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Re: Gannet still on Alcatraz
Some digiscoped Northern Gannet images from this morning....
http://fog.ccsf.edu/~jmorlan/NorthernGannetP1160523.htm On Sun, 20 Apr 2014 14:22:41 -0700, cdlou37 <cdlou37@comcast.net> wrote: The Northern Gannet continues at the same spot.returned to its favored roost. -- Joseph Morlan, Pacifica, CA "It turns out we're very good at not seeing things" - Jack Hitt
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Re: Gannet still on Alcatraz
C Lou
The Northern Gannet continues at the same spot. Calvin Lou Sent from my Verizon Wireless 4G LTE Smartphone
-------- Original message -------- From: Michael Feighner Date:04/20/2014 9:45 AM (GMT-08:00) To: SFBirds@... Subject: Re: [SFBirds] Gannet still on Alcatraz When I arrived at 8:15 am, the Northern Gannet was still on its favorite roost, mid-way between the right-most and left-most ends of the island, sort of below the lighthouse on the right on the wall with the 'chimney' just above the shoreline. When I left st 9:15 am, the Gannet circled around several times and dove and finally returned to its favored roost. Michael Feighhner Livermore, CA,Alameda County http://www.LinkedIn.com/in/michaelfeighner Connected by DROID on Verizon Wireless -----Original message-----
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SF Park warning
Alan Hopkins
I thought I'd let you all know to avoid Golden Gate Park (at least the eastern half), the big 4/20 marijuana event is happening and the park will be gridlock with stoners. Last year it took me more than a hour to get from Funston to Lincoln. Alan Hopkins  Â
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Battery Godfrey, SF, 4/20/14
Paul Saraceni
With light east winds I did a sky-watch this morning atop Battery Godfrey (6:30-10:30 AM), until the winds shifted and the fog began to encroach. Observations of local interest: Brant 2 (on water) Canada Goose 1 (fly-by) Mallard 1 m. (fly-by) Surf Scoter 505 (multiple flocks flying W high over the Gate) Osprey 1 (flyover N) Sharp-shinned Hawk 2 ad. Peregrine Falcon 1 Great Egret 1 (flyover NE) Com. Loon 4 (alt. plumage; flyovers NW) Red-thr. Loon 1 (basic; on water) Brown Pelican 12 Whimbrel 53 (1 flock flying W through the Gate) Heermann's Gull 2 ad./1 imm. Herring Gull 2 ad. Glaucous-winged Gull 1 imm. Caspian Tern 4 Pigeon Guillemot 1 Com. Murre 4 Eur. Collared-Dove 46 (multiple flocks N) Band-tailed Pigeon 3 (1 flock N) Belted Kingfisher 1 m. (perched atop cypress then flew E) N. Flicker 1 f. Steller's Jay 1 Cedar Waxwing 34 (calling flyovers) Or.-cr. Warbler 2 Townsend's Warbler 5 (calling flyovers) Yel.-rumped Warbler 4 (calling flyovers) Fox Sparrow 1 Cal. Towhee 1 Hooded Oriole 1 f. (flyover S) Am. Goldfinch 11 (calling flyovers) Lesser Goldfinch 5 Purple Finch 6 (incl. female carrying nesting materials) Paul Saraceni San Francisco
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Northern Gannet still on Alcatraz
fair80@...
The Northern Gannet was seen early this morning on Alcatraz, from Fort Mason. Its behavior was quite interesting, displaying, headshaking, and taking short flights, always returning to the same place that Michael Feigner describes so well. I think someone with professional video equipement should get out there somehow, because I think the bird is showing possible courtship behavior, although its bemused audience consists of Brandt's Cormorants.
