Fort Funston
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Fort Funston is a former harbor defense installation located on the West Side of San Francisco in the southwestern part of the city. Formerly known as the Lake Merced Military Reservation, the fort is
A hang glider launches from Fort Funston
Recent photo of an emplacement of Battery Davis. Some of the earth covering the fort has eroded.
Steps from the southwest corner of the parking area to the beach.
A 16-inch gun on the road to the fort
Sand martin
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The sand martin, also known as the collared sand martin or common sand martin, and in the Americas as the bank swallow, is a migratory passerine bird in the swallow family Hirundinidae. It has a wide
Fort Funston
…upon windswept headlands along the Pacific coast and Ocean Beach below, above steep sandstone cliffs that provide a nesting habitat for a colony of bank swallows (Riparia riparia). The last remnants of a sand dune ecosystem that once covered the western half of San Francisco grow along the top of the headlands…
Sand martin, Guidel Plage, Brittany, France
R. r. shelleyi at Abbassia, Egypt
Showing dark breast band
Adult at nest site, Dziwnówek, Poland