Eurasion collared dove at Sacramento and Baker on 5/27
Never seen this species in the area before (over 20 years)

Roy Leggitt
San Francisco

Has the waterthrush been seen today?

Thanks.

On Wed, 25 May 2022 17:32:12 -0700, "Rudyard Wallen" <arelist12@gmail.com>
wrote:

Found by Matt M this morning, appeared on the right side of the willow
mound on the north side of the pond. In the branches of the willow At water
leveled then flew to the shore on the right hand side about 8 feet away.
~5:15 for a minute.

Rudy W
SF

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Joseph Morlan, Pacifica, CA

The auklet is visible now, 8:13, in the usual surf area west of Hermit Rock

This morning I observed the pair of BULLOCK'S ORIOLES going to what looked like an almost complete nest at Fort Mason.  Bullock's Orioles rarely nest in San Francisco. It was a good morning again for flycatchers, which included 2 WESTERN KINGBIRDS, 2 WESTERN WOOD-PEWEES, an ASH-THROATED FLYCATCHER and an OLIVE-SIDED FLYCATCHER. A LAZULI BUNTING and a WESTERN TANAGER were the other migrants observed.


This morning (5/23) I did a walking loop of Golden Gate park west of HWY 1/19th with a focus on breeding birds mostly, some things I thought worthy of sharing:

Red-shouldered Hawk - 3 active nests

Black-crowned Night Heron - two hatch year birds at Elk Glen (first one arrived 5/13– presumably from Alcatraz which is the only known breeding site in the county to
Date) this morning was the first day there were two young birds together

Woodpeckers - Nuttall’s detections outnumbered Downy 7/3, the former has clearly established itself as the dominant /most numerous woodpecker in SF since being confirmed breeding for the first only about a decade ago


Warbling Vireo - persistently singing at north lake, only vireo of the morning/no Hutton’s!,
There is only one recent record of warbling vireo nesting in Golden gate park (arboretum/family group of 4 in late July 2020)

Bewick’s Wren - family group - adult and two hatch year birds near a woodpile about 100m south east of Metson lake. Bewicks wren was confirmed breeding in west golden gate park last year by the windmills but it’s incursion as a nester in the park is recent (last 3-4 years) after an absence for decades.

House Wren - THREE birds singing on territory - east side of Elk Glen, grove along north side of Hellman meadow, west side of bison paddock euke grove along Chain of Lakes

Pacific Wren - pair at Metson seep, singing bird at fly casting pools

Western Bluebird - two occupied nests at east and west ends of bison paddock respectively

Red-winged Blackbirds (California Bicolored)- two colonies - North Lake and Elk Glen. The Elk Glen is the larger one and was targeted for invasive Ludwigia removal via herbicide for this morning. I contacted the parks IPM department and informed them that they were planning to spray an area holding an active colony of an endemic bird species that would be on a list of San Francisco threatened species if such an official list existed. I was informed that they would happily delay the spraying for a month to give the red-winged blackbirds a chance to fledge.

Pine Siskin- several birds (3-4)singing in area of mature conifers near Metson seep, pair observed chasing and attempted copulation. I’m still seeing reports of siskins on the move from coast range migrant watche points as well as hearing them routinely in all larger parks on the west side of the city making me wonder are these birds that wintered and still waiting for the snow too melt and/or will we have a population of breeding pine siskins this summer

Wilson’s Warbler - 6 males singing scattered over route.



This morning was the first one in many days I did not hear a single waxwing. They seemed to have cleared out over the weekend.

Also on a belated note, raptors of interest over Corona Hill last week were a
White-tailed Kite—flying with a California Gull 5/18
1st cycle bald Eagle 5/19

Good luck,
Dominik

There was a nice movement of flycatchers through Fort Mason this morning, including an ASH-THROATED FLYCATCHER, an OLIVE-SIDED FLYCATCHER, a PACIFIC-SLOPE FLYCATCHER and 2 WESTERN WOOD-PEWEES. A BALD EAGLE flew over just after 10, and one LAZULI BUNTING passed through. The two BULLOCK'S ORIOLES have now been there for more than a month, and perhaps they will nest.  For the past two days, the male has been chasing Crows.

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Nina Bai
San Francisco

No wesael but I’m on the auklet now. 

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