This afternoon about 4 pm there were on the order of a hundred Brown Pelicans just off the Bay Trail near the S51st entrance. They were also in the “pond” just west of the gas plant and shuttling back

I went back to the Gyuto foundation again this evening at about 7PM to try again to get photos of the female Summer Tanager. This time I had some luck! https://flic.kr/p/2nuoz4W https://flic.kr/p/2nup

Yesterday I got a brief obscured look at a tanager along the forest trail at the Gyuto Foundation. I assumed it was a Western Tanager, but after getting a much better look at what I think is a female

I checked my records dating back to 2018. This year we have two to three times the number of Anna Hummingbirds of 2019 through 2021 at this time. 2018 numbers may be comparable to this year. It’s fasc

A male orange backed rufous hummingbird has visited our feeders several times today. Rufous Hummingbirds are relatively common at the house in the spring, but very uncommon in the summer/fall with les

We've been gone doing a Yuba Pass trip and then visiting a Las Lomas classmate of mine in Idaho (Ruffed Grouse). It was a long time and we're glad to be home despite the heat. Though we returned late

There is a pair of nesting stilts with four chicks at the north end of Aquatic Park. Phoebe tanner

Hey all Certainly hard to keep track on birds from other Bay Area counties. Elegant Terns were confirmed with ( 15 ) incubating eggs during the summer of 2019 at the Don Edwards NWR near the Dumbarton

I had lunch at Middle Harbor today and there was a large group of Caspian and Elegant terns on the mudflat and one of the Elegant Terns flew to the former Alameda county navel base with a fish in its

I heard and saw a male hooded oriole today for the first time in about 2 weeks. There had been at least 2 families raised since spring but I had not seen or heard them for 2 weeks. One family with 2 f

I was out there with my fiance at the end of Winton St. It was low tide - very low. We had to walk the dog-walkers trail out because Maggie (our poodle) was along with us. We saw a turkey family (3 or

Monday a.m. on oak woodland ridge between Heavenly Ridge Lane and Morningside Drive, about an hour's worth of very clear, bell-like repeated song that keyed out via the Smithsonian Migratory Bird Cent

June 13th, there was a small raft of assorted summering ducks off the east side of Brooks Isl. that included 42 summering Surf Scoters and 1 Long-tailed Duck. I presume this is the same Long-tailed Du

Today I biked from the house and saw the indigo bunting, plus Lawrence’s goldfinches seeing two new green birds at Brionnes, one the east bays under the radar better birding locations (I saw 47 specie

Hello, Today I found a singing male Indigo Bunting near Maud Whalen in Briones Regional Park. This is about the same location where an Indigo Bunting was seen for a few weeks back in 2018, but none ha

In the absence of Hugh Harvey, a couple of local observations. The Western Tanagers that I reported in May have finally departed, after staying somewhat longer than usual. The local Red-tailed Hawks h

We had our first in-person Mount Diablo Audubon meeting tonight at the Gardens building in Heather Farm Park. Rosita chose to walk with our niece who arrived from Chile yesterday. After they left the

I realize that this might be an improper use of this site but would appreciate it if Jerry Ting or any other bird photographer would contact me about the use of some bird photos in a book I am writing

This morning Chris Ortega found a female/imm. male American Redstart at the park, in the trees at the south end of the pond by the footbridge. It was still there at ~11:30AM. Seen by several birders.

It is not all that much, really, but while speaking with a park friend in Heather Farm this morning, I though I heard the clucking sound of a Green Heron. But as the conversation stretched, so did hte