Birds

Crow & Clam

This American Crow worked the low tide just as if it were a Black Oystercatcher, foraging for shellfish. But when

This looks like parents and chicks waking up, doing the morning ritual of preening together. In fact these are two

This White-crowned Sparrow gave a little concert in the early sun, and then pounced on nature’s breakfast of fennel seeds,

It’s the time of year when sparrows sing, and none more enthusiastically than the Song Sparrow. These males could be

This California Towhee may be looking for a mate. Why else sing so persistently? Generally, towhees mate and pair up

It was a total surprise to see this adult male Surf Scoter off the west shore of the park. It

The yellowish spot over the eye marks this little windblown creature as a Savannah Sparrow, so named because the naturalist

Photographer Phil Rowntree captured this image of a male Western Bluebird on the fence along the Virginia Street extension. The

It’s the time of year when birds that migrated south late last year are heading back north again to their

Red-winged Blackbirds have been visiting the northwest corner of the park since January, but they were all males, and there

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