Hi Birders, SOMA, as an understated and minimally descriptive CBC area title, roughly stretches diagonally from Duboce Park to Pier 94 from one corner and from South Beach Marina to Upper Noe Valley o

Yosemite Slough pond? I thought you would like to know that the pond has nothing to do with the state park around Yosemite Slough. The pond is part of Parcel E on the Hunters Point Naval Shipyard. Onc

Hi Birders, Our team hit the downtown area that consists of the northeast portion of the city including Lafayette, Sue Bierman, Salesforce Parks and Coit Tower, as well as some of the smaller Pac Heig

Hi All, during the SF-Presidio CBC, a Red naped x Red-breasted Sapsucker was sap sucking from some pines right on Park Trail just off the SW corner of the Cemetery. It seems to tend more toward Red-na

Hi SF and SMCO birders, Chris and I were a part a 3 team effort for the SF CBC in Area 12. Our survey areas included Sierra Pt. Brisbane Marina and Peninsula, Oyster Cove, Oyster Cove Marina, Oyster P

Highlights for Area 10 Bayview/Hunters Point that includes Candlestick Point State Recreation Area, Bayview Park, Heron’s Head, India Basin, Yosemite Slough, and Hillpoint Park on Tuesday, 12/29: Team

Yesterday as part of the Christmas bird count several of us broke into groups and in the time honored tradition, covered the presidio and surrounding areas as best we could. We tallied 109 species in

(Copying both SFBirds and Peninsula Birding because our area is entirely within San Mateo County) Juli Chamberlin and i led the area 12 team for the SF CBC again this year, which covers parts of South

Yesterday’s flycatcher at Moscone was a Hammonds not a Pacific Slope

The one found yesterday during the CBC was joined by a friend. Working their way through the canal and brambles around it across the road from the concrete bridge parking lot and then about 100 yards

Hi all - Follow-up message below to Scott Bowers on location of his dark-backed gull. I thought in a quick look that it could be a third or fourth cycle Lesser Black-backed as they can have a bill pat

Thanks to all who participated in our independently organized Christmas Bird Count yesterday. This has been a challenging year to say the least, and the new round of shutdowns in early December added

Hey, I just wanted to get this out there in case I am mistaken about the ID. This is what I believe to be a California Gull that I saw yesterday during the counts. Thing is, the back of this gull is m

Female heading south from Sutro with a small scoter flock. Brian Fitch

Swamp sparrow refound by Yvette MacDonald , vista grande canal near concrete bridge

The two best birds for yesterday's CBC on the Northern Waterfront were a continuing WESTERN TANAGER at Fort Mason, and a PACIFIC SLOPE FLYCATCHER at the Moscone Recreation Center Ballfields.

Join the San Francisco Bay Bird Observatory and Alvaro Jaramillo for a virtual 2-day Waterfowl Workshop! The Bay Area is an amazingly rich part of the world for waterfowl, and we are lucky that even i

I birded Buena Vista Park this morning for the SF CBC. The bad news is that I could not relocate the Yellow-bellied Sapsucker (with three visits to its old spot in the course of the morning). The last

Is this a common loon or some other kind? Seen in bay off Crissy Field on Dec. 25 Sally Whitehead

Seen on Dec 27th @ 2 pm between Heron's Head path and Pier 96/Recology.