Sitting out in the back garden between 11 and 12 noon today, December 3, I saw five species of sparrow: White crowned, Golden crowned, House, White throated and Lincoln's. The Lincoln's first appeared

Hi all, hope you've been able to enjoy this nice weather and bounty of wintering birds. I went out to the Albany waterfront yesterday about an hour after high tide. Good numbers of ducks on the (cover

i did not see a pair of raggedy common mergansers, i saw a pair of raggedy red breasted mergansers thank you lyla for the correction! lewis

this past sunday, along with the usual wonderful late fall inhabitants, there was a pair of raggedy looking common mergansers on the lakeshore-side of the lake lewis

There were a good variety of Ducks at Arrowhead as the high tide ebbed today (Dec 1). There were three male Surf Scoters and some females mixed in with at least 100 Scaups. Best photo https://flic.kr/

As posted earlier, I located a Plumbeous Vireo at Creekside Park in Brentwood off Cheshire Drive. The bird was in view from ~135 to 150 before going missing. Srikant Char and I then relocated it at 21

I stopped by Springtown Wetlands this morning to look for a Swamp Sparrow. While I was unsuccessful in that regard, it was still surprisingly productive! I birded only the area west of the Springtown

Hello, The bright red summer tanager continues at Claremont canyon. This morning it was calling frequently, making it much easier than usual to locate. When I saw it it was high up in eucs uphill of t

A non-breeding plumage (or first year) White-faced Ibis was foraging at water's edge. On the Chocheyno Trail. soon after it forks off the Muskrat Trail, where there is water on both sides of the trail

I had a personal high count of 15 Hooded Mergansers (14 squeezed into one photo) yesterday afternoon in the lagoon off Harbor Bay Parkway just south of the Harbor Bay Ferry Terminal. This location has

Hi everyone, I swung by Pacific Commons Linear Park today to see the Harris’s Sparrow found last week by Jason Tanner. It seems to be spending a majority of time in a weedy field near where Bunche Dri

Hi All, Sorry for the extremely late report. I'm from up in the North Bay, and was just let into the group. I saw the bird in question last Sunday, so there is definitely the possibility that it has d

It happened a few weeks ago, too, but with a different set of birds. Today I had plenty of White- and Golden-crowned Sparrows, Song Sparrows, a continuing Lincoln's Sparrow and finally a Fox Sparrow.

Hi everyone, Took my dog to Point Isabel yesterday afternoon (11/7), and saw the burrowing owl at its usual spot. Go across the bridge from the parking lot, walk all the way to the west end of the poi

Harris’s Sparrow spotted this morning, Nov 29, at 9:30 am in the weedy patch across from the Lexus lot but remained hidden until Brian Fitch re-spotted it in the center of the patch. Then the bird sta

A couple quick observations of note from the past half a week or so.. Full coverage of Bradford Island Saturday turned up a couple birds of note, including 1 very rare in the delta Golden-crowned King

Our backyard migrant bird list is finally complete. This adult ferruginous arrived yesterday (later than ever), there has been one wintering here every year since 2016. In 2017 and 2018 the arrival wa

The immature Harris's Sparrow found by Jason Tanner yesterday (11/25/2020) morning was seen this morning foraging with a group of crowned sparrows along the fence on the south side of the small pond j

We had two male Wood ducks during today's Grayson creek bird survey south of the Viking Rd bridge in Pleasant Hill. We also had three Wilson's snipes. We're still adding photos but I thought others mi

Clayton Community Park was a cornucopia of raptors on Friday! Ferruginous Hawk, Golden Eagle, Red-Tailed Hawk and American Kestrel all made appearances. Checklist with ID photos: https://ebird.org/che