Hi, Saw a Ross or Snow Goose (either would be a first for me!) at the Crissy Field lagoon late Sunday afternoon. It was hanging out with a large flock of gulls on the eastern sandbar by the bridge.

From my office downtown across the street from the Ferry Building and overlooking the Bay, I observed the following to add to today's flight over SF: 9:30 AM -- a line of 22 TUNDRA SWANS flying SE

All, I got to spent all of 1-hour at Battery Godfrey this morning. (8.15 to 9.15) All the white geese/swans must have been south of me - I did have 100's of Cackling Geese, Canada Geese, Pintail,

I started the morning at the wooden bridge below the Sunset Circle, North Lake Merced, hoping for some rail activity. It was quite cold, with frost on the ground, and just as I was about to leave

I had a flock of unidentified geese flying just west of the GG Bridge this morning while driving across so waterfowl are definitely on he move. Mark __ Mark Eaton mark@...

Brian Fitch just called to tell me he's had four flocks of geese (snow, ross's and GWF) over lake Merced in the last several minutes. Feeling kind of stupid since I just arrived in east Contra Costa

GOLDEN GATE AUDUBON/ SF BOTANICAL GARDEN FIELD TRIP San Francisco Botanical Garden January 3, 2010 Group

Happy New Year to all. The 2009 SF City birding year was average at best with some good highlights and some big misses. We ended the year at 281 species (subject to confirmation of course) which

While I wasn't "officially" birding today, my attention was drawn to the sky by 6 of the Dolores Park parakeets/parrots (!?) flying overhead making a racket. But what caught my eye were 3 White

Hi all, From 3:10-4:45 PM I was birding on a boat in the bay, with not much going on. But at 4:56 PM, after I got off the boat, near the Wave Organ a flock of birds crossed my eye. Using my

This morning I birded some locations from Battery Godfrey down to Ft. Funston. Overcast, some fog, light N winds, high surf. From the Ft. Funston observation platform I scoped a group of at least

When are dogs more important over endangered spices?

Biked throught the Presidio this morning, 67 species to start the year. The Red-necked Grebe was just off shore of the Wildlife Protection Area. I could not find any plovers. Oh, by the way, it

Happy New Year! Marc and I were at Heron's Head today, and saw the male Harlequin Duck. He was on the rocks just off the right side as you are walking out towards the point. Marc got some

Stuck at work on this holiday I cheered myself up by starting on my '10 city list during breaks. An adult Cooper's Hawk and a _columbarius_ ssp MERLIN were both seen perched in the same cypress at

So a White-throated Sparrow was foraging around in the planter bed in my Glen Park garden at about 8:45am. It was a Tan-striped adult. What a nice New Year's Day prezzie! Happy birding, Roberta

During a walk along the beach south of Lincoln, my wife and I watched a single Brant fly northwards just beyond the breakers. The Gadwall pair continue on South Lake. Brian Fitch

the Colma count co-leaders are Jim Weigand and Russ Bright, and it was a privilege to work with them, although we weren't birding with them, if you know what I mean... Laurie & Jeff

In case they are needed, we had the following count week birds for the SF CBC: Aleutian Cackling Goose 12/27 Peregrine Falcon 12/27 Merlin 12/28 all at Cypress Lawn cemetery Laurie Graham & Jeff

Just back from a quick trip up to Fort Bragg, where the sea bird numbers were low by my limited experience. On Monday morning, as we were packing the car, a/the female Western Tanager began