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Message: <blockquote data-quote="Kibet" data-source="post: 3495280" data-attributes="member: 126488">Day 3 Sunday 20th NovemberFort Mason Community Garden (GGAS)“Heavy Rain Cancels” is often used on the GGAS website.  Define heavy rain though, as it was only threatening to be like yesterday. I decided to chance it anyway, and not wanting to get any more wet clothes, I put the slightly damp clothes from yesterday on. UK People, learn to appreciate our radiators, as “Air conditioners does not a good clothes dryer make”. I am glad I did, as the rain was off for most of the day, only coming down in force at the end. The Leader turning up early was a good sign, and with a brief walk in the garden with the two of us, seeing Orange-Crowned and Nashville Warbler before others started to arrive. 15 in total braved the weather, with one also from the Friday walk. As soon as we entered, we got a lovely example of a Golden Crowned and Fox sparrow. The others also got good views of the Orange Crowned and Nashville, so they did not miss a thing, I just got a preview. The sun came out to illuminate a perched male Anna’s making the head into a shiny purple beacon.  Followed by a Red-Tailed Hawk landing in the nearby pine tree at the edge of the garden, giving a good view for all. A few Lesser Goldfinch then came into the garden, as well as the resident Mockingbird with a funny white spot. Eurasian Starling sat on the buildings close by. Leaving the garden, we searched a palm tree for a Great-Horned Owl, to no avail, but did get sights of DC Cormorant, and fly overs of Brown Pelican. As we sheltered under a large pine tree, Someone spotted 5 Pygmy Nuthatches right above our heads. As we called an end to the proceedings due to the weather, and the end for the birding side of the day for me, I wandered up for Brunch with the writers. My jacket was dripping so much water in the diner, I got my very own “Wet Floor” sign. I dried off later at the hotel and went to the main Writing event for the evening, where 250 people eat candy, whilst typing on their laptops or scribbling in their notebooks for 7 hours. We also got treated to videos of how the outreach to have 80,000 school children writing their very own novels.Photographed Species 36/56</blockquote>

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