Didn't leave the house until after 9:30, but wanted to visit Holland Tract despite the wind. And it was windy. Going out on Delta Road, after the school I saw 5 Long-billed Curlews in the field where

Clifton Court Forebay has become one of my favorite areas to bike and bird. Today I biked around the forebay and back. On my return, I was watching an orange-crowned warbler in the willows by the euca

Winter and early spring is prime owling time, so it feels like a good time to make a post about the owls at Mines Road. Upper Mines Road is ~2500 ft elevation, and farther inland, so some nights it ge

I went to the spillway at the Lake Anza dam in Tilden Park early this afternoon, though I did not know exactly where to look for the Yellow-bellied Sapsucker tree. I crossed the bridge over the spillw

Is this a Selasphorus? It's pretty early for one to show up. Thanks. Curtis https://www.flickr.com/gp/96929509@N07/S9B54k

Thanks to everybody who replied and commented on my sighting of “my” little bunting. I can tell you that what I saw was not a lark sparrow or an escapee like a zebra finch. I haven’t seen this guy aga

EBird checklist with possible Vega Gull photos. https://ebird.org/checklist/S79316057

I believe I found an adult "Vega" Gull yesterday, afternoon at Ellis Lakes Park in Concord. Large Larus gulls of several species visit this park from time to time, usually without any regular schedule

Forwarding a report from CV birding recommending that you remove feeders and empty bird baths due to an outbreak of salmonella amongst pine siskins. I had a dead one in my yard in Piedmont yesterday.

In hopes of seeing a Great-tailed Grackle, I drove to McNabney Marsh and Waterfront Road this afternoon. I did this after visiting a car wash, also hoping to entice some rain to our area. The Grackle

Good morning birders! This morning there was a pair of Hooded Mergansers at Oak Hill Park in Danville (it's the park next to Monte Vista High School). They were there at 7:30 this morning, but don't s

Continuing bird found by Charles Hargrove observed again around 11 am Tuesday. Waited almost two hours near Lake Anza spillway for sapsucker to make an appearance. It flew into a tall oak tree on lake

Yesterday, Jan. 11, Nancy and I birded Creekside Park and Creekside Rd. for several hours. This was the second time that we were able to locate a White-throated Sparrow along the road and get excellen

Please do not laugh, but is there anyone who has seen or even thinks they have seen a little bunting in the past two weeks in the East Bay? About 10 days ago, there was a small bird at my feeder with

My daughter and I have observed a Ruby-crowned Kinglet drinking from the hummingbird nectar feeder in our backyard in downtown Berkeley. First noted six weeks ago, the kinglet (same individual?) appea

I was watching a flock of sparrows feed on the ground, when suddenly, a small bolt zoomed by me, hugging the ground, flying a foot above the ground. A Sharpie! About four feet before the sparrows, the

I did not leave until almost 12:30 for the Richmond Marina, but picked up some good birds. The one species I did not find was the Black Scoters. I did see five Grebe species, a Spotted Sandpiper and o

A Barn Owl was observed from the bridge at Meeker Slough, Richmond Bay trail at 2:30 p.m. on January 1st flying south. Seen by two other people. It was later seen at 3:30 p.m. from the junction of the

For the past several days we have observed pine siskins foraging in mixed species flocks around our well landscaped house in Sheffield Village, Oakland. They particularly appreciate our liquidamber st

Seeing the note from Jim Chiropolos - I also biked around the Forebay today, a great afternoon (checklist here: https://ebird.org/checklist/S78969997 , decent photos of a great horned owl and a northe