I don’t disagree with greater use of eBird - the data it’s gathering is great. That said, I hope people continue to use lists like SFBirds for getting the word out about uncommon birds in our

Apologies if this is deemed "off-topic" - hopefully it will be of value. Just wanted to alert all of you - before the month is up - that eBird's challenge of the month is to submit a checklist and

Howdy friends, Today I thought I might try to hit as much of the park as possible to get a solo single day species total well above what I've done before (prob low/mid 40s). Doing so would force me to

FYI, the Summer Tanager is once again showing well by the beehive in Glen Canyon.

Male Purple Finch and singing house wren @ Muir Pond at Children's Garden in BG on Saturday. Same location had a spotted towhee on Thursday. Continuing Nashville Warbler in bushes beneath the berry

Rosita and I were among a number of folks waiting to see the continuing Summer Tanager in Glen Canyon Park yesterday. Though I heard someone tell us that it was seen earlier in the day, it did not

I just observed a PALM WARBLER in the Bottlebrush trees in front of 2130 Leavenworth (between Filbert and Greenwich) on Russian Hill. It was flicking its tail constantly, and was deep inside the

When I stopped by the Lagoon this morning there were at least 5 Red-breasted Mergansers present, including 1 drake, but no Commons that I noticed. And 4 of the Black Skimmers were present. Paul

There's red-breasted Merganser there in winter and has been since the Lagoon was made. If you see an eBird checklist with common and no red-breasted this time of year that's an indicator to me that

Any confirmation of the eBird report yesterday for this unusual species at Crissy Lagoon? Thanks RM

Six BARN SWALLOWS flew north along the beach past Fort Funston this morning - undoubtedly part of the early migration that Dominik mentioned earlier.

Hi all Spent a bit of the noon hour along the Phil Arnold Oak Woodland Trail in GGP (north of McLaren Lodge and around the Horseshoe Courts). While I did not see the Red-naped Sapsucker that Brian T.

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One in Crissy wildlife protection area east of pier seen from viewing platform around 2pm and the 5 were still on the mudflat in the lagoon a few minutes later Get Outlook for iOS

Currently 5 at Crissy Get Outlook for iOS

On this M.L. King, Jr. Day there was a treat - the Black Skimmers put on quite a show late this afternoon at Crissy Field and beach. As David Assmann already reported, there were three resting on the

There were 3 BLACK SKIMMERS in Crissy Lagoon this afternoon (first spotted yesterday) so we currently have Skimmers at two locations in San Francisco. Yesterday at the GGAS walk at Fort Mason,

Rosita and I drove to Heron's Head this afternoon, walked out to the end and fairly easily found the Rock Sandpiper. She tried to photograph the bird with her phone and spotting scope, but the bird

A Merlin was hunting from the TV antenna on the apartment building on the NW corner of Sacramento and Octavia Sts. (1:00pm) The bird made a couple of high speed passes before coming up with a sparrow

Hi All, Bounced around a couple spots in the Presidio on Friday morning. The highlight was a hybrid Zonotrichia at Fort Scott at the north end of the Ball Fields opposite the Log Cabin.