Hi all Frustrating late afternoon yesterday around the Central Maintenance area in Golden Gate Park - and only in part because I and others failed to find the Blackburnian Warbler that Nancy Palmer ha

Hi all On this dreary day and after the excitement of Rachel's Virginia's Warbler I offer a little slice of urban birding. Yesterday afternoon as I was making my way up the hill on my usual walkabout

Not as exciting as the hawks (which I totally missed) but... Late morning through the noon hour there were interesting sparrows on the lawns and around the buildings at Fort Mason. In addition to good

Spent an hour early this evening on stakeout for the catbird seen yesterday but no go. However, there was an interesting empid working the thicket just northeast from the Play Field commemorative rock

😞 Likewise from ~11am - 1pm. A Say's Phoebe (FOF for me), a Chipping Sparrow, an Acorn Woodpecker (unexpected at Corona Heights) and a beautiful blue Budgerigar (presumably an escapee) were small cons

Oops - should be HERMIT, not Hooded Sorry for the unnecessary excitement! Richard

Odd afternoon. Absolutely dead at Battery Chester, and blustery at the coast. So, when I arrived near the docks at Stow Lake mid afternoon, seeing an ornery crayfish crossing the path near where the W

Yowsa! As many of you probably already know by now, there are actually two Ruddy Turnstones on Ocean Beach, roughly from Moraga up to Lawton. They loosely associated with a bunch of Sanderlings (resti

I am in shock. Russ was one of the kindest, patient and most forgiving people I have had the pleasure to know. In addition to his notable "finds" pointed out by Rob, Russ had the rare knack of finding

Hi all We tend not to look much at robins, let alone really observe them. Interesting, since they were likely one of the first birds that fascinated and amused us as kids, and no doubt launched many o

Hi all Well, "June gloom" arrived right on cue. But, perhaps because of the lack of sun (and the demands of parenting), it provided an unusual opportunity to witness some remarkable activity by owls d

Hi all The plucky Sabine's Gull continues at Ocean Beach, though seeing it is a matter of patience and luck (no real skill needed). I started at about 10:45 this morning (Apr. 8) across from the north

Or intergrades?? Late this morning (Feb. 25) at Fort Mason while straining to find the Baltimore Oriole - which was eventually sighted - the appearance of two Red-breasted Sapsuckers at the same time

Dominik Clearly a huge mistake on my part. I had no intention of perpetuating racist or demeaning language; I foolishly used an expression that is in the vernacular, without thinking about how it migh

Hi all Late morning visit to El Polin cut short by the rain. While there I heard a sharp chip call repeated a few times and found this generally yellow warbler gleaning in the brush, mostly hidden in

Need to clarify a couple of things: The Moscone Softball Fields are the ones in the Marina (not the diMaggio playground in North Beach); eBird Hotspot: https://ebird.org/hotspot/L13091031 Also, review

Hi all To the benefit of a MOB that showed up after noon, the Hammond's Flycatcher was again seen along the north side fence at Moscone Playing Fields in North Beach after the sun came out, flycatchin

But remaining distant. From about 11:15 this morning the continuing Loggerhead Shrike made appearances south and north of the Community Garden Pond. No luck initially when I came upon Brian Fitch but

Oscar (and all) Well, I guess. There is already an appropriate eBird hotspot for these sightings, to which I (and others) have submitted checklists: Ecology Trail. People have perhaps been confused as

Hi all Joined a MOB shortly after 10am (12/23) already watching the continuing Least Flycatcher in the brush and small trees at the southern edge of the Presidio off W. Pacific Ave. just east of Cherr