At 7:50 am a flock of ~30 Glossy Ibis flew south past seawatch over the ocean then turned inland and flew east just north of Ft Funston towards Lake Merced. Keep your eyes open for these. Will get

From Birdcast: 17-19 May 2020 may provide opportunities to experience an interesting, and rare, shorebird event to the Pacific Coast of North America. An approaching strong storm system well timed to

Still here! Just sang again for a few minutes at around 15:45. Now quiet.

TELL IT TO STAY PUT

Still singing at lily pond at 1:15

Thanks Brian! The Parula was singing quite a bit when I arrived at 9:30 from trees on the hill above the south of the lake, then while foraging in the acacias above the west side, occasionally into

Not sure about anyone else but I’ve been quite disoriented by the weather recently. Maybe the birds have too, certainly it’s the most spring vagrants SF has seen in a decade or more. I was very

Parula still singing loudly as of 9:30. Because the Lily Pond trail remains closed to pedestrian traffic I'd advise observing this bird atop the hill at east end of the Rhodedendon Dell. Good

Currently singing on the south end of the Pond where the cut up dead branches are. Good Birding, Joachim Gonzalez

During an evening walk at Crissy tonight, May 14,the Laughing Gull was present on the middle island. There was also a continuing Mew Gull and a Boneparts Gull. Last night at Crissy there was a

Up the trail that begins off JFK Dr just East of skating area. Just after the trail levels off. Foraging in large tree that overhangs the trail and I'm bushes to the South of the trail. Singing often.

Two of the ROSE-BREASTED GROSBEAKS continued this morning at El Polin Springs.

Aaron Western Great-tailed Grackles usually require marsh, wetland or a pond to nest. I am sure that having put that down in a statement, I will get a ton of comments on this not being the case.

Twice this morning a pair of Great-tailed Grackles have flown right by my home office window while I was on a conference call. This is near Mission x Cesar Chavez in a part of the city that has

Here’s another paper on the 1992 invasion. https://sora.unm.edu/sites/default/files/journals/auk/v113n04/p0911-p0923.pdf Interestingly, Patten et al. Linked it to anomalous El Nino conditions. I

Hi Birders, As John mentioned, the spring of 1992 was indeed one to remember. For the many of you who were not birding then, here’s a brief summary from the California Bird Records Committee 18th

As of 7 AM this morning, I found a male Black-throated Blue Warbler at the entrance to the Fuchsia Dell of Eastern GGP. It flitted about for around a minute before flying off, and I was not able to

Since many people (myself included) are sharing audio recordings of migrants found in the city via eBird, I thought I'd relay a note I got from the folks at Macaulay Library: The processing time at

On an evening walk around McNab Lake, Teresa and I found a female/immature male Summer tanager in the pines near the northwest corner of the lake where Yale St. ends at the park. We heard soft "pituk"

So many sharp eyed birders out this morning working together to cover all the best spots in GGP. Jonah heard a bird that sounded like a northern parula at the rhododendron Dell. Auggie Kramer had a