Nothing super exciting for a while now, but a couple more local things of interest. If you don't care about Scaup, skip to the third paragraph. Monday in the Peyton Slough Marsh Complex (McNabney, Wat

You beat me to it... yesterday at 930 am there was also a Skimmer (presumably one of the pair) on Brooks Island just East of the Heron Rookery. Photos in eBird soon. Presumably they will behave like l

To all birders that have chased or will chase the long-continuing domestic Graylag Goose at Miller Knox: Please enter the goose in eBird as "Domestic Goose sp." or "Graylag Goose (Domestic type)." Bot

Agree with Derek— in an area with few tall roost sites and hundreds of off leash dogs and meddling humans, it seems likely the owl is just getting flushed. Perhaps by the observer.. Ethan

Currently writing from the field, so excuse typos but there is a first cycle Lesser black backed gull on the north side of landfill loop. I believe this represents a second county record? With the fir

As posted earlier, I located a Plumbeous Vireo at Creekside Park in Brentwood off Cheshire Drive. The bird was in view from ~135 to 150 before going missing. Srikant Char and I then relocated it at 21

Apparent Plumbeous Vireo at Creekside Park in Brentwood off Cheshire Dr. at least a Solitary with no yellow. Would be 4th county record? Ethan

A couple quick observations of note from the past half a week or so.. Full coverage of Bradford Island Saturday turned up a couple birds of note, including 1 very rare in the delta Golden-crowned King

Over Inspiration Pt, 2 minutes ago. Ethan

Hi all, After a successful goose chase today and birding a couple other spots, Srikant Char, Logan Kahle, Augie Kramer, and I spent the afternoon birding together at Clifton Court Forebay. Char and I

Hi All, I spent about 6 hours today covering the bay shoreline between the Alameda County Line and the N end of Pt. Richmond. A baywatch from Pt. Isabel produced an unseasonably high count of 21 Elega

Hi All, A bit late with this email, but I wanted to add a bit of clarity about what the golden-plover was and my stance on the bird. First, I wanted to clear up that in the field I thought the bird mi

This morning the Golden-plover is in view at Meeker Slough, to the West of the old pier. Pacific or American is a question we are still trying to answer. I thought it was a definite Pacific prior to s

Since you brought up goldfinch, yesterday on Holland Tract I had both a Mockingbird and a Lesser Goldfinch imitating a Magpie. I've never heard a goldfinch imitate a corvid before--pretty cool. Also n

All— Lucas Corneliussen asked me to post this to EBB for the sake of Reef Comer: “ Hello North Bay birders, Not sure if this counts as North Bay, but just minutes ago I saw what very much looked like

In response to a couple emails, I figure I should clarify two things. One, my assessment of Garrity Creek Mouth as the best scrub/fennel habitat now in the county was based less on the amount of scrub

Some highlights from the weekend birding West Contra Costa, definitely not chronologically (most eBird checklists not up yet): Today, Sunday, from about 11am to 145pm, hawkwatched at Miller/Knox from

With slight E winds this morning headed to Richmond area, started at Pt. San Pablo to see what was moving. Highlights in terms of flying-over waterfowl were 184 White-fronts (5 flocks), 31 Cacking Gee

Yesterday birded Pt. San Pablo from 640am to about 11. There were a couple other birders out, including the Stephensons who met me at ~845. Almost no wind early morning, with a slight West breeze (2/3

Lake Cascade is a pond in Orinda off San Pablo Dam Rd/Camino Pablo. It seems like good habitat for a Solitary Sandpiper. Ethan