Calling loudly from Lobos dunes just now. After hearing it from the window I went outside and heard it again. Perhaps this bird has been sneaking around the Presidio for a few weeks or perhaps it’s a

Worn sub adult bird with whitish head and fairly thrashed wings. Circling and flying east Also seen by Cedric during our lunch break Josiah Clark | Habitat Potential | Consulting Ecologist | 415.317.3

A timed one hour rapid assessment bird survey by bike in the presidio this morning yielded 73 species. A Western Kingbird was in the Crissy dunes. Recently arrived hooded orioles at Kobbe and upton. +

Brandy Ford, Andrew Mcgann, David Wimpfheimer, Brian Browne, John Murnane, Hugh Cotter and I worked together to divide and cover the presidio yesterday, a very challenging task. Area three has the hig

In my experience the best winter sea watching conditions in San Francisco happen shortly after stormy weather clears after a hard rain. Wind and rain battered birds in the productive near shore areas

Look up if you get this soon! About 30 or 40 calling as they went over the inner Richmond District Josiah Clark | Habitat Potential | Consulting Ecologist | 415.317.3978 License #1043929 habitatpotent

Still present by tennis courts and redwoods, calling from elderberry Josiah Clark | Habitat Potential | Consulting Ecologist | 415.317.3978 License #1043929 habitatpotential.net www.youtube.com/josiah

Thank you Sarah! There were some non-believers in my contingent as well but encouraged that you could see your way through the details, as birders do. I am grateful to see these things up close and of

There is a single basic plumage red phalarope in with 15 red-necked phalaropes at the concrete bridge. On the impound lake side. Josiah Clark | Habitat Potential | Consulting Ecologist | 415.317.3978

After a little bit of search Cédric relocated the wagtail again over by the yacht club, just across from the Heron breeding area by the first slips and a small boardwalk coming down to the beach. We h

Highlights: hundreds of common murres Thousands of Brandt’s cormorants. 3 wandering tattlers, 2 molting surfbirds, 1 black turnstone, 1 herring gull northbound. With the clear weather and consistent w

This morning by bicycle starting at 8 AM I did it a 1 hour whirl wind blitz looking for as many species as possible during this ephemeral, peak spring diversity window. I ended with a near record tota

I was thankful to hear from Stow Lake rookery extraordinaire Nancy DeStefanis, who wanted to assure everyone there are in fact 6 active nests this year. Great news! Apparently they shuffled around aft

Yesterday I led a biking and birding field trip through Golden gate Park to the Cliff House for the organization Shaping San Francisco. Scheduled for the cusp of spring, this field trip now its 4th ye

What a cool sighting! I agree with Peter. Several sf birders watched a thresher shark breaching repeatedly at Baker Beach a couple years ago. This was the first ever Inaturalist record for the species

Let’s try that again...oops. Obviously never meant to send that first one my microphone picked up. The herring spawn has gone on and on, quite heavy and extensive from the ball park to china basin. Th

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Probably one of the best opportunities to look at gulls in the city all year. Josiah Clark | Habitat Potential | Consulting Ecologist | 415.317.3978 License #1043929 habitatpotential.net www.youtube.c

Yesterday as part of the Christmas bird count several of us broke into groups and in the time honored tradition, covered the presidio and surrounding areas as best we could. We tallied 109 species in

Yesterday took a small group of people from shaping San Francisco on a bike ride through GGP. Highlights included 13 hooded mergansers between Lilly pond and stow lake, 12 northern shovelers at Stowe