I've recently (last three weeks) begun feeding the wild birds in my neighborhood, via two methods. I have a tube feeder that I hang outside the bedroom window and fill with black oil sunflower seed; a

There were eleven visible Snowy Plover, crouching in the concavities of the beach just south of the dunes, west end of Noriega...about 6pm Friday. I did not have my scope so I may have missed some...I

Dear North American Birds Contributors, Apologies to those of you belonging to multiple list-serves who are getting this message four or five times! Please send your noteworthy records from the Middle

Hi,I was told about your group from Joe Morlan whose name had in turn been given me by Todd Newbury who has helped with some of my forthcoming family holiday to CA.Basically I will be in San Fran 24th

Murphy& I birded along the western edge of the city today: modest numbers of shorebirds on Ocean Beach: Whim Will Ma Godw West Sand(1) Sn Plover Sanderling at south end three Bank Sw nests were active

I had such great success birding down Arguello Blvd. in the S.F. Presidio, last Sunday, having failed to connect with GGAS, I went back today (30 July). Lesser Goldfinch are really abundant in the gra

Forgot to mention that Murphy and I on Saturday found two Cliff Swallows nest on south side of Merced boat house, one intact, the other already broken off the wall. Both had been active this eyar judi

I made a brief check of Heron's Head Park Monday to see if I could finish off a roll of film from my vacation. I had no problem there were actually some birds there! Snowy Egret � many American kest

...but it's time for yet another B2k update. Did anyone add year birds this month? Mark -- Mark Eaton mailto:mweaton@... SFBirds Web Page http://home.pacbell.net/mweaton Golden Gate Audubon Web Page (

Hints of passerine migration and the first fog-free morning visit in weeks. Observations of local interest: Band-tailed Pigeon 2 Allen's Hummingbird 17 Warbling Vireo 1 W. Scrub-Jay 14 (in 1 flock; hi

Rferrick@... wrote: > > Mark, > > Where do you find Marezine? Marezine is not easy to find in SF. Walgreen's does not carry it and I don't think RiteAid does either. The only place I know of is the in

This evening (Wed) over 300 Elegant Terns on Ocean Beach near west end of Quintara, gotta cross at Rivera or Pacheco, five Caspians as well south of Noriega were two small groups of Snowy Pl, total of

Woh, I duck out for a few days now the main topic is marzeine? whatever that is... While the exotic plant list grows weekly (over 115 for Crissy Field alone) there has not been a new bird there since

I spoke with Debi Shearwater yesterday and she said she has lots of space on the Aug. 13 Cordell trip and would be willing to give us a discount. Email me back personally for details. Debi said that s

SFBirders, East-Bay-Birders, North-Bay-Birders: For those of you do not receive e-mail from CALBIRD here are two long-distance pelagic trips originating in Berkeley and passing through the Golden Gate

I think it would be fun to get a bunch of SF Birds folks togeather for a Shearwater pelagic trip. If we get enough people we could get a discount. If we did a Cordell trip we might be able to arrange

No, I haven't seen one, but there's a BirdBox report of one at Rodeo Lagoon. This bird is going to show up in SF anyday, IMHO, and probably already has (but no one has seen it :-) Crissy Field, the Cl

Nothing of great note: 1 Greater Yellowlegs 5 Semipalmated Plovers, 10 Leasts, 4 Westerns and 15 BB Plovers at Yosemite Creek, juvi Cooper's Hawk in the area as well. Long Billed Curlew, Whimberel, Wi

Please note that my email address has changed to lesserroadrunner@...

Not SF, but yesterday (8/4) there was a huge raft (about 600) of Western and Clark's Grebes off Nick's at Rockaway Beach. Also Heermann's Gulls, Caspian and Elegant Terns, and Brown Pelican. Jan