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I'm in the Bay Area every month or two, and always try and spend a few hours looking for birds.
Close to Pleasanton, consider:
1) Coyote Hills Regional Park and Hayward shoreline; also Ardenwood Farms which is close by.
2) Don Edwards NWR (at the end of Grand Blvd); also Alviso Marina park which is close by.
3) Del Valle Regional Park. Different habitat with different birds, including the Yellow-billed Magpie which should be easy to get, and is only found in a very small region of central California.
There are active yahoo bboards for birders in the South Bay and East Bay; it's worthwhile checking those out to see where the serious birders are going (and also, of course, eBird). And, there's an active FB site for Bay Area bird photography: https://www.facebook.com/groups/539022046179728/.
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