Birds in Fog Cormorants are flying over the Golden Gate Bridge in San Francisco

Here you can see some cormorants flying over the Golden Gate Bridge in San Francisco in a picturesque fog. These birds nest in very small colonies on steep cliffs and sea stacks from the Golden Gate north to Stinson Beach. Peregrine falcons are seen in their kamikaze dive, foraging along the coastal cliffs and have nested from the Golden Gate Bridge north to Muir Beach where the gigantic old trees are. At the prison island Alcatraz are black-crowned night-herons, Brandt’s cormorants, pelagic cormorants and pigeon guillemots too - the only colonies found in San Francisco Bay for these species.