Birds
A Painted Stork flies by while I'm crossing the bridge back over the Sugei Buloh Besar
Painted Stork on the hunt
A Pink-Necked Green Pigeon nesting
Dead tree
Another Pied Imperial Pigeon in the same flock in the process of eating a berry.
This Pied Imperial Pigeon is hanging upside-down to get at the small berries. After he heard (saw?) me he quickly flew away.
After wandering around for an hour or more not seeing a single bird (though ) could hear them), a flock of maybe ten Pied Imperial Pigeons flew in and made quite a ruckus. As they pulled the berries off the trees, berries and leaves and twigs fell in such numbers I kept checknig to see if it had started raining again.
Pied Imperial Pigeon hanging upside down
This was the only Lineated Barbet I saw that day. Apparently they are invasie and quite common, so I might get a chance later in the week. Though these are beautiful, sadly a third of the native species have gone extinct, and a 2016 Conservation Biology paper estimated that ~10 species went extinct without ever being noticed by humans.
A wind-blown Snowy Egret at Fort Point
I believe this is a juvenile Great Blue Heron, stalking fish in the Crissy Field Marsh at sunrise.
Backlit and reflected juvenile Great Blue Heron in the Crissy Field Marsh.
Red-tailed Hawk perched on one of the old buildings on Old Mason Street near Golden Gate Beach. Now that I've noticed him, I see him watching every morning I'm out around sunrise.
Red-tailed Hawk looking out over the Golden Gate Beach with the Bridge in the background.
A Robin watches me warily on the side of Metson Lake in the Golden Gate Park.
A Robin in the grass in Golden Gate Park
Western Gull in front of the ferry to Oakland.
The gulls around the Ferry Building are quite used to people and don't seem to mind a camera being pointed at them.
The gulls around the Ferry Building are quite used to people and don't seem to mind a camera being pointed at them.
The gulls around the Ferry Building are quite used to people and don't seem to mind a camera being pointed at them.
Western Gull at the Ferry Building
Stow Lake fly-by
Angry brid
Water landing
American Robins are common. In fact, they're the most abundant bird in North America. And definitely the most abundant in our backyard today.
Juvenile Short-bill Gull in Stow Lake
Canada Goose with a wet head (Detail)
Canada Goose with a wet head
Western Gull in front of the Embarcadero
Seeing the red spot on the beak helps trigger feeding in chicks. Tinbergen shared the Nobel in 1973 for this (among many other studies), bringing ethology fimly into the recognized sciences.
Rock Dove on Pier 14
Song Sparrow in the Crittenden Marsh