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

Hi, East Bay Birders: About 10 am yesterday, February 3, 2021 a very cooperative Townsend’s Solitaire was found in the trees along the entrance to the north parking lot (near Oak Grove, the outhouse)

Since my days doing tallgrass prairie restoration and breeding bird surveys in Illinois a long time ago, I have always enjoyed grasslands. In the bay area, the best grasslands are off Patterson Pass a

There was a good variety at Middle Harbor Shoreline today, but the highlight were seven Black Skimmers. I arrived just a little after high tide, but it looks like they were seen in the morning and yes

Yesterday (Saturday 1/30) at around 4:30PM, I was treated to the delightful sight of two Black Skimmers plying the waters along the Bay's coast from the Richmond Marina entrance down to Shimada Park a

The previously reported Harris’s Sparrow was seen well again today at midday in Fremont’s Pacific Linear Park along the black chain link fence separating the paved path that dead ends into Noble Drive

Today I saw a Mallard hybrid while birding Meeker Slough in Richmond. Does anyone have any idea what this mallard has hybridized with? Photo is on my eBird report. https://ebird.org/checklist/S8016426

Hello, This morning around 9:00 I counted 16 wood ducks at Valle Vista, the highest by far I’ve seen here. The caveat being that a spotting scope is almost certainly required because of how distant th

Hi all, This morning I went to Sunol regional wilderness to look for the Dipper. I haven't seen any reports since the "atmospheric river" event, and today I continued that trend, not being able to loc

For a little over two hours this morning Nancy and I searched for the Red-naped Sapsucker that was reported yesterday (1/29) on eBird by Bruce Brown. Finally, Nancy spotted a sapsucker that flew from

Mountain Plovers continue to elude me on the Robinson/Flannery Road circuit, but it was nice to see the adult male Rough-legged Hawk (https://ebird.org/checklist/S80156780) and 2 Ferruginous Hawks (Za

This afternoon I took a walk in my Walnut Creek neighborhood (north end of Homestead/Seven Hills Ranch Road). Among the mildly unusual sightings I had a large Cooper's Hawk, probably an adult female,

It was a very nice afternoon following our overnight rain, so Rosita and I took a walk to the second meadow in Pine Canyon. The highlight for me was actually twofold; we had Spotted Towhees under some

I just headed out in my neighborhood of East Richmond Heights to look for a rainbow (no luck), but while scanning across Wildcat Canyon I saw a strange dark spot on a hill above the Monte Cresta Trail

What a great day at Arrowhead, and I was all alone. Between the sun, the moon and the rain, the tide was extremely high. Yes, it was raining even harder as I turned off the freeway and toward the airp

Oh No! It’s a Dowitcher! As I look at eBird reports (I am not an eBird reviewer) but I know many of them, I think there is no bigger problem in the birding community of identifying dowitchers. Most pe

Today we birded from 11:40 - 1:55 at Creekside Park and Road, walking as far south as Wolfe Ranch. Following last night's significant winter storm which was the best of the season and badly needed, Ma

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