While out looking for vagrant landbirds along lands end, I took a glance down to the Sutro Baths. I was startled to see an immaculate white, largish gull. I locked up my bike and walked down for a clo

Hi All, Tried to call the BBox without success at this stage but this morning I had a calling Ovenbird at Fort Miley. This was the area just west of the Palace of Legion of Honor above the VA Hospital

Nothing rare, but a mix of breeders and non-breeders. Observations of local interest: Band-tailed Pigeon 6 Warblers: Orange-crowned 1 Wilson's 2 Bullock's Oriole 1 Pine Siskin 6 Lesser Goldfinch 14 Ju

Hey again, Harry braught up the possibility of the gull I saw being a young GW Gull,( which I commonly see at Crissy) I want to re iterate. This bird was WHITE. It was totally striking in appearance,

-----Original Message----- From: Stephen J. Davies [mailto:sdavies@...] Sent: Tuesday, June 06, 2000 1:38 PM To: Josiah Clark Cc: Sfbirds Subject: RE: [SFBirds] That gull Josiah and co I have not had

Hey SF birders: a big favor Please forward any Willow Flycatcher sightings you have to me, passed or present. Specifically we need sightings from Mnt Lake Park, El Pollin Springs, Tennessee Hollow and

JOsiah's post reminded me...hey, Alan, had pair of Cal Quail at Tennessee Hollow on little knoll above and south of the willows across the street from the flat that was past weekend. Harry Fuller www.

May results online. Ho-hum, Kevin out in front... :-) Mark http://home.pacbell.net/mweaton/Birding/B2K/B2KResults.html Mark -- Mark Eaton mailto:mweaton@... SFBirds Web Page http://home.pacbell.net/mw

Hello Birders: From time to time birders have submitted e-mail reports from Marin County with the side note that this was "outside the area". Well, there is a new birding listserve just for that now.

Hi All, I would again solicit any spring records and descriptions from March thru May for North American Birds for SF. Thanks to those who have sent them in, Hugh

So far no luck on the Willow Fly sightings. I always thought of Willow as the second most common Empid in the city? Dan told me all his Willows were from chain of lakes. I have at least 5 sightings fo

Witnessed my first "live" example of brood parasitism this afternoon at Pine Lake Park. I was checking the willows at the west end, when a crying, fledgling Brown Headed Cowbird appeared in an opening

I have slides of a DE JUnco parent feeding an oversized cowbird chick in the Arboretum redwood forest edge near the greenhouse about 5 years ago. Allan

I checked Mt. D. this morning in the hopes that last night's rain dropped some late migrants down, but no such luck. This week I've observed a marked increase in numbers of Lesser Goldfinches (18 on 6

Wednesday morning I saw 9 adult Pigeon Guillemots in view at once at the 'split rock' nesting area on the north side of Land's End; a higher number than I've noted there before. Behind them offshore a

Stopped at Land's End and the Cliff House this morning (8:00AM-8:45AM). 2 Sooty Shearwaters flew by the Cliff House just beyond the Cormorant nesting rock. There was lots of Common Murre activity, a c

There was discussion of Cowbirds earlier this week, and last weekend Murphy and I were trying to recall what we knew about Cowbird invasion of California...here is rough summary of research paper in S

escaped the airless building where I work to confront a gorgeous day that existed outside Mother Ruddy Duck with six ducklings...south of cement bridge, Merced...male was visible 100 yards away Four j

This morning there was a male Wood Duck on the west side of North Lake in amongst the Mallards. It was pulling feathers out of its breast, was rather drab, but had the distinct facial markings. Not mu

I am sorry if you got this already, it seems that most of my postings bounced yesterday. Quail Report Sat June 10, I�ve been out on the lookout for quail nesting lately. Strybing: Friday I did not s