Hello, Today I couldn't resist spring migration and got out before work for a walk around Claremont Canyon, where I was rewarded with some of my favorite spring migrants. I first heard a MacGillivray'

This is the first time I saw a juvenile Double-crested Ccrmorant and initially wondered about the spotted white breast. It also seemed small, but it was just a young bird. At the west end of Stege Mar

Hi folks: On Saturday May 8, Golden Gate Audubon is hosting our 1st ever Christmas-in-May Bird Count! Why are we hosting this count? Several reasons: Many of you missed a Christmas count this year, wh

This just in from DFW: > > Good morning, > > Thank you for the message. We're still receiving a few reports of mortality each week, but thankfully, they've been slowing in recent weeks. I'd suggest wa

This year and last fall have been disturbing slow for hummingbirds numbers at the house. This is documented by the daily yard eBird reports I began in august of 2017. When I started recording numbers

As anticipated a sudden departure of white-crowned sparrows occurred last night. Evidence is from my limited feeding station and from Sycamore Grove Park. None were there whereas the day before there

I decided to go back for the Yellow Warblers by the bridge at the intersection of Honker Bay and Cameron Loop Trails at Lake Chabot via Proctor Trail. I heard some Blue-gray Gnatcatchers near the Proc

I left a little later today, about 8:30, so I did not actually see some of the regular, human morning park visitors. But the birds were still there, including three White-crowned Sparrows. Like others

Singing Black-headed Grosbeak FOS in a White Alder near the Tilden Nature Area boardwalk. Good birding, Pam Young Berkeley

My thanks to Alan Bade who wondered if the bird I saw could be a Nashville Warbler rather than a MacGillivray's. He is correct. The bright yellow throat and complete white eye-rings make it a Nashvill

8:55 pm tonight a Great Horned Owl called; another, lower pitched, called very distant ten minutes later. Good birding! Don Simonson, Berkeley

Today Nancy and I made a mid-day outing to BDMRP and walked our favorite loop. Near the junction of the Pittsburgh Mine Trail and the Chaparral Loop Trail, we spotted a FOS Black-throated Gray Warbler

In the last month or two, I have briefly caught sight of small bfocks of Cedar Waxwings in the Berkeley Hills several times. Today as I returned home from a walk in the hills, they appeared on a power

Late this afternoon I had an Ash-Throated Flycatcher feeding over the creek at the "dead-end" area of the park here: 37.898252, -122.304126 (google maps). New patch bird for me although at least Graha

Many thanks to Paul Schorr (April 7) and Jim Chiropolos (April 10) for their helpful posts about sightings at Black Diamond Mines Regional Preserve. The Phainopepla was in the same area Paul described

Rosita and I traveled to Alameda after some business in Oakland this morning. Elsie Roemer was thick with birds all the way to the Doolittle Drive bridge to Bay Farm Island. We did see the continuing

Saw 2 Lawrence's Goldfinches (an apparent pair) in the south parcel of Sycamore Valley Regional Open Space Preserve, between San Ramon and Danville this afternoon. This is the first time I've seen thi

This morning on private property near where Marsh Creek Rd. intersects Camino Diablo, I had one male Blue Grosbeak which I watched for a short time while it called from atop a dying cottonwood at abou

This morning, while Nancy and I were having our coffee on the patio and watching the small flock of about twenty-five American Goldfinches at our feeders, we heard the very distinctive call of a Red-b

I biked the west half of Black Diamond Mines today. The highlight was watching a scrub jay catch and subdue a 10 inch long ring-necked snake longer than the jay. (These snakes have a beautiful red bel