The "Mexican Duck" at Cypress Lawn pond. Where people feed them 800am. Calvin Lou Sent from my Verizon, Samsung Galaxy smartphone

Three additions to this year's count - Dominik Mosur and Peter Metropulos found a Mexican Duck yesterday in the Cypress Lawn Cemetery, Paul Saraceni had 2 Sooty/Short-Tailed Shearwaters on an ocean wa

Yesterday's Christmas Bird Count has tallied 178 species so far, down from last year's 190, but within our 10 year average (the weather undoubtedly was a factor). And there's still two more days left

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

Hi all Interesting duck at Lafayette Park today. I think it's a juvenile of the 'Donald' type. A Happy Holiday to all! Richard Bradus San Francisco

The tanager found by Anna Sojourner yesterday reappeared for a short time just before 1pm today (Dec. 26), perching briefly in a couple of different trees around the circle at the north central edge o

Just pulled up to 20th and Vicente and there’s at least (42!) Trikes on the wires above the intersection waiting out the rain. So the same spot where Ethan and Logan observed them a month ago. Maybe t

A count week ( male )TRICOLORED Blackbird was feeding on crumbs with the Brewer’s/Starling flock this morning at the 39th and Ortega entrance to the West Sunset sport complex (also the Ortega branch p

I went back out and could not find the bird again. Now that I can comb through my book, I think it was a Hepatic Tanager, because it had a distinctly dark bill, among other things. I’ll write up all t

Perched in the large eucalyptus on Eddy St. dark red all over, thick long bill, dusky outlines on folded wings, tail split like a finch’s. Came home to get book & better binocs and will try to re-find

The San Francisco Christmas Bird Count Week starts at midnight tonight and ends at the end of New Year's Eve. Any documented rare bird species seen during the next week, even if not seen on Count Day,

Greetings, I'm unsure how interested SF birders are in Scaly-breasted Munias but by all accounts the ones that have been observed in SF over the past 2-3 years are part of a dispersing and potentially

If you missed the deadline for signing up for the San Francisco Christmas Bird Count, we still have a few openings in some of the areas. Send us an email at sfcbcount@... and we'll send details. David

After several weeks of viewing expected birds at Fort Mason, a gorgeous LARK SPARROW showed up on MacArthur this morning (picture attached). There have been a lot of sparrows at Fort Mason, including

Gorgeous adult or subadult. 10.10am -- Nico Stuurman

Friday is the best day to drive early to San Francisco from Walnut Creek, so today seemed like a good day to try for this continuing woodpecker. After breakfast outside West Portal, I drove north to t

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

While wandering the waterfront in hopes of an arctic species flyby, I spotted a male White-winged Scoter not too far offshore in the Bay, even with the west end of Crissey Lagoon. Then over by the fis

Post-storm new arrivals this morning at Sutro included at least four Northern Fulmars. One creamy gray morph came very close to the terrace and flew into the Gate as far as Mile Rock. My personal high

Is there any way to get near the location where the Snow Geese have been seen at Candlestick Point by car? I tried using the Google maps link from eBird to get there today, Saturday, but all of the ro