Before green: aluminum. About 1:30 pm today a tan-striped White-throated sparrow, associating with about 30 mostly well-spread adult White-crowned sparrows, was feeding atop the pruned shrubbery on

Hi All, I will be embarking on a bird project with my class at an independent school in the Mission District in San Francisco at the end of January and am looking for thoughts on resources as well as

Birders, AT&T fixed the line. The Northern California Birdbox is back up and running. As before, it can be reached at (415)-681-7422. wrote: -- Joseph Morlan, Pacifica, CA jmorlan (at)

I walked up the hill to look for the Merlin reported by Adam Winer. According to some further information, it is hit or miss whether the bird is on the perch... seen there "once a week." After

HI ALL, From the concrete bridge at Lake Merced, there were two GREATER WHITE-FRONTED GOOSE seen on the south side. They were at first resting in the willows and later drifted towards the south end.

Golden Gate Audubon Field trip: Mori Point (GG National Parks) / Sharp Park (San Francisco): turned out better than even expected with a great group of birders and some uncommon sightings. After

Today at about 8 AM there were 3 Western Bluebirds along with about 20 American Goldfinch on the telephone wires at 40th and Anza. Between 1:30 and 2 PM there was a first year White-throated

Birders, The main telephone line for the Northern California Birdbox is currently down because of a line failure. We expect AT&T to fix it tomorrow morning. Thank you for your patience. --

while co-leading the Golden Gate Audubon bird walk this morning, I found an adult male ROSE-BREASTED GROSBEAK on the north side of the Arboretum, about 50 yards east of the succulent garden feeding on

Today I observed a gull fly into sutro bath with white wing patches. It was that rare color form of a HEERMANN'S GULL. This was the only HERRMANN's GULL I observed today. There was also a large

Went to the cement bridge at Lake Merced again today around 4pm and saw a SORA, four (4) WILSON'S SNIPES, a COMMON YELLOWTHROAT, two (2) MARSH WRENS, and a YELLOW-RUMPED WARBLER. Links to a few

Hugh Cotter and I birded a few locations on the ocean and bay sides of SF. Highlights were 2 hybrids. On the west side of the south impoundment of L. Merced, we again observed the presumed

Today I took my Ornithology class to Sutro Heights Park and the Cliff House. New was a HAIRY WOODPECKER in the same tree with a Downy for direct comparison. A female RED CROSSBILL (Type 2) was at

There was a White-throated Sparrow and a Lincoln's Sparrow in the williows on Strawberry Hill near the Chinese Pavilion. The Pintail was in ts usual spot. There were Red Crossiblls in the trees near

Birded the hill around work on the lunch hour (12:30 - 1:15 p.m.) Highlights: SELASPHORUS sp. hummingbird (in oaks/scrub, north side of park, possibly the same Selasphorus that I first found here

Hi all, This morning I saw a 1st winter White-throated Sparrow at my feeder. This is a new feeder/backyard bird for me. Good birding, logan

Sorry All, The possible Vesper Sparrow was actually a Savanah Sparrow. Good birding, Logan ----- Forwarded Message ---- To: SFBirds@... Sent: Tue, December 1, 2009 8:29:49 PM Subject:

from the NorCal BirdBox. Al also had a hybrid AmericanXEurasian there as well. I think this may be the first EUWI for the City this year. Dom

**Warning, this post contains some off-topic ranting weaved in cleverly among the bird reports** Checked out a couple of spots around Twin Peaks on my lunch break finding several birds of local

For what it's worth, the (wintering, or at least attempting to winter) female WESTERN TANAGER was "pittrick!"ing loudly from the big Myoporum next to 168 Museum Way, at about 4:30 p.m. today. I had