Park News 9/6/2024
Getting Ready for the Owls Every time I walk the park in recent weeks, people have asked me whether the
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Park Week 6/28/24
New Gulls I thought I would take a break from the blog, going on a Summer Schedule. But then two
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Park Week 6/21/24
Singing in the Chill Mark Twain’s wisecrack about never seeing a winter so cold as summer in San Francisco came
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Park Week 6/7/2024
Work Day Sunday Chavez Park Conservancy volunteers usually do stewardship work in the Native Plant Area on Saturdays. But this
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Park Week 5/24/2024
Trifecta First I saw the big one, the Great Blue Heron. It stalked around in a relaxed way on the
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Park Week 4/19/2024
Nightbird Active by Day The Black-crowned Night-Heron usually hunts by standing still and waiting for prey to approach. This bird
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Park Week 10/20/23
Foggy Bird Walk Twenty brave and optimistic souls showed up Sunday morning 10/15 for a bird walk organized by the
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Park Week 9/29/23
Water the Babies Tomorrow Tomorrow morning, Saturday 9/30, meet at the Spinnaker Way parking circle at 9 for a stewardship
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Park Week 6/30/23
Birds Hanging In Three birds are showing great love for the park, or something, by remaining longer than usual. The
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Park Week 6/23/23
Water & Weed Natives on Sunday With all the dry and often sunny weather we’ve been having, it’s time to
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Musselcatcher
(Burrowing Owl Update Below) The Black Oystercatcher and the Western Gull eyeballing one another in the photo above both have
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Real and Fake
The first set of images here is real, created by humans with cameras. The bottom two are fakes created by
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Morning Birds
Photographer Susan Black got to the park early and was rewarded with these images of three of the bigger birds:
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Pelicans, Pelicans
Photographer Susan Black took these beautiful pelican images in the morning of June 29. This was one of the occasions
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Study in Contrasts
Photographer Susan Black captured this dramatic image of the breakwater on the west side of the park, boldly projecting across
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Park Week 3/1/2024
Conservancy Wins Grant The Chavez Park Conservancy has won a $5000 grant from the Alameda County Fish and Game Commission
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Park Week 11/3/23
Planting Day Tomorrow Tomorrow, Saturday Nov. 4, starting at 9:30, a group of Cal student volunteers will join experienced Conservancy
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Park Week 10/6/23
Native Plant Stewards at Work The young native plants in the Native Plant Area got watered and weeded Saturday morning
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Park Week 6/9/23
Killing Grassland Birds Bird populations are in trouble worldwide, research shows, and the hardest hit are the grassland birds. We’re
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Summer Birds
Many birds stay busy in the far North during the summer months, mating, breeding, brooding, and feeding fledglings in habitats
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BMASP: A Betrayal of Nature
Letter to City Council and related parties from Susan Black, June 28 2022: Today on my usual morning walk around
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Anna’s at Work
This lovely shot of an Anna’s hummingbird working the Pride of Madeira (Echium) plant on the southwest side of the
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