The female White-Winged Scoter continues in Richmond Harbor, this morning swimming at a stately pace with surf scoters in the channel between the marina and the SF Bay Trail on south side of the harbo

Jan 25 I went over to Lake Anza in the afternoon to see I the Yellow-bellied Sapsucker was there. There was one other birder there and while neither of us saw it we both heard it briefly. Not all was

What a glorious morning following the rain and wind overnight. I was taught by my birding girlfriends that the birds are always out after the storm, and they were today. Over 100 Mew Gulls were on the

The EBB Archives (1998-2010) search function has been updated with Google's new Programmable Search: https://www.birdwideweb.com/EBB-Search.php Dal Leite Walnut Creek

The American dipper is still present upstream from the vehicle bridge at Little Yosemite trailhead parking lot. Bird is at (37.5049547, -121.8280806). Or hike up Little Yosemite trail about 0.2 miles

EBB Folks, I got up to Sunol Regional Park this morning, since the day was sunny, ahead of the much-anticipated rainstorms that are supposed to start tomorrow. Fortunately my son, who’s still on winte

Folks, I just wanted to pass along an eBird report that I saw this evening: An American Dipper was seen and photographed at Sunol Regional Wilderness, by a birder who isn't on EBB-Sightings. He report

The big surprise for me today was seeing a male Canvasback on the large, mostly natural pond in Heather Farm Park. Our MDAS President, Jerry Britten, happened to be in the park and was photographing i

To all birders that have chased or will chase the long-continuing domestic Graylag Goose at Miller Knox: Please enter the goose in eBird as "Domestic Goose sp." or "Graylag Goose (Domestic type)." Bot

This afternoon after the rain subsided I biked along Old San Pablo Trail from the intersection of San Pablo Dam Road/Bear Creek Road to the northern end of the reservoir. I spotted a Red-necked Grebe

The birding gods smiled on me today and allowed me to refind the dipper at Sunol. I watched the dipper for about 30 minutes and at one time, it "fished' within five feet of me - much of the time it wa

Hi all, Yesterday 1/23 I birded Bethel Island with Augie Kramer, Cédric Duhalde, and Jonah Benningfield. I've long since wanted to spend an entire day birding on Bethel, and this is the closest to an

Around 10:15am, the mewing calls of the Yellow-bellied Sapsucker led Doug Mosher and me from the bridge where we heard it, to a tree next to the third bench from the kiosk, where it landed. After fora

My wife and I birded the Delta today. One of the highlights was a large group of almost 200 Sandhill cranes next to the road at the Holland Track. There were also lots of ducks and some geese at the H

Today I made my standard stop at a small pond just north of San Lorenzo Creek as it’s a reliable spot for Common Gallinule and sometimes Sora too. Today I believe I added a new species in that pond, C

We have had a female Common Goldeneye in the concrete pond at Heather Farm Park for pretty close to two weeks, now. The first time Rosita and I saw her she was in the pond by the private Seven Hills S

Jan 22 between 3 and 4 PM. I went looking for the Yellow-bellied Sapsucker previously reported at Lake Anza as the rain was ending. Around 4 PM I was on the path west of the spillway and heard a new b

Hello all, I saw a Juvenile Snow Goose at Robert W. Crown Beach, in Alameda, at about 4:30 pm on 1/19. It was with about 20 Canadian Geese, on the grass, right by the walking path on the west side of

Yesterday(1/21/21) about 10:00AM we saw and heard a male Pileated Woodpecker. We were on the Stream Trail between the Orchard picnic area and the bridge over Redwood Creek before the Fern Dell group a

Recently reported as an albino sparrow on NextDoor, I ran across an interesting leucistic White-crowned Sparrow at Sycamore Valley Open Space in Danville while walking my dogs this morning. Photos can