While out surveying the plants at the restoration site for the endangered
California sea-blite (Suaeda californica) at
Pier 94 in San Francisco, I checked out what birds were around as the tide was going out. Pier 94 has the world's largest population of California sea-blite and is a successful reintroduction of the species that went extinct in San Francisco in the 1960s, but was reintroduced from a population in Morro Bay, California. In fact, we just had two spontaneous Suaeda plants start along the tide line. If you go birding there, please avoid the intertidal areas and stepping on any flagged native plants, especially the sea-blite.
Some of the bird highlights included -
