This morning there was a nice Long-tailed Duck in the scoter flock below the Battery in addition to all three scoter species including one female Black and female White-winged Scoter. They were all st

Foraging in the flowers around backstop.

I saw this at Mountain Lake this a.m. Would this be considered a hybrid, or plain Red-breasted? There does appear to be alot of black behind the head, but the only white from bill extending back to be

Just curious if anyone might know anything about these bands. It's the first time I've come across a banded sparrow. Seen in Lobos Creek this afternoon. David Webster

Seen just after 3pm today in the Lemonwood trees opposite the Goldman Tennis Courts / Pelosi Dr. Karen Offereins SF

A Red-necked Grebe was in the bay off of Crissey Field late this morning. One female Common Merganser was diving north of the Coast Guard Pier, and one, possibly the same bird was later standing on th

I was at Bayview Park this morning and when I looked down towards Candlestick Point, I could see white geese in the field. When I got down to the field west of the fenced off Aux parking lot, there we

Always a good practice, and appreciated, to report encounters with banded, wing-tagged, collared (geese) birds to the North American Bird Banding Program. Please Report Bands at www.reportband.gov A C

Work took me to SF today and I visited the golden gate park botanical gardens where I enjoyed three different sapsuckers- all in different well trees maybe about 75 yards apart. Sapsucker 1 - Mostly r

Common Merganser was upstream in the quartermasters reach, under the Marina offramp. GWF Goose and Common Goldeneye on the lagoon. Male GW Teal on the bay off parking lot. Dave Weber, Milpitas By phon

January 13 Birds of Protected Lands – POST’s enrichment of Bay Area avifauna Diane and Peter Hart Diane and Peter Hart are adult-onset birders who slouched into birding and bird photography while wind

Hey all, I might just be out-of-the-loop here, but Augie Kramer and I were surprised today to see a female Common Merganser awkwardly waddling its elongated body along the mudflats at Quartermaster Re

Heading home from North lake I noticed two GHOs in the tree they used to nest in a couple of years ago. The single tree on south side of JFK across from the bison shelter. One was in the nest, one abo

Happy New Year birders! Battery watch turned up 2 Brant floating reasonably close in about an hour ago. Maybe a couple 100 m out. They were near some floating logs. Stayed put the whole time. Good 202

Yellow Bellied Sapsucker in Coast Live Oak - north east of California Garden in Botanical Garden in Golden Gate Park - making nasal meow like calls

White-winged Dove well-seen this morning at Lafayette Park. Moving around west part, somewhat centered around the restroom. Dave Weber, Milpitas By phone

After a patient search of around an hour, Hugh Harvey and I spotted the continuing Rock Sandpiper on the north side of the jetty, 100+ feet from the end, at around 11am. Quite unperturbed, it patientl

The eBird Trip Report link below uses new functionality rolled out by eBird just in time for the CBC’s. It is a very nice way to drill down on the data from our January 2 count day: https://ebird.org/

The WHITE-WINGED DOVE last report in Lafayette Park was there again this morning, hanging out on the tennis courts with EURASIAN COLLARED-DOVES and MOURNING DOVES. And a NASHVILLE WARBLER was in the C

In cold, clear weather today’s teams in the field found 158 species, with highlights being Rock Wren, Redheads at two locations, Caspian Tern, Lark Sparrow, Heermann’s Gull, Black Scoter, Golden and B