A HALF DAY IN SAN FRANCISO
A Half Day in San Francisco, October 29, 2005.
Here's the list from a morning birding with keen British birder, Andrew Pickett. He is an experienced birder in America but he added several new lifers to his list.
- Double-crested Cormorant
- Brown Pelican
- Great Blue Heron
- Great Egret
- Snowy Egret
- Western Grebe
- Clarks' Grebe
- Pied-billed Grebe
- Eared (Black-necked) Grebe
- American Coot
- Red-shouldered Hawk
- Red-tailed Hawk
- Sharp-shinned Hawk
- Cooper's Hawk
- Cackling Goose
- Mallard
- Am. Wigeon
- Gadwall
- Ring-necked Duck
- Greater Scaup
- Hooded Merganser
- Western Gull
- Glaucous-winged Gull
- California Gull
- Ring-billed Gull
- Heermann's Gull
- Mew (Common) Gull
- Black-bellied (Grey) Plover
- Snowy (Kentish) Plover
- Killdeer
- Long-billed Curlew
- Willet
- Marbled Godwit
- Sanderling
- 35 Black Turnstone
- 36 Western Sandpiper
- Surfbird
- Rock Dove
- Mourning Dove
- Anna's Hummingbird
- Belted Kingfisher
- Northern Flicker
- Am. Crow
- Common Raven
- Western Scrub-jay
- Steller's Jay
- European Starling
- Brown-headed Cowbird
- Brewer's Blackbird
- Red-winged Blackbird
- Nor. Mockingbird
- Brown Creeper
- Pygmy Nuthatch
- Black Phoebe
- Marsh Wren
- Am. Robin
- Hermit Thrush
- Bushtit
- Chestnut-backed Chickadee
- Townsend's Warbler
- Yellow-rumped Warbler
- Golden-crowned Sparrow
- White-crowned Sparrow
- Song Sparrow
- Fox Sparrow
- Clay-colored Sparrow
- Dark-eyed Junco
- California Towhee
- Spotted Towhee
- House Finch
- Lesser Goldfinch
- Ruddy Duck
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