Hi all Guess I have been discombobulated by the seemingly prolonged (but normal) rainy season and the (mostly) cool spring, but I was pleasantly surprised early this afternoon by my first

At the McLaren Lodge after a while. My FOS PACIFIC SLOPE FLYCATCHER made a short appearance, but the highlight was a calling HOUSE WREN in the oaks above the McLaren Lodge. Good Birding Joachim

Hey birders, At McLaren Park Sunday morning I heard a faint song coming from dense coyote brush that rang a bell of White-throated Sparrows I heard singing a few summers ago in Nova Scotia. Also

Presidio - Lazuli Bunting A sunny mid-day walk around the Ecology Trail awarded me with some nice sightings. A Lazuli Bunting was at the upper end of the Ecology Trail where the trail forks to go to

Daniel, that barely audible song at the beginning of your recording sounds right for White-throated Sparrow, which he have around the bay area during the winter and into the early spring in low

Hi all Another morning, more signs of breeding, this time in the Presidio. Had a fledgling House Finch and multiple birds visiting nests or feeding young. And... I'm baffled by a hawk I saw (poorly)

A nice hour+ this morning on Mount Davidson. Weather sunny and cool with fog burning off. Perfect spring migrant weather. Western migrants included: 2 Olive-sided Flycather, 2 Western Wood-Pewee,

Penbirds and SFBirds, As spring is often our windiest time of year on the coast, it can be rare to have a relatively flat day offshore in May. But the forecasts are calling for low waves, and

Well - #%&*#! Rather embarrassing this... It's an immature Red-tail. Of course. Though, as Keith Gress put it: "This is a hot mess of a Red-tailed Hawk". Nonetheless, I should not have allowed the

Birder Mount Davidson with Oscar "Young Boss" Moss this morning. Most notable were: adult male RUFOUS HUMMINGBIRD coming repeatedly to the blooming Sticky Monkey above the trail X/fence a getting

Just getting a quick word out. It's a second-cycle bird with a big long bill - thought it was a deform-billed CAGU but now that I'm looking at my photos the darker back and tail pattern may point more

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Peter It is a California Gull with a deformed bill. Alvaro Alvaro Jaramillo alvaro@... www.alvarosadventures.com

I've done some research and can't find close matches with second-cycle Black-tailed so will re-identify it in eBird as Gull sp. The back still looks dark to me for CAGU and I'd like to find one with a

Peter Hey there. I am confused here, to me this bird looks like a perfectly normal California Gull except for the bill. The bill is deformed, and apart from the shape, one telltale feature that it

All, Just for reference, I thought I would share photos of first and second cycle Black-tailed Gulls from 7 May last year in Japan. They are the top two photos

Hi Joe and Al - Appreciate the responses and will concede that it is most likely a CAGU, though I'd question first-cycle with that much dark gray in the back and this tail pattern. As we know,

All, My thought, from someone who spends a ton of time looking at gulls, is that Peter's gull looks absolutely normal for a California other than the deformed bill. This is an opinion based on

Hi Al - Appreciate your detailed response. A lot of folks monitor these sites to learn about these complex subjects and it's great to have helpful responses. Yes, "confused" is an operative word by

I expected more birds today considering the light rain and the date, and I covered a number of sites to try and fulfill that hope. But things were pretty quiet on my first day of birding SF after