October 2006 Field Journal

10.1 PRBO Big Day in San Francisco
First of all, thanks to all who contributed to a worthy cause. For those who pledged on a per-species basis, Mark will contact you as soon as we have results from the Farallons and other SF county locales. Below is a brief report on our day birding SF.

Alan Hopkins, Matt Zlatunich, Mark Eaton and I birded SF from approximately 5:45 a.m. until 7 p.m. yesterday, racking up a total of 127 species during that time. Weather was ideal for birding, with light winds, high overcast, and comfortable temps, with birds active in most locations throughout the day. While we dipped on all the continuing rarities, we had a nice assortment of Western migrants, raptors, and shorebirds, and generally managed to see most of the expected species with a few surprises. Highlights included:

- Green-winged Teal on Crissy Lagoon
- Northern Harrier and Peregrine Falcon over Presidio Hills
- a late Pigeon Guillemot in the channel near the bridge
- both Virginia Rail and Sora at the Wooden Bridge, and a second Sora at the Concrete Bridge
- 2 Green Herons and a flyaway phalarope (presumably Red-Necked) at the Concrete Bridge
- Nuttall's and Hairy Woodpeckers at El Polin Spring
- Yellow-billed Magpie at India Basin
- Blue-gray gnatcatcher in the willows along John Muir Drive
- Hermit Warbler at MH2
- Spotted Towhee and Bewick's Wren at Presidio Hills
- 2 Black-headed Grosbeaks - 1 at El Polin, 1 at Middle Lake

The complete list is below.
David

Canada Goose
Green-winged Teal
Mallard
American Wigeon
Ring-necked Duck
Surf Scoter
Ruddy Duck
Red-throated Loon
Common Loon
Pied-billed Grebe
Horned Grebe
Eared Grebe
Western Grebe
Clark's Grebe
Brown Pelican
Double-crested Cormorant
Brandt's Cormorant
Pelagic Cormorant
Great Blue Heron
Great Egret
Snowy Egret
Green Heron
Black-crowned Night-Heron
Turkey Vulture
Northern Harrier
Cooper's Hawk
Red-shouldered Hawk
Red-tailed Hawk
American Kestrel
Peregrine Falcon
Virginia Rail
Sora
American Coot
Black-bellied Plover
Snowy Plover
Semipalmated Plover
Killdeer
Black Oystercatcher
American Avocet
Greater Yellowlegs
Willet
Spotted Sandpiper
Whimbrel
Long-billed Curlew
Marbled Godwit
Black Turnstone
Sanderling
Western Sandpiper
Least Sandpiper
Dunlin
Short-billed Dowitcher
Phalarope sp.
Heermann's Gull
Ring-billed Gull
California Gull
Western Gull
Elegant Tern
Forster's Tern
Common Murre
Pigeon Guillemot
Rock Dove
Eurasian Collared-Dove
Mourning Dove
Great Horned Owl
White-throated Swift
Anna's Hummingbird
Belted Kingfisher
Nuttall's Woodpecker
Downy Woodpecker
Hairy Woodpecker
Northern Flicker
Western Wood-Pewee
Pacific-slope Flycatcher
Black Phoebe
Say's Phoebe
Hutton's Vireo
Warbling Vireo
Steller's Jay
Western Scrub-Jay
Yellow-billed Magpie
American Crow
Common Raven
Barn Swallow
Chestnut-backed Chickadee
Bushtit
Pygmy Nuthatch
Brown Creeper
Bewick's Wren
Winter Wren
Marsh Wren
Ruby-crowned Kinglet
Blue-gray Gnatcatcher
Swainson's Thrush
Hermit Thrush
American Robin
Northern Mockingbird
European Starling
Cedar Waxwing
Orange-crowned Warbler
Yellow Warbler
Yellow-rumped Warbler
Black-throated Gray Warbler
Townsend's Warbler
Common Yellowthroat
Wilson's Warbler
Western Tanager
Spotted Towhee
California Towhee
Spizella sp.
Savannah Sparrow
Fox Sparrow
Song Sparrow
Lincoln's Sparrow
White-crowned Sparrow
Golden-crowned Sparrow
Dark-eyed Junco
Black-headed Grosbeak
Red-winged Blackbird
Tricolored Blackbird
Western Meadowlark
Brewer's Blackbird
Brown-headed Cowbird
House Finch
Lesser Goldfinch
American Goldfinch
House Sparrow

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