle marker with the number "4." Due

Between 5 and 6 pm this evening (August 30th), the Northern Waterthrush continued in the spillway at Jewel Lake in Tilden Regional Park. Good birding, Jeff Hoppes Richmond

At 6:30 pm tonight (Monday 10/14), a female Black Scoter was present at Meeker Slough in Richmond. The bird was feeding with a group of Surf Scoters between the two breakwaters that stretch out into t

This afternoon (Saturday, August 3rd) Meeker Slough on the Richmond shoreline had one individual each of Surfbird and Red Knot. The knot was flagged (yellow above red on the left leg) but too distant

The Greater Roadrunner reported on Wednesday continued this afternoon in Brentwood. Between 2:30 and 2:45 it was feeding along the edge of the golf course at the corner of St. Andrews Drive and Pacifi

The Swamp Sparrow found by John Sterling yesterday continued at 10 am today at Landfill Loop in Richmond. The bird is near the very first section of the trail (before it bends left, still in view of t

At 3:30 pm today I found an odd-looking junco at Miller/Knox Regional Shoreline in Point Richmond. The bird attracted my attention because of its dark slaty sides and limited white belly; however, the

The Parula continued at 5 pm today on the south side of the creek. After the black metal fence goes around a short angle, it extends along a grassy area with a basketball hoop posted; the bird was in

At 10 am today one Wandering Tattler continued at the rocky cove below the Ferry Point parking lot. The bird was feeding on the rocks on the left (east) side of the cove, below the large building with

Two of the Black Terns reported yesterday by Albert Linkowski continued today (Sunday 5/6) at 1 pm along the Big Break Regional Trail. The birds were flying over the second (larger) pond, the one visi

At noon today (Thursday) there was a male MacGillivray's Warbler along the right-hand (inland) side of the trail at Inspiration Point in Tilden Regional Park, just before the 1/4 mile signpost north o