eBird users of EBB— Below is a fantastic write up posted this morning on PenBirds from Malia DeFelice and the San Mateo eBird review team with some quick reminders and tips on how to document your sig

I would like to take a video of the Clark’s Grebes do their water “walk”. Suggestions on where to look? Thanks! Becky Flanigan Oakland CA Sent from iPhone. Please excuse typos and grammatical errors!

Here’s more to the story courtesy Mr. Dave Quady: >>> Hi, Dominik: >>> >>> Your note earlier today said that "Mew gull was recently renamed “Short-billed gull.” >>> >>> It’s actually a bit more compl

After reviewing my photos from Dotson Family Marsh today, I think there was also a mew gull resting alongside a ring-billed gull for convenient comparison. It was just south of the "China Clipper Spur

Ann Griffith and I biked North Gate Road to Juniper Campground and it was one of the most amazing days I have spent on Diablo. Wildflowers are going off! At one area, I was lucky enough to enjoy one o

Single adult bald eagle today at Dotson Family Marsh, at the southern end of Point Pinole Regional Shoreline. Flew in from the Bay at 1:50pm, sowing panic among the assorted shorebirds and waterfowl,

Hi everyone, It is with equal parts interest and concern I report having seen no fewer than two, and quite possibly as many as four Swinhoe's White-eyes all together this morning in Bay Point. My frie

I visited two places today; Valle Vista with Mount Diablo Audubon in the morning and Pine Canyon in the afternoon. The MDAS trip produced fifty-four species, maybe the best were the heard California T

Hello, Just heard a loud squeeky mew call at my house that I’ve never heard before and I was able to locate a Yellow-bellied Sapsucker making sap rings in a laurel tree. I checked all the EBB postings

Earlier this evening I was walking along the San Francisco Bay Trail, starting at Marina Park and ending up in the vicinity of the "San Francisco Bay Trail--Heron Bay" eBird hotspot. I saw two Yellowl

Apologies for not posting sooner. Tuesday 5:30 pm post-storm, in Richmond Marina Bay Inner Harbor, one juvenile nonbreeding Common Murre, looking a little beat up by the storm. It came ashore in the b

At Middle Harbor I am pretty sure I saw a sea otter! Details swimming away - 50 yards or more away Furry tawny colored bristly hairy face with a big set of whiskers. Head very rounded. Big animal - 80

Hi Birders, I had at least 6! LEWIS'S WOODPECKERS (all seen at a given time, likely more) on Old Vasco Road scattered around the large eucalyptus at this location. Quite a year in the region for this

Finally I am seeing migrants in the Berkeley Hills. Today hummingbird numbers have tripled or quadrupled at the feeders at the house below Vollmer Peak with 12 to 17 hummers (hard to count) using the

After Monday’s morning rain I was in Tilden near Jewel Lake. As the gray sky brightened some Yellow-rumped Warblers came out. Today I am pondering if they are Myrtle or Audubon. The photo below looks

In Heather Farm Park this morning we had another five-sparrow day. We might have had a brief glance at a White-throated Sparrow, but not enough to say. For the first time in quite a while, we had a Sn

A Merlin was perched atop a telephone pole on the 600 block of 30th Street, Richmond, cross street Roosevelt, at 2 p.m. today where it stayed for almost an hour. The last time I had seen the Merlin in

Hi all, I know it's "just" an escapee, but does anyone happen to have location information about the Keel-billed Toucan that's been in the news recently for catching the eye of a local dental hygienis

Though cold and wet, the two hummingbird chicks are gaining in size and strength. Rosita has a video from today of one of them flapping its wings in the nest. Walt D and I saw two different White-thro

Out on the “island “ in Meeker Slough there were three Killdeer poking around in the marsh. One walked up within about 20 feet of me and I was able to get some photos with my Z9 with the sun at my bac