Laurie Graham Jeff Fairclough South San Francisco
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Re: SF Big Day April 19 - 117 species including NORTHERN GANNET
Oops, i meant to attach our full bird list. Here it is: 117 species:Canada Goose American Wigeon Mallard Northern Shoveler Ring-necked Duck Greater Scaup Surf Scoter Black Scoter Bufflehead Ruddy Duck California Quail Red-throated Loon Pacific Loon Common Loon Pied-billed Grebe Horned Grebe Eared Grebe Western Grebe Clark's Grebe Northern Gannet Brandt's Cormorant Double-crested Cormorant Pelagic Cormorant Brown Pelican Great Blue Heron Great Egret Green Heron Black-crowned Night-Heron Turkey Vulture Cooper's Hawk Red-shouldered Hawk Red-tailed Hawk Clapper Rail American Coot American Avocet Black Oystercatcher Black-bellied Plover Semipalmated Plover Killdeer Spotted Sandpiper Willet Whimbrel Marbled Godwit Black Turnstone Surfbird Dunlin Least Sandpiper Western Sandpiper Short-billed Dowitcher Common Murre Pigeon Guillemot Heermann's Gull Ring-billed Gull Western Gull California Gull Glaucous-winged Gull Caspian Tern Rock Pigeon Band-tailed Pigeon Eurasian Collared-Dove Mourning Dove Great Horned Owl Anna's Hummingbird Allen's Hummingbird Downy Woodpecker Hairy Woodpecker Northern Flicker Red-masked Parakeet Pacific-slope Flycatcher Black Phoebe Hutton's Vireo Steller's Jay Western Scrub-Jay American Crow Common Raven Tree Swallow Violet-green Swallow Barn Swallow Chestnut-backed Chickadee Bushtit Pygmy Nuthatch Brown Creeper Pacific Wren Marsh Wren Wrentit Western Bluebird Hermit Thrush American Robin Northern Mockingbird European Starling Cedar Waxwing Orange-crowned Warbler Common Yellowthroat Yellow-rumped Warbler Townsend's Warbler Wilson's Warbler Spotted Towhee California Towhee Savannah Sparrow Fox Sparrow Song Sparrow White-crowned Sparrow Golden-crowned Sparrow Dark-eyed Junco Red-winged Blackbird Western Meadowlark Brewer's Blackbird Great-tailed Grackle Brown-headed Cowbird Hooded Oriole Bullock's Oriole House Finch Purple Finch Pine Siskin Lesser Goldfinch American Goldfinch House Sparrow
On Sun, Apr 20, 2014 at 10:35 AM, Bob Toleno <bob@...> wrote:
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San Francisco birds (belated)
Kimberly Jannarone <kmj@...>
Hello Birders,
I was so busy getting ready for Bob and Juli's Big Day in SF, that I neglected to post some recent sightings of interest. On Friday at Corona Heights, Rob and I watched a Cooper's Hawk flying low over the museum parking lot, rustling up a few birds, including a squeaking BLACK-HEADED GROSBEAK. At Fort Mason on Friday, I was taking a break on the bench by the stairs when a grey bird flitted into a tree near the water: a BLUE-GRAY GNATCATCHER. It foraged for a minute or two, then headed west. On April 13, walking around Stowe Lake near dusk, I saw a female WOOD DUCK in the water under a shady tree. She was among a group of Mallards and Ring-Neckeds. I heard a two syllable-call, repeated a couple minutes apart, and soon watched her making it, which was new to me: She dipped her bill down, said "ooo-EE," then lifted her bill up, which would drip a little with water after each call. Other highlights for me in Bob & Juli's expertly-planned Big Day included a GREEN HERON among the Black-Crowneds at Stowe Lake, a male CALIFORNIA QUAIL at the Arboretum, two breeding-plumaged SHORT-BILLED DOWITCHERS at Heron's Head, the drive-through WRENTIT and SPOTTED TOWHEE at Bayview Hill, and a cuteness assault of 5 goslings with two Canada Geese parents at Stowe Lake. Good birding, Kimberly Jannarone San Francisco
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SF Big Day April 19 - 117 species including NORTHERN GANNET
As part of Golden Gate Audubon's annual birdathon fundraiser, Juli Chamberlin and i led a small team of top-notch birders (Rob Cullison, Kimberly Jannarone, and Matt Perry) on a 15-hour big day yesterday through most of the great birding spots in SF. We ended the day with 117 species detected, beating our previous year's SF big day by four birds (though last year's was only a 12-hour trip). We had hoped to break 130 this year, but conditions just weren't favorable for that. Difficulties aside, we had a spectacularly fun day. By far the best moment of the day was when we walked onto the grass at Fort Mason and saw the group of birders who had the NORTHERN GANNET in their scopes! Our whole team practically sprinted across the lawn to get a (distant) look at this visitor from the Atlantic: a life bird for three of us, including me! Other highlights from the day included excellent, long looks at the Heron's Head Clapper Rail, Great Horned Owls calling in Glen Canyon, a single male Black Scoter at Great Highway, and decent numbers of all three loon species looking very sharp in breeding plumage, all pushed in extra close by the westerly winds.As many birders have noted, migration this year seems to be getting a late start along the coast, and that was exactly our experience. The only migrant we found was a single Bullock's Oriole in the garden at Fort Mason; every other bird was either resident, breeding, or still wintering. Another contributing difficulty was the fact that winds picked up strongly in the late morning, making the birds hunker down and ear birding much more difficult. Besides migrants, our biggest misses were Snowy Egret (!!), Nuttall's Woodpecker, Cliff Swallow, and Bewick's Wren.
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Re: Gannet still on Alcatraz
When I arrived at 8:15 am, the Northern Gannet was still on its favorite roost, mid-way between the right-most and left-most ends of the island, sort of below the lighthouse on the right on the wall with the 'chimney' just above the shoreline. When I left st 9:15 am, the Gannet circled around several times and dove and finally returned to its favored roost. Michael Feighhner Livermore, CA,Alameda County http://www.LinkedIn.com/in/michaelfeighner Connected by DROID on Verizon Wireless
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Re: Gannet still on Alcatraz
Northern Ganney remains on wall with 'chimney' halfway between lighthouse on the right and the tower on the left just sbove Michael Feighhner Livermore, CA,Alameda County http://www.LinkedIn.com/in/michaelfeighner Connected by DROID on Verizon Wireless
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Gannet still on Alcatraz
Relocated in same spot at 7:45 am
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Older image of Alcatraz Island showing the Northern Gannet's current location in perspective to the rest of the island...
