Reports to the Northern California BirdBox, transcribed for BirdWest by Rebecca Freed.
ALAMEDA COUNTY
24 August In Alameda, an Egyptian Goose was near the estuary at the Marina Village Condominiums. Ursula Medanich
18 August In Newark off Hwy 84, just past the Dumbarton Bridge toll plaza going west, 2 adult and 1 juvenile Black Skimmers were seen on a sand spit to the right. Anna Wilcox
4 August East of Pleasanton at Shadow Cliffs Regional Recreation Area, 25 Wood Ducks were in Island Pond, the easternmost pond south of the Levee Trail. Kathy Robertson
CONTRA COSTA COUNTY
31 August In the Berkeley Hills, a Canada Warbler was seen in Tilden Regional Park Nature Area, on the Lower Packrat Trail near the Visitor Center, about 100 meters south of the wooden bench on that trail. William Gilbert