Hi Jim, This is a great find. Can you please let us know if F133 is in one of the parts of Eden Landing that is open to the public, or if you were doing the Shorebird Survey in one of the closed-off a

Sam, I guess if you’re not sure you’re not sure. I should point out that Nashville, while generally uncommon along the Bay show up with some regularity this time of year. Your description sounds prett

Hi Folks, There is an eBird report from this morning of a female Williamson's Sapsucker, complete with good photos, found by Eric Heisey on Mines Road. Eric does not appear to be a member of this grou

Hi Alex, We’re you able to get a photo or at least a good look at the bird?. As you probably know, any storm-petrel is extremely rare in the East Bay, but Ashy Storm-Petrel is probably the only one th

I was able to see the Northern Waterthrush At about noon today after a few minutes of searching. Mercifully I saw it, with Mark Rauzon, on both the Contra Costa Co. side and the Alameda side of the cr

Hi Jim, Where is Lake Cascade? Thanks, Aaron Maizlish Moderator

All, No politics, no ad hominem attacks, if you have a problem with the direction a conversation is going please reach out to your moderator. I am not going to let this list go into any nasty directio

Dawn, I don’t think they were certain on the ID yet when I got the text. Hopefully they have some good photos and can determine the Bird to species tonight. This was an outing of the California Young

EBB Folks, I’m just getting the word out that ace birders Ethan Monk and Lucas Stephenson have just found a Golden Plover at Frank’s Dump. The Golden Plover is in with Black-bellied Plovers at the hig

Derek, Thanks for putting this up on eBird: https://ebird.org/checklist/S71701393. I’m forwarding this to SF-Birds and NBB as well. At the risk of being pedantic, but you probably saw the bird in San

Birding folks, I just received a text from Derek Lecy, a Marin County-birder. At 12:36 PM he photographed a Masked/Nazca Booby “bombing through” the Golden Gate heading into San Francisco Bay. He was

Posting for Jim Chiropolos: That caught your attention - huh? Today Derek Heins and I decided to bird Coyote Hills and we saw Jerry Ting - on a bike!!! - at the north Alameda Creek staging area off Un

HI All, I’m going to close down this thread in the spirit of moving on to the next sightings. Yes, there are lots of juncos out there, and they seem to be spreading everywhere in urban parks and in ma

Forwarded post from Ed Vine. Thanks, Aaron

Hi Linda, For better or worse, the East Bay Birds list does not allow for photo attachments with email messages. This is useful for preventing abuse,and for keeping extra large emails from going out t

The way that two people can both use the same personal hotspot is to have the first person share a checklist, any checklist, of that hotspot with you; i.e. Alan could share one of his Perkins Canyon l

I’ve listened to that display recording on the Sibley app so many times over the last few weeks. That’s it! Aaron

EBB Birders, The park people and the Peregrine Patrol Volunteers request that we not publicly post information about the nesting falcons. Evidently there has been a considerable amount of trespasser a

Dear All, Thank you for the reminder. I think about half of the messages sent on this listserv for the last week have either been intended only for the original poster, or probably they should have be

Thank you for being a member of EBB-Sightings, “East Bay Birding”. East Bay Birding is a list service to report interesting and rare bird sightings in Alameda and Contra Costa Counties. Because this s