I bought the 4 CD set of wn bird song by Stokes/Colver. However, I have never played CD's and know nothing about CD players. The stores have only 'discman' style portable players with headphones. I wa

Late Thursday, checked Fort Mason...no sign of Egrets...anybody know where they are "nesting" there? Late Friday, checked Heron's Head Park, nee Pier 98...it's filing up with windblown trash and hand-

The Elegant Terns that Harry reported from Ocean Beach were back this evening. About 20 of them at Rivera, in amongst 2 Caspian Terns, 75ish Heerman's Gulls. Earlier in the afternoon (4:30PM-5:30PM) I

Lots of migrating shorebirds in breeding plumage at Charleston Slough today, Sat. M godwits, wn and least sandpipers, am avocets, a few willets and dowitchers, a semipalmated plover, 2 gr yellowlegs p

Well, today was better than yesterday at the beach. True, the fog was quite wet and I couldn't see far off shore, but the wind was down so I didn't freeze. At Seal Rocks there was a Wandering Tattler.

This is rough draft for article in "Gull" ayt mid-point. RSVO on any mistakes. And who is "Karennani" from the BT PIgeon email? I couldn;t figure it out from my email collection which is not complete.

Peter: Here is article for "Gull" on the first half of the San Francisco Big Year 2000. If you need to shorten cut some of the chronology in lower part of article. Half-Time: Big Year 2000 Well, the c

This afternoon I stopped by Tennessee Hollow in prep for my GGAS field trip in Presidio this weekend. Mockers, family of four HOOR, party of two Les Gold. >4 Sc Jay RT Hawk PYNU, HOFI, AMRO inc. many

This morning I observed a juv. Hooded Oriole in the cypress and eucalyptus outside of our kitchen window on 17th St. (also perched briefly on our neighbor's TV antenna). This is my first observation o

Josiah Clark's article on Crissy, "Build It and They Will Come" on front page of the new "Winging IT"...alongside an article on Elkhorn Slough...makes Nor Cal sound like a birder's hot spot. Good arti

Hi, Is anybody out there familiar with impacts of night lighting on birds, plants or other organisms? There is a plan to renovate Harding Golf Course in San Francisco. It is the golf course at Lake Me

Dan: Try http://nmnhwww.si.edu/BIRDNET/OC/OCinfo/OCBv1n8.html, which is more about tower lighting, but talks about bird mortality, particularly in fog, when birds fly toward lights. There's also http:

fyi... Mark -- Mark Eaton mailto:mweaton@... SFBirds Web Page http://home.pacbell.net/mweaton Golden Gate Audubon Web Page (note new URL) http://www.goldengateaudubon.org "Under no circumstances was I

Hi, It sounds like Harry had a great field trip yesterday. Details follow. At Fort Funston today I had a Peregrine Falcon flying over the still active Bank Swallow colony. There are still over a dozen

COMMON TERNS are starting to show up in the South Bay; time to start looking for them at Coast Guard Pier and elsewhere. Mark -- Mark Eaton mailto:mweaton@... SFBirds Web Page http://home.pacbell.net/

Our walk through the Presidio yesterday was much less productive than Harry's field trip today apparently was -- did have the American Goldfinch and one male quail in the area behind the old hospital,

Swarm of feeding birds around a fish run just offshore from the Lands End parapet north of Sutro Baths...usual nearshore birds: gulls, cormorants, pelicans, Ele and Cas Terns...plus a couple dozen Co

Thank you Steven and those who responded privately: Your educated (and humane) responses have been of great value. I've taken down the feeder, cleaned it with bleach, stored it, and stopped seed scatt

See below...SF Tomorrow is a preservation and conservation group trying to stir interest in Htrs. Point...they'd like a birding trip...anybody interested in seeing if there are Burrowing Owls, Shrike,