Peering over the edge of the concrete bridge at Lake Merced late this morning, I flushed a GREEN HERON, which flew over to the north shore, east of the bridge. A large group of very vocal WESTERN

For those of you planning to attend the Golden Gate Audubon birding walk tomorrow be advised that there will be a mini-marathon event taking place in Golden Gate Park which may affect parking and car

Male Wood Duck at Elk Glen Lake in GGP today.

I walked through muddy Glen Park this morning around 8:00. There was a lot of activity, including: Lots of robins Steller's jays Pygmy nuthatch Townsend warbler Anna's hummingbird Chestnut-sided

It was a sunny day for a change and the aquatic birds were making themselves available! Around 10am there was an Eared Grebe in the water not too far off shore from Mile Rock Beach. It looked like it

Hi Dominik, Now I regret that I'm not a record keeper. I had a significant gap in my birding in September and October up to about Oct 18, and I felt that I had missed Fall. But I did start going

Walking the Historic Trail on Mt Sutro around 9:30 AM today, I had clear views of a male Varied Thrush. I walk these beautiful trails provided by the Mt Sutro Stewards quite often --the dominant

Birding BVP on my lunch today was highlighted by high count of (8) GOLDEN-CROWNED KINGLETS associating loosely with a gleaner flock. The flock was working the cypresses/oaks/exotics above the newly

At 10:00 this morning the Teddy Bear class at Children's Day School (16th and Dolores) saw a large bird way up in our elm tree on campus that really really looked like a Harrier. Has anyone else seen

The female Common Merganser was still at Crissey this morning, along with three Red-breasted Mergansers, one of which was a drake. A single Wilson's Snipe was working the mud in the SW corner.

Checked Mt. Davidson for the first time in a couple of months on my lunch break today. A BEWICK'S WREN responded to pishing on the south side of the hill, posing nicely for this photo

I was also hoping to see the Snowy Plovers at the Wildlife Protection Area yesterday, but it was mostly dogs and their owners. (I probably just missed seeing Dominik there) BUT, as my enraged

Arriving at work this morning (~8:50 a.m.) I observed a flock of 15-20 BAND-TAILED PIGEONS flying N/NE over the Randall Museum parking lot. Around 1:15 p.m. there were (6) BAND-TAILED PIGEONS

The Great-tailed Grackle was very active this morning at 9:10 A.M. in the plaza near adjacent to the San Francisco Railway Museum. Allyn Bissell San Francisco

This year I've actually been seeing a little orange selasphorus off and on at my hummingbird feeder throughout the winter; I'd never seen this before. I live on the north side of Corona Heights Park,

There was a report from the first week of January somewhere north of the GG Bridge. Mark --- Mark Eaton mark@...

If I recall correctly, the first Allen's Hummingbirds close to our area were reported from the UC Santa Cruz Arboretum by Steve Gerow ~1/15/10 Dominik

This afternoon the COMMON MERGANSER photographed by Steven this weekend continued in the southwest corner of Crissy Lagoon. On the east side near the bridge I scoped out a RED-BREASTED MERGANSER,

the male woodie persists.  saw it this aft along with one female Ring Necked Duck, one Pied Bill Grebe, two Canada Geese, and many Coots and Mallards 

Hi all, Thanks Logan, Dominik and Brian, for helping me with the Marsh Wren. This weekend at the Crissy Field lagoon, I took some pics of what I initially thought was a female Red-Breasted Merganser