On Halloween 2019, between 10:15 and 12:30, some or all of Lee Hong-chang, Brian Turner, Rudy Walken, Lee from Melbourne and I sighted innumerable Ruby crowned kinglets, yellow rumped warblers and Tow

Hi Birders, Wasn’t going to report this, but Ebird added it to my SF list, so maybe it’s countable, or just a glitch? Prefer more evocative Nutmeg Mannikin for this, but never mind... Barely definitiv

Hey Folks, Not as exciting as other reports from today, but FYI, I saw a 3-5 Golden Crowned Kinglets in the botanical garden this morning. A Ruby Crowned, crown flashing, chased a couple out of the wa

Trike or treat, Just startled a Sora (or some waterbird wearing a Sora costume) 150 yards from the NE corner of the lake. It shook me after a couple minutes. Dan

Today around 2:30 Orchard Oriole (Orchard) Number observed:1 Details:pale yellow breast and lower front, browish head, back and wings, two distinct white wing bars, narrow dark, long bill, in bushes o

This bird was found by Rudy Wallen two days ago. In overall plumage it seems in the overlap zone between an HY female Blue-headed Vireo and an adult male Cassin's Vireo - perhaps an HY male Cassin's c

Hi Birders, Yesterday I found this late empid (see photos) in an odd place, feeding from low snags under a shady, and over a weedy water district pool along 7th Avenue between the Laguna Honda reservo

Just flew over Noe and 14th heading west 7:45 Brian Fitch

Hi Birders, It’s been in and near the English Elm, adjacent oak and the sapsucker-pocked tree near the paved walkway along the Zellerbach Garden lawn. Also using the nearby shrubs, but always returned

Hi all Finally able to get online to post. On a generally quiet visit to the East Wash I got brief but good looks at an Evening Grosbeak as it perched for a few moments atop the central pine around 12

It was a much quieter and smokier morning at BG, spent with Kevin most of the time and Dom for a while. The highlight for Kevin and I was a Rough-legged Hawk flying north pretty early. It was likely t

Took a break from the home remodel project and went with Noreen to Pier 94 late afternoon. She and a grad student at SFSU are doing an interesting Olympian Oyster study that Smithsonian is sponsoring

Folks, I birded this morning at Battery Godfrey, and then after being home for a few hours, for an hour this evening at Lake Merced. Stuff is moving around in the wind storm for sure. I expect the nex

We have had two Rough-legged Hawks from Battery Godfrey you n the last 20 minutes. The first a pale morph, second a darker adult, both at close range. The second started to cross the gate but turned a

Doing yard work paid off. I had two (possibly more) Red Crossbills in the trees above the entrance at 28th and Pacheco about 20 minutes ago. Siobhan Ruck, SF

Good morning, arrived at the bottom of the falls on 10/26 @ 9 to find a large flock of yellow rumped warblers drinking and bathing with a few Townsend's. At the upper wooden bridge, got a good close u

Another weak raptor showing, but ducks made up for it, and another hit of Evening Grosbeaks, males this time. Birders included Dominik Mosur, Joachim Gonzalez, Jonah Benningfield, Peter Pyle, Josiah C

Two female evenings just flew over heading north them turning east at Land's end between east wash and west Visible and calling loudly. Brian Fitch. 8 55 am

Today around 1:30 I found a Black-throated Green Warbler in the stand of six poplars just east of Drumm Street in the Eastern section of the park. There were several Yellow-rumped Warblers it was loos

Just flew over my head going south, gave classic ‘kiddle’ call 4 times. Absolutely insane Oscar