My excitement of a much appreciated, recent care package seemed worth adding to the BirdNET-become-Merlin sound ID discussion. The first results are attached as an image. BirdNET Pi, what is it? In sh

Should make for some nice shore & coastal wetland birding, maybe some nice passerellidae (ammospiza!) chasing. https://www.coastal.ca.gov/kingtides/participate.html#tidemap Occurring again January 1-3

Hadn’t seen Alvaros. Trust him more.

Do you have a photo showing tail feathers, or neck and breast, face better? It appears to be a darker gray individual without streaking/speckling in the face. Better would be to identify darker tail a

An hour needed occupying on the Cal campus, so borrowed a pair of lab nocs and set out. Found a nice partial leucistic oregon dark eyed junco behind Moffit library (north side). https://ebird.org/chec

Lots of movement on black Swifts in SoCal, multiple small groups 3-5; and 3 separate reports of >10 today alone. I don’t know much beyond the historical Santa Cruz coast nesting sights in the Bay Area

On a limb, if I was forced: 1st winter white. The supercilium is a poor differentiator in basic molt, particularly a late-winter well-sullied adult or 1st winter. https://sora.unm.edu/sites/default/fi

Wintering white-throated sparrows have a relatively small range. This thesis tracked individual birds with radiotelemetry and found their home-range to be a few acres (see pages 2-6), Piper & Wiley by

Still there, right at sunset, at Jim’s location if I understood correctly. After being distracted by several BLPH calls, spotted EAPH fly catching midway up willows below Euc across Old River from gra

Largest spring tides of the year are arriving soon, useful for your bird planning (or other outdoor activities such as clamming or tidepooling): morning highs and sunset lows. Last spring tide there w

The hybrid is still out. Currently very close to the standing platform but with beak buried in the wind. Got a clear view with patience, hanging out with American wigeons at the moment. Really beautif

Alex I think we met and maybe pointed something else out to you, at least I recall exchanging names with you, and Dawn and Yvette (who traded their burrowing owl for the dark ferruginous). Thx! That (

Thanks to all those with responses to my driving to Portland email. On the way stopped through Colusa NWR and saw the described bird on the road up to the photography booth (I was on the main route, a

A little relieved that Portland Thanksgiving plans have been cancelled (we'd only agreed to the plans to prevent more at-risk family members from attending larger gatherings), I find myself in the unl

There was a Nelson’s reported at Hayward https://ebird.org/checklist/S76244695With the same Nelson’s/LeContes reported at MLK https://ebird.org/checklist/S76249836 So maybe not impossible with vigilan