Park People Profile: Phil Rowntree
Phil Rowntree is or should be a familiar name to readers of this blog. He has published more than two
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Red-tailed Hawk by Phil Rowntree
Park visitor Phil Rowntree snapped this Red-tailed Hawk at sunrise in the park on December 7 with his cellphone. He
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Park Week 6/2/23
TLC for Native Plant Babies The native plant babies that Conservancy volunteers put in the ground last November got a
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Park Week 4/28/23
Earth Day at Bay Fair After three years in limbo for Covid-19, the Bay Fair bounced back to life at
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Conservancy: Annual Report 2022
Your Chavez Park Conservancy played a meaningful role in the park this year. We initiated and led a successful public
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Otter of the Year
(Burrowing Owl Update Below) I had to run to catch up with this one. It was swimming north close in
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Immense World: Reading Notes (1)
(Burrowing Owl Update Below) Ed Yong is the author of I Contain Multitudes: the Microbes Within Us and a Grander
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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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Down to Earth with the Coast Guard
The hardy group of Chavez Park Conservancy volunteers who have been watering, pulling weeds and trimming deadwood in the Native
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Doe Next Door
The sharp eye and fast shutter-finger of photographer Phil Rowntree captured this doe jumping a fence in the Sylvia McLaughlin
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Saturday Park Care
A hard-working crew of volunteers turned out on Saturday morning May 28 to care for the Native Plant Area on
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Apex Raptor
As promised, here are additional images of the top feathered predator in the park. I saw this bird initially as
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Two On Fence
Two — or one? — Red-tailed Hawks posed for their portraits on the fence along the Virginia Street Extension recently.
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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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Third Otter
Seeing a River Otter here is a rare treat. I saw one in March 2019, and photographer James Kusz saw
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Red-tail’s Revenge
On October 15 I published a photo by Phil Rowntree showing a Red-tailed Hawk apparently fleeing a Ground Squirrel that
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Crazy Squirrel
We’re accustomed to thinking of big raptors like this Red-tailed Hawk terrorizing little mammals such as Ground Squirrels. But photographer
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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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Supervisor
Work crews have begun the transformation of University Avenue between the freeway and Marina Boulevard, one of the worst stretches
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Rest Break
In mid-May, photographer Phil Rowntree caught one of these hyperactive flyers resting on a fence (“Burrowing Swallow” May 13 2021).
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