SF News Coyote Howls at the Moon (and Sirens) Now Pervasive Around Alamo Square, Numbers of Coyotes Uncertain Since late December, a pack — or at the very least a pair — of coyotes have been making regular nighttime noise in and around Alamo Square, even though sightings of the wild dogs remain few and far between.
SF News First Mountain Lion Spotted Going Through Santa Cruz Highway Wildlife Crossing: VIDEO Ten months after the Laurel Curve wildlife tunnel under Highway 17 through the Santa Cruz Mountains was completed, a mountain lion used the crossing for the first time.
SF News Nature Photographer Captures Photo of Unusual Ghostly Badger in Point Reyes Despite a large badger population in the Marin park, this is be the first known member with these white markings characteristic of leucism, according to park rangers .
SF News Photo Goes Viral of Santa Cruz Raccoon That Got Stuck Face-First In a Roof Hole A mother raccoon who was reportedly trying to rescue her kits from the other side of a hole in a Santa Cruz home's roof got herself comically stuck, ass up, and a local animal shelter publicized the photo.
Arts & Entertainment Three Owls Rescued From Inside Church of 8 Wheels on Fillmore Have you seen owls out and about in San Francisco? Well we have them. And three barn owls recently found their way into the Church of 8 Wheels roller disco on Fillmore Street — formerly known as Sacred Heart Parish.
SF News Aggressive Turkey Named Gerald Removed From Oakland Rose Garden, Exiled to Orinda The saga of Gerald, the wild turkey who had taken to attacking humans in Oakland's Morcom Rose Garden but seemed to have a specific hatred of older women, has seemingly come to an end.
Arts & Entertainment Marauding Gang of Raccoons Spotted In Golden Gate Park, Also a Coyote Recently a father and son on a stroll through Golden Gate Park came upon a gang of 14 raccoons, many of them juveniles, along a paved walking path near the ocean, and they shot a video.
SF News Video: Tahoe Bear Trouble Is Back As Bear Activity Picks Up Our scenic getaway to the northeast, Lake Tahoe, has long been a popular frolicking spot for bears, and SFist will breathlessly report any and all bear developments particularly when there is video. Bear
SF News Raccoon Invasion Looms As Pesky Critters Begin To Forage Pretty much all Bay Area critter populations have swollen with this year’s wetter and warmer weather, and we’re seeing flocks of wild parrots, whales, and rats of unusual sizes. But that
Arts & Entertainment Photo: CHP Catches Deer On Bay Bridge Early this morning, Oakland CHP officers spotted a deer possibly a young male, see the small antlers in the roadway on the eastern span of the Bay Bridge. Mistaking it for a doe,
Arts & Entertainment Video: Trail Cameras Capture Marin Wildlife In Thousands Of Candid Shots The Wildlife Picture Index Project, a three-year-old effort that has placed semi-hidden cameras near trails all over Marin and Sonoma Counties, is actually a worldwide effort that uses modern technology to capture wildlife
Arts & Entertainment Photos: Adorable Gray Wolf Pups Are Some Of The First Seen In California In A Century Driven nearly to extinction a century ago, gray wolves, also known as timber wolves, are slowly coming back into California and brand new wildlife camera images show a family of three pups, which
Arts & Entertainment Video: Rare Albino Baby Dolphin Spotted In Monterey Bay A rare albino dolphin calf, specifically a Risso's dolphin, was just spotted last week in Monterey Bay among a pod of Risso's dolphins. The sighting was captured on video on June 7 by
SF News Five Adorable Coyote Pups Were Rescued After Their Mom Was Killed In A Hit-And-Run San Jose resident Chuck Rossi and Silvia Restelli were so enamored with a coyote den on their property, they brilliantly set up a "Coyote Cam" to watch a mom and her five newborn
Arts & Entertainment Video: Mountain Lion Kittens Discovered In Sonoma Den Wildlife researchers in Sonoma County who have been tracking "clusters" of activity among mountain lions came upon a rare sighting of ten-day-old mountain lion kittens in a den last Friday. They managed to
SF News Whale With Head Entangled In Metal Frame Headed To Big Sur, Volunteers Sought This is no ordinary whale watch in the Monterey area. Instead, it's what could be a life or death rescue mission. A gray whale last sighted off Piedras Blancas on Wednesday and expected
SF News Uptick In Coyote Sightings Due To Pupping Season, Rains San Francisco Animal Care and Control has received a spike in calls from citizens reporting coyote sightings, and so last night called a meeting with SF Rec and Parks, community members, and wildlife
SF News It's Mating Season For Harbor Seals, But Drones Could Be Killing The Mood From February through June, hundreds of harbor seals sleep, mate, sleep, give birth, and then sleep some more on beaches like one at the center of the Monterey Bay national marine sanctuary, Hopkins
SF News Turkey Trotting Through SF Finally Captured, Poses For Hideous Mugshot A seriously unfortunate looking prehistoric bird seen wandering San Francisco streets was captured after sightings in the Castro and Alamo Square areas. Such fowl — wild turkeys — are rarely seen in the city, save
SF News Beware: Wild Turkey Sighted Strutting Around The Castro File under Wildlife Spotted Where They Shouldn't Be: A wild turkey was snapped by a Castro resident roaming the sidewalk on Market Street Monday, near the intersection of Castro Street, and that is
SF News Great! Injured Great Horned Owl Rescued In Vallejo A Great Horned Owl having a very bad day was rescued by Animal Control Officers in Solano County according to the Solano County Sheriff's Office and is going to be just fine. Officers
SF News Native American Tribe, National Park Service Planning To Reintroduce California Condors To Wild 15 agencies including the National Park Service, the US Fish and Wildlife Service, and the Yurok tribe who for centuries has inhabited the areas surrounding the Klamath River in California signed a deal
Arts & Entertainment Where To Watch Elephant Seals Doing Their Annual Mating And Birthing Thing Along The NorCal And Central Coast Check out my new blog post from #BigSur #California. Did you know there's a beach full of elephant seals?https://t.co/4wCo3U8IsX pic.twitter.com/2KOHT03T9V— Momentum Travels (@momentumtravel3) January 23, 2017
Arts & Entertainment For 39th Anniversary, Pier 39 Holds 39 Weeks Of Celebratory Events (Starting Today) Pier 39, a destination for tourists and, relatedly, sea lions, is celebrating 39 years since entrepreneurial businessman Warren Simmons took over the mostly defunct cargo pier and recreated it with a dash of
SF News Feathers Fly In Davis: Town Fights Menacing Turkeys With $20K Offensive So, in #Davis, sometimes a turkey just follows you. A photo posted by Will Keightley (@feverblue) on Oct 6, 2016 at 11:20pm PDT Davis, the college town to our north, has a
