Banded Hunter With Friend and Paperwork
Photographer and model glider pilot Gérard Menut captured these images a year ago. He first saw both birds on Sept.
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Apricot Mallard
Photographer David Hauer spotted this unusually colorful female Mallard in the North Basin. At least three males surrounded her. David
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Banded Hunter Returns
Photographers Phil Rowntree and David Hauer separately photographed this big Red-tailed Hawk in October. See “Supervisor,” Oct. 8 2021, and
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A Prettier Plover
A Black-bellied Plover showed up when I checked the Schoolhouse Creek mudflats on October 1 (“Long Time No See, Oct.
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Still Here
At sunrise Thursday, both of the Burrowing Owls first spotted on Tuesday were still present and in the same locations.
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Banded Hunter
Photographer David Hauer saw this big Red-tailed Hawk with a wriggling juvenile Gopher Snake in its beak. Looking at the
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Owl AM/PM ++
The Burrowing Owl in the Nature Area on the north side of the park held its position all day Tuesday.
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Raptor Question (Updated)
Updated 2/12: Photographer David Hauer thought he had imaged a Cooper’s Hawk, and so did I, but several readers weren’t
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Horned Pair
David Hauer writes: “I parked opposite the marina around 30 minutes before sunrise on Monday, and immediately spied my friend
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Giant Sparrow
OK, OK, I know the Great Blue Heron is not a sparrow. It belongs to the Ardeidea bird family, which
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Solstice Card
In this very difficult year, Cesar Chavez Park has been a priceless resource. From the beginning, we’ve made clear that
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One Good Tern
Like Barn Swallows, terns move fast, change direction suddenly, and are almost never seen perched and resting. This quality also
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Green Heron
Green Herons are seen occasionally in nearby Aquatic Park, but I’ve not seen one in Cesar Chavez. Now David Hauer
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Barn Owl in Air
Photographer David Hauer, whose work has appeared here several times, captured these images of an adult Barn Owl in flight
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Rock Steady
This bird held so still that at first I mistook it for a stone. The Black-crowned Night Heron easily outdoes
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Snowy Ballet
Photographer David Hauer snapped this pair of Snowy Egrets doing a pas de deux in the ebb tide on the
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Crow of the Night
A tree not far from the park entrance is the habitual perch of this Black-crowned Night Heron, seen here preening.
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