Comments welcome here or privately (ppyle@birdpop.org) Foot of Ortega at 07:48 but was skittish and flew out to sea before I got any decent photos; some crappy photos are here: <https://ebird.org/view

Hi all - I was startled this morning hearing a "chew-wee" call from a flock of 16 curlews on Ocean Beach, SF, at the foot of Quintara this morning but it turned out to be a Long-billed Curlew in with

Candlestick Park. Directions to pond - From north entrance turn-around, walk east than north along paved paths for 5-8 min. Pond is between two M cypresses and the bay. Hiding a bit in cattails @ 2:30

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 mo

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, second-

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

<https://ebird.org/view/checklist/S55815948>https://ebird.org/view/checklist/S55815948 comments welcome on photos. P

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

FYI SF >Date: Thu, 11 Apr 2019 23:37:45 +0000 (UTC) >From: "John Luther" <aplomado-falcon@att.net> >To: East Bay Birds <ebb-sightings@groups.io>, > Countybirders Countybirders <countybirders@yahoogrou

<https://ebird.org/view/checklist/S54484812>https://ebird.org/view/checklist/S54484812 At 08:30 AM 4/2/2019, Peter Pyle via Groups.Io wrote: >Adult. 08;30. Will post photos. P >

Adult. 08;30. Will post photos. P

Posted yesterday at about 4 pm on Nextdoor. Short video shows two birds walking around on the sidewalk in front of a pink house. I can't quite age/sex them but not adult males. Might SF have another '

The gallinule, first found by Brian Fitch on 22 Feb, was observed today at about 3:45. It was skirting the back edge of the semi-open area of water about 40 feet west of the NE corner of the concrete

Some additional photos are here https://ebird.org/view/checklist/S52708418 Both adults (ASYs) at different stages of molt - p5 dropped and p9 dropped. Adults by lack of pale tips to unmolted primary c

although, come to think of it, could the tail tip (also) be oiled? P

Thanks Joe and Al - You are probably correct. All of my seabird reference books are boxed up at the moment so all I had was on-line images. There are some of young and winter adult RLKI that appear to

Hi all - This could be a first-year Red-legged Kittiwake. Worth looking into in any case. Not many photos on line of underwings of RLKI but here's one that shows a similar pattern: https://www.birdgui

They were certainly not there on the CBC. Both this year and last, 2-3 of us checked the entire concrete bridge area 3-4 times each to no avail. So it makes sense that they are primarily elsewhere in

Hi all - There was confusion about the naming of these parks during the CBC last Thursday, including precisely where we needed to look for continuing birds like the Yellow and Palm warblers. The area

Siobhan thought the Bald Eagle we saw on the SF CBC might be older than second-cycle and she is correct. I had thought p1-p4 were second basic and p5-p10 juvenile but they are actually (probably) 4th