Older image of Alcatraz Island showing the Northern Gannet's recent and
current location in perspective to the rest of the island... http://www.travelthruhistory.tv/ThruHistory/wp-content/uploads/2014/01/alcat raz_island_prison6196.jpg The precise spot in this image is halfway between the Watch Tower on the right and the Water Tank Tower on the left just above the water's edge: Here you see the previously described wall with the attached "chimney". In this picture the "chimney" is yellow-green in color. I have signed up for Peter Grace's Northern Gannet Boat trip tomorrow morning. Call Peter Grace at 415-613-3249 and / or email him at birds AT petergrace.com . -- Michael Feighner Livermore, CA, Alameda County <http://www.linkedin.com/in/michaelfeighner> <http://www.linkedin.com/in/michaelfeighner> http://www.linkedin.com/in/michaelfeighner -- "It is not the strongest or the most intelligent who will survive but those who can best manage change." ¯ <http://www.goodreads.com/author/show/12793.Charles_Darwin> Charles Darwin -- [Non-text portions of this message have been removed]
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seawatch 4/19/14, yesterday's GGAS walk etc.
Dominik Mosur
Seawatched briefly this morning (6:40 - 7:30 a.m.) from the south end of Great Highway/Ocean Beach across from the wastewater plant. Partly cloud, west wind 10-15mph, dying down to a light breeze by 7:15, partly overcast with decent visibility with the following of note: Brant - 2 north White-winged Scoter - m,f on the water RT Loon - 7 basic 2 alt Pacific Loon - 10 alt, 2 basic Common Loon - 8, 3 on the water 5 north, all in alternate Brown Pelican - 18, several small groups Black-bellied Plover - 5 on the beach Marbled Godwit - 49 Whimbrel - 3 Sanderling - 1 ELEGANT TERN - single bird north, have arrived/passed by
much earlier again this year at several spots on the Central Coast, 3rd year in a row we've had April Elegants in SF/Marin Common Murre - 23, singles and small groups, north Pigeon Guillemot - 3 north AMERICAN PIPIT - flying north directly over the seawatch perch, calling Yesterday's GGAS walk on Corona Hill was highlighted by respectfully brief views of a staked out Allen's Hummingbird nest containing two chicks (eggs laid 3/24), only obvious migrant passerine was a WARBLING VIREO near the basketball courts. Have fun out there and Happy Spring to all, Dominik Mosur San Francisco http://www.flickr.com/photos/dominikmosur/
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Re: Gannet Back
C Lou
Northern Gannet still there at location described by MArk Eaton. Calvin Lou SF Sent from my Verizon Wireless 4G LTE Smartphone
-------- Original message -------- From: Mark Eaton Date:04/19/2014 9:55 AM (GMT-08:00) To: cdlou37 Cc: David Assmann ,SFBirds@... Subject: Re: [SFBirds] Gannet Back Best directions are to find the lighthouse and go down to where two walls intersect. Â The "chimney" mentioned in previous posts is some sort of tower on one of the walls and not to be confused with the prominent chimney on the western edge of Alcatraz. Mark ___ Mark Eaton
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Fort Mason: Bullock's Oriole
A male BULLOCK'S ORIOLE was in the Fort Mason Community Garden this morning. Got so excited about the Northern Gannet that I nearly forgot to post this.
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Re: Gannet Back
Mark Eaton
Best directions are to find the lighthouse and go down to where two walls intersect. Â The "chimney" mentioned in previous posts is some sort of tower on one of the walls and not to be confused with the prominent chimney on the western edge of Alcatraz. Mark ___ Mark Eaton
On Apr 19, 2014, at 9:48 AM, cdlou37 <cdlou37@...> wrote:
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Re: Gannet Back
C Lou
Still being seen from west battery below Fort Mason by picnic tables. Calvin Sent from my Verizon Wireless 4G LTE Smartphone
-------- Original message -------- From: cdlou37 Date:04/19/2014 9:07 AM (GMT-08:00) To: David Assmann ,SFBirds@... Subject: RE: [SFBirds] Gannet Back Northern Gannet still sitting 906am. Calvin Lou Sent from my Verizon Wireless 4G LTE Smartphone -------- Original message -------- From: david_assmann@... Date:04/19/2014 8:17 AM (GMT-08:00) To: SFBirds@... Subject: [SFBirds] Gannet Back  Back on Alcatraz - visible through scope right of chimney
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Boat to see? Re: Gannet Back
Peter Grace
Off topic Is anyone interested in taking a boat out to view from a respectful distance? Please reply directly. Peter Grace Sent by phone without being spell checked.
On Apr 19, 2014, at 9:07 AM, cdlou37 <cdlou37@...> wrote:
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Re: Gannet Back
C Lou
Northern Gannet still sitting 906am. Calvin Lou Sent from my Verizon Wireless 4G LTE Smartphone
-------- Original message -------- From: david_assmann@... Date:04/19/2014 8:17 AM (GMT-08:00) To: SFBirds@... Subject: [SFBirds] Gannet Back Back on Alcatraz - visible through scope right of chimney
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Gannet Back
Back on Alcatraz - visible through scope right of chimney
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