I knew there would be Sunday crowds at the lake, but it was easy enough to stay away from everyone. What I was hoping for was to find at least one Barrow's Goldeneye--they have been scarce there latel

If you are wanting to see a lot of diiferent waterfowl and shorebirds in one trip, Crab Cove Beach in Alameda is a good place to go. I live by the beach and go birding there often. In the past week I

Had an early start today to the park and there were about 150 Mew Gulls on the north ball fields. When I was returning shortly after 9 AM, baseball was already in progress. Tracy Farrington, Beth Bran

Feb12, about 1.5 after high tide I spotted a Ridgeway Rail at the north west end to Stege Marsh just at the edge of the Marina Bay development. Maybe there are more there than before or I am becoming

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My wife and I took a walk around the mostly natural pond at Heather Farms . Saw the usual suspects: Nuttall’s Woodpecker, Ring-neck Ducks, Yellow-rumped Warblers, Ruby-crowned Kinglet, a lovely singin

Just now (2:20 p.m) enjoyed watching two males and one female Surf Scoter very near shore at the end of Gilman Street in Berkeley, among a little group other water birds. Lorrie K.

Hey Folks, I'm sure most of you are aware of the oil spill in Richmond by now. https://abc7news.com/10324620/ With the new moon the tides over the next few days are at about eight feet, so hard so say

A Eurasian (Common) Teal was seen in the Stege Marsh along the Richmond Bay trail at 1:30 p m. Today, February 10. The teal was associating with a few Green-winged Teal and a Northern Pintail and seen

Feb 9. I spent sometime mid afternoon at Lake Anza on a cool cloudy day. The most interesting bird for me was what I thought was female Common Merganser with an overdone crest. However, when I got hom

Nothing super exciting for a while now, but a couple more local things of interest. If you don't care about Scaup, skip to the third paragraph. Monday in the Peyton Slough Marsh Complex (McNabney, Wat

An oil spill has occurred in the Point Richmond area and is staining the beach at the east side of Miller Knox per the news. This is the worst possible time for an oil spill as in past years the herri

For the third time in two weeks, a Sora came up to the sidewalk to grab seeds I toss for the sparrows. Today I had a witness in Tracy Farrington. Pretty crazy, I know--the Sora not Tracy. We were tryi

I often see ebird checklists for the Berkeley Meadow showing ducks and shorebirds that were clearly in the North Basin between Cesar Chavez Park and the Berkeley shoreline north of University Ave. Sho

This is not in the East Bay, but I went cycling yesterday in Marin. I love to stop by the Laguna on Chileno Valley Road because there are usually a lot of water birds. Yesterday, there was a big accum

I saw my first Allen's hummingbird of the year at pt Pinole Regional Shoreline Park yesterday afternoon. It was atop a blackberry behind the pond and seen from the path that connects Owl Alley with th

A pair of Great Horned Owls were calling steadily in duet from 6:30 to 7:30 pm from backyards near Tassajara Park in El Cerrito Wednesday night. They were species number 75 for the day, capping an unf

Heard and then saw my first of season Allan’s Hummingbird at the UC Botanical Garden, Berkeley, this morning. The vibrant male was feeding in a patch of Echium spp. In the Mediterranean Area by the Ga

Feb 4, there weren’t so many birds out on this quiet blue sky afternoon just north of Point Isabel. I was at the bridge where the S 51st entrance joins the shoreline trail and spotted a Ridgeway Rail.

At 2pm today (Feb 4), I saw an adult Bald Eagle soaring pretty low, just north of Albany Hill. The Eagle then passed just over Albany Hill before circling higher and higher above Berkeley. My family a