A few highlights were...At ocean beach there was a huge flock 200+ MEW GULLS on the beach. From the Cliff house a group of 20 or more BLACK TURNSTONES on the rocks with a WILLET and BLACK

Hugh Cotter and I birded L. Merced and the S. end of Ocean Beach Sunday morning. At ~8:30 AM while we were birding the east side of the concrete bridge @ S. L. Merced and were standing at different

Hi ALL, An oriole was in my neighbor's backyard for about 10 minutes. It is a young male bird. It's either an ORCHARD or HOODED. I'll see if it shows up tomorrow. I have sent some pictures to Joe

This morning an adult Black-legged Kittiwake flew between Seal Rocks and the Cliff House. There was a large flock of feeding gulls in the channel to the north but nothing else noteworthy. There were

Two Western Tanagers, bright male and drab female---perhaps the same pair first reported on Nov 11 by Jack Hayden, were seen yesterday afternoon at about 4 pm most visible in the fruiting trees

One more for the day list. Around 1 p.m., about half an hour after the rain stopped, a female type WESTERN TANAGER could be seen and heard ("pitrrck, pitrrck") in the eucalyptus tree east of the

The storm bearing winds seemed to keep the bird numbers down a bit today. However 17 paticipants of the 3rd Friday of the month Corona Heights walk led by Brian Fitch were still treated to 26 total

Dragonfly Creek restoration area: Fox Sparrow (5, one was "practice" singing) Hermit Thrush (3) Song Sparrow Winter Wren (foraging out in the open! in bare dirt!) Crissy Field/Lagoon: RED-NECKED

I was heading off to Muni this morning enjoying the sun and the Yellow- rumped Warblers when I hear the unmistakeable tew-tew-tew call of a (Western) Bluebird. I couldn't locate the bird without

For a long time thinking that someday an Autumn/Winter walk at Mission Bay/Rock might yield a Palm Warbler along a fenceline around a pile of constuction rubble or at a parking lot, or ground-feeding

upland marsh area of Heron's Head this morning from 7:30-8:20 had the following species of note: LINCOLN'S SPARROW, MARSH WREN and several Audubon's YELLOW-RUMPED WARBLERS. A second marsh wren was in

During twilight this morning, I watched two Soras directly beneath me at the wooden bridge at North Lake Merced. Another Sora and a Virginia Rail called nearby. At the Sutro Baths, two distant

Fox Sparrow, Downy Woodpecker, but the Scrub Jays were the real show. In the fall, there are a handful of Scrub Jays which go after the acorns in the Park's handful of oaks. On the rare occasions when

I wrote: "where the Nelson's Sparrow was present" It would have been more accurate to say, where the Nelson's was reported from the day before. My apologies for any confusion. Dominik

Glen et al, I too was present at HHP Sunday morning. There were several birds calling from the upland area with the gumplant/pickleweed etc where the Nelson's Sparrow was present including a well

Looking to the ocean from my home, I can see that a little bit of a feeding frenzy is developing just offshore near Judah/Kirkham. It started with a number of dolphins leaping, and within the past

I was at Heron's Head for a few hours on Sunday morning looking for the Nelson's Sparrow, and didn't see it, and didn't hear of anyone else who did. The calls that some of the attendant birders

This morning the albino gull was on Sutro Baths. To my eye it looks like a Herring or Glaucous-winged Gull, big with a fairly slender bill and flat head. The bill is light pink or sometimes yellowish

I did a bike loop starting near the Sunset resrvoir - Lake Merced - Wooden Bridge/Mesa/Concrete Bridge - Vista Grande Canal/Skyline Grove - Fort Funston Native Plant Nursery - Lake Merced Boathouse -

Hello, Bay Area Birders: The Oakland Christmas Bird Count will be held on Sunday, December 20, and we'd like to invite birders all around the bay area to take part . . . unless, of course, you're