Hi. Exactly where is this gem? Haven't heard of it before. Thanks. Alan Howe North Oakland

I agree--barn owl. Alan Howe North Oakland

Hi, all. @ around 4:30 yesterday, with the sun setting & almost no birds to be seen or heard, I headed back the east-west trail in Berkeley Meadow, accepting the fact that I wasn't going to see the sh

I mis-IDed the tanagers @ the park, too. Thankfully another birder straightened me out on that. & yes, I saw them hawking, too. Alan Howe North Oakland

C-s warbler was along edge of woods just south of bridge on the ball field side 10:15 AM, today, Monday, 09/28. It was foraging in very low level foliage right near the creek. It wasn’t at all shy.

My initial reaction to your photo, Elizabeth, is that I'm looking @ a canary. (I'm not saying you misidentified.) But they're related to finches, aren't they? Certainly house finch songs remind me of

#SIPBIP

Could it be pollen? There's certainly a lot of it out there. I bumped a flowering bush a couple of days ago & set off a shower of the yellow stuff. Alan Howe North Oakland

Mea culpa! I should have remembered about posting info on nests. (Thankfully I didn't give specific details on location.) Guess I was a bit too trusting of human nature. (Given many folks' handling of

Hi, all. I went looking for said roadrunner this afternoon around 2:30 or so. Walked & biked all over the area, but no bird. (I thought I'd gotten an answer to my playing a rr sound on my phone, but i

Kites are periodically seen over Cesar Chavez Park (Berkeley Marina), kiting as they survey all that open grass for rodents, I assume. (Don't know that any show up for the Berkeley Kite Festival in Ju

Hi, all. I escaped out this afternoon, rode my bike up to look for the summer tanager &, for the 3rd time this year came up short. But I did get to see 2 red-tails in what appeared to be a courtship d

Hi all. A week or so ago I biked up to the bulb & was checking out the owl enclosure, where I saw a bunch of brown & black striped birds. I was surprised a bit when they turned toward me with their ve

In the past week I've had a beautifully bright Nuttal's in the walnut tree in my back yard in North Oakland--& have been hearing more territorial tapping in the neighborhood. Have had a mockingbird or

I was up there around 4:30 & again @ 5:30 PM today but didn’t see him, though I might have heard him. yahoo.com@groups.io> wrote:

I'm a bit late on this, but this last Thursday I'm pretty sure I saw a bald eagle high in the sky over our place in north Oakland (59th St, between Shattuck & MLK). By the time I could grab my binocul

The black & white is in the trees right by the back of Alta Bates acting like a nuthatch. Wait—now he’s in front of 2999 Tegent. gmail.com@groups.io> wrote:

The black & white was nowhere to be seen by 1:30 or so. I stuck around quite a while with a couple of other birders, but he was a no show. There were yellow-rumped & Townsend's, juncos, ruby crowned k

Thanks for that, Judy. I have indeed been confused by some of those abbreviations lately. Alan Howe yahoo.com@groups.io> wrote:

Hi, all. I haven't seen anything about this here. A 20-something leading kids on a nature hike @ the park knew about it, so maybe the word's out. @ Miller-Knox Reg Pk yesterday I saw 2 raptors fly int