Around 11 AM today a small group of birders and photographers enjoyed close-up looks at the continuing Eastern Phoebe along with a female Northern Red Bishop, Swamp Sparrow(s), Lincoln Sparrows and ot

Present Friday at 10:20 AM on rocky jetty north of USS Hornet. Look for big round red thing on ship side of jetty, then north for booby among gulls and cormorants. Just hanging out, preening, looking

A Swamp Sparrow continues along Mission Creek at newly renovated Gomes Park in Fremont. Around 11:00 the bird was hanging out with a pair of Lincoln's Sparrows in the long yellow grass on the north si

During today's eastern Alameda County CBC, Bob Dunn found a first winter Harris's Sparrow in a small flock of crowned sparrows feeding around a gully on the east side of Doolan Road, Livermore, across

Mid-day today an immature Snow Goose and 20+ "Aleutian" Cackling Geese joined about 300 Canada Geese on the soccer lawns at Fremont Central Park (Stephenson @ Gallaudet) as is common this time of year

This afternoon Jerry Ting and I braved the wind on the No Name Trail at Coyote Hills from the pump station west to the 2nd pond. Around 3:45 PM Jerry re-located the Semipalmated Sandpiper he'd first s

An adult male Indigo Bunting found by Jerry Ting on 6/28/17 continues on Alameda Creek north of the Sequoia Bridge. The bird loudly and frequently vocalizes in a 3-note trill, sometimes from the top o

I had a Canyon Wren pop up "JEET-ing" right next to the trail, maybe 2' from me down a steep bluff, on a fallen branch near Little Yosemite at Sunol RW around noon today. On ebird I see that Canyon Wr

A number of seasonal birds as well as an assortment of the usual suspects make Lake Elizabeth in Fremont's Central Park a great place to go birding right now. I saw about 36 species on my favorite 2 1

9+ birders, many scopes seeing two Long-Tailed Ducks on the bay west of the public restroom at Emeryville Marina 11:25 this morning. Stephanie Floyd Fremont

On the southern tip of the rocky island west of the par course, 11:20 AM today. Stephanie Floyd Fremont

Along the Alameda shoreline from the entrance to Ballena Bay (bay side of Willie Stargell field) to the marina there are thousands of gulls, scoters and others right now, very close to the road.Quite

During the Eastern Alameda County CBC today, while scoping the fields and hills from the west end of Arroyo Las Positas (access at Springtown Blvd. near Rhododendron), Rich Nicholson and I had a Prair

Nancy Christensen reports that around noon today in Niles, between the train overpass and Mission Blvd. overpass on Alameda Creek, on the south side, she had a male Common Goldeneye and a male Hooded

Sharon Jue, Vicki Robinson and I visited Tilden early this afternoon and found two Red Crossbills at the top of a redwood tree near the corp yard at the nature center. Down the road towards Jewel Lake

Around 2:15 today, the lovely Grasshopper Sparrow was foraging alone out in the open in the dry yellow grass across the paved path from the closed pier (on the side with the big bronze disk). Ken Walt

Vicki Robinson refound and photographed the Magnolia Warbler at noon and again at 2:10 today between the fountain and the pool site at Ardenwood Farm in Fremont. Stephanie Floyd Fremont

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For the 20 participants at this morning's Ohlone Audubon's field trip to Don Edwards NWR, highlights were a Peregrine Falcon on an electrical tower by Thornton Avenue and several Lesser Yellowlegs amo

Ohlone Audubon kicked off the New Year with a high tide field trip at Martin Luther King Regional Shoreline from Arrowhead Marsh to Garretson Point and back. To protect habitat and birds, the park ser