Ebird's ebirder of the month challenge (to qualify you in a lottery drawing for a pair of $3k binoculars) is to post checklists with at at least 50 rated photographs summed over all checklists in Dece

I am currently at Albany Mudflats (in Albany). I came to look for a super cool hybrid duck found by Dean LaTray - really great find and photos! I bird this patch fairly regularly and this is by far th

Largest spring tides of the year are arriving soon, useful for your bird planning (or other outdoor activities such as clamming or tidepooling): morning highs and sunset lows. Last spring tide there w

Last Saturday, when I photographed the Loggerhead Shrike at McLaughlin Park, I also saw a large Hawk land well up in a Eucalyptus tree. When I looked at the photos I first thought it was a Red-shoulde

Loggerhead shrike continues at Berkeley Meadow. Observed repeatedly this morning perched on chain link fence along east-west path near entrance across from Seabreeze Market. White throated sparrows al

Hi, all. @ around 4:30 yesterday, with the sun setting & almost no birds to be seen or heard, I headed back the east-west trail in Berkeley Meadow, accepting the fact that I wasn't going to see the sh

Walked the trail to the reservoir yesterday , along the way saw or heard the following Wood Duck pair at the bridge Ring neck ducks 4 or 5 among the many coots at the bridge 2 pied billed grebes at br

I spent some time riding my bike after 3:30 today, going south of Ygnacio Valley Road and along the Ygnacio Canal which flows below John Muir Hospital. The reason is because of a credible report of a

Apparent Plumbeous Vireo at Creekside Park in Brentwood off Cheshire Dr. at least a Solitary with no yellow. Would be 4th county record? Ethan

After reading about the sightings of a Loggerhead Shrike, I took my binoculars and Nikon down to McLaughlin park this afternoon with a vague hope of seeing it. Amazingly, after 10 minutes of walking t

Hello, I went back to Marlin pound and Springtown wetlands in Livermore and the American Bittern that Alex Henry respotted a few days ago was still there (could be the same one I saw in October). It w

It was a banner day for me in the park--fourteen Killdeers on the north ball field with some Canada Geese and two Cackling Geese. It was a six-sparrow day, with White- and Golden-crowned, Song, Lincol

I birded Valle Vista Staging Area in Moraga today with Madeline Brane. We tallied 52 species including an amazing gathering of 31 Wilson’s Snipe. Upper San Leandro Reservoir is dropping significantly

Thursday around 3pm, on the north-south trail between the 2 benches. I've never seen one in this corner of the East Bay before.

Hi everyone, I found this very strange-looking Ruby-crowned Kinglet today in the Ken Mercer Sportspark. It had all the Ruby-crowned kinglet common features (wing bars, eye-ring, red crown, lighter col

I was checking out Godfrey Park to see if the Tropical Kingbird returned to this small park next to the golf course. I did not find much but as I was leaving I saw a crow harassing a raptor and when I

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