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Sutro Bird Watcher: Changing Seasons

Whitney Grover is a trip leader with Golden Gate Audubon Society, you can catch her leading a monthly bird walks on Mount Sutro, with...

Trip Report: September Bird Walk

When you think about a forest habitat and what birds may be found there, woodpeckers are probably one of the first birds to come to mind....

Trip Report: August Bird Walk

One of my favorite aspects of bird watching is the changing of behaviors and species seen throughout the seasons. August is a quiet month...

Sutro Bird Watcher: Northern Flicker

Northern Flicker, Colaptes auratus Grab Your Binoculars! Do you hear that loud call like a ‘squeaky toy’? Do you hear a long series of...

Sutro Bird Watcher: Golden-Crowned Sparrow

Grab your binoculars! Traveling in small groups, a migrating species of sparrow, the Golden-crowned Sparrow, arrived in late September to...

Sutro Bird Watcher: Pacific Wren

Grab Your Binoculars! Summertime. The Pacific wren is singing in the Sutro shrubbery, even as most other small birds fall silent in San...

Sutro Bird Watcher: Wilson's Warbler

Grab your binoculars! When in the moisture laden undergrowth of Mt. Sutro, watered by rain or fog, listen for the insistent call of the...

Sutro Bird Watcher: The Hermit Thrush

Grab your binoculars! Do you hear a low, gentle “cluck-cluck” coinciding with the double wing ‘flap-flap’ motion in a medium-sized brown...

Sutro Bird Watcher: Ruby-Crowned Kinglet

Grab Your Binoculars! December is here and with winter, migrating birds are arriving on Mt. Sutro. This month the ruby-crowned kinglet is...