Went out to the Emeryville mudflats between about 3:30 and 5:15 and indeed there were at least 30 Black Skimmers out on the mudflats. It was a clear, calm afternoon. There were about four other birder

Four male Shovelers (additional females possible) spotted swimming near the south end of the "Nature Lake" at Heather Farm Park, Walnut Creek, 1/18/22. Between the island and the concrete pond, off "H

I had to make a quick stop at the office today - and the Skimmer spectacle from the Emeryville mudflats between my office block and I80 was amazing. At 4 pm on a falling tide the skimmer flock was ver

Jan 17 We are seeing numbers as well as variety. There were over 100 American Avocets on the edge of Meeker Slough. Two days before there were 200+. I have not seen these numbers in three years ago. J

With the tide going out after lunch, there were a good variety of shorebird along the Bay Trail. Black-belied Plovers, Marbled Godwits, Snowy Egrets, Common Goldeneyes, American Wigeons, Willets and m

I spent a little time at the east(?) end of Lake Merritt near the pergola looking through the ducks there for anything other than Scaups, Buffleheads and Ruddy Ducks. A few Common Goldeneyes were mixe

I wanted to capitalize on high tide and early morning light at the Emeryville Marina, especially the high tide roost. The roost was, as always, packed with dunlins, willets, and marbled godwits. Jim C

I visited the Lake Merritt outflow channel today at lunch and the first bird I saw was the male tufted duck floating under me on a bridge from Laney College. As Mark R, the bird’s finder stated, it se

Saw a Greater White-Fronted Goose hanging out with the Canda Geese at Crab Cove Park in Alameda. It was in the picnic area that is past the end of McKay Street and to the right. https://ebird.org/chec

This morning at Booker T. Anderson Park in Richmond, I ran into a singing Orange-crowned Warbler that seemed consistent with the ssp. sordida, which occurs primarily in Southern California. My documen

or rather Tuftless Duck, an eclipse male found this 9am at the Laney College estuary, where I work. I was getting catalytic convertor guards put on for the upcoming semester and went to check out the

Ring-necked Duck at Lake Anza photo. https://flic.kr/p/2mWzFs6 Claude Lyneis cmlyneis@... https://www.youtube.com/bhsvideodad https://www.inaturalist.org/observations/lyneisfilm

After all the rain this fall, Lake Anza looked a little better than last year when it stopped flowing in June, but has a ways to go. Around 2 pm on a clear afternoon, there were only a few birds visib

This morning I looked out the back window of our house in the 700 block of Keeler and saw a Cooper’s Hawk on the deck railing. It took me some time to unpack my Nikon, but then it landed on the bird f

There was a 'Western' Flycatcher at Berkeley Aquatic Park this morning in the bog about midpoint in the park. About 8:45 a.m. Rusty Scalf Berkeley, CA --

Walt D and I met in the park this morning and he had a 5-heron day, for me it was 4, and together we had a 2-merganser day. It was the common waders seen by Walt; he had a Great Blue Heron, in the con

In the slough to the east of the Landfill Loop trail I saw a male bufflehead the back half of whose hood was white streaked just about vertically with gray. The demarcation was sharp and the two areas

The eBird Trip Report link below uses new functionality rolled out by eBird just in time for the CBC’s. It is a very nice way to drill down on the data from our January 2 count day: https://ebird.org/

Today I spent a little while birding the town of Port Costa, and then checking a few spots in Richmond. I've actually never birded in Port Costa before besides driving McEwen Road for Rough-legged Haw

Mount Diablo Audubon Society did a field trip today to the lake and marsh. We do not understand it, but there seem to be fewer and fewer birds on Lake Merritt. Of course, it is like that in lots of pl