Two Cormorants
When I first saw a flock of cormorants on the North Basin cove, an experienced birder told me that it
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Birds
Pecking Average
In a recent post I noted the sandpiper’s method of speed-pecking, and hypothesized that the bird might only get a
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Birding by the Numbers
This website includes photos and often videos of more than 100 species of birds encountered in the park (“List of
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A Painter’s Park
More than a year in the making, the painting of selected Chavez Park creatures by Minnesota artist Bill Reynolds is
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Bird Gets Worm
There’s an iconic photo of this bird pulling a long worm from the mud, and I was disappointed that the
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Bug in Beak
This Red-winged Blackbird female has a bug in her beak. That’s a clue that she’s got chicks to feed, else
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Heron, Gopher, Dog
As a photographer, I was lucky. The Great Blue Heron stalked slowly westward on the meadow in the southeast corner
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Weed Ceremony
These big grebes — both Clark’s and Western — have an elaborate set of courtship rituals. One of them is
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Mixed Pipers
A flock of sandpipers foraging on the mud looks at first like multiple copies of the identical bird. And some
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Semi What?
I was watching a flock of some kind of sandpipers speed-pecking away on the wet sand when suddenly a different
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Scaup Take Off
When I first saw the dense rafts of Scaup on the water, I fantasized that they would all take off
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Looking Back (5)
These concluding selections from photographer Emilie Keas’ treasury of park photos show some of the most familiar birds and small
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Looking Back (4)
Photographer Emilie Keas’ collection of park photos includes these images of a favorite subject: the Red-winged Blackbirds. She captured both
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Looking Back (3)
This selection of small and medium shorebirds is part of photographer Emilie Keas’ collection of more than 100 images of
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Looking Back (2)
Photographer Emilie Keas has a collection of more than a hundred photos taken in the park, going back to 2016.
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Nest Hunting?
Alert photographer James Kusz spotted this White-tailed Kite way up high in a pine tree on the periphery of Chavez
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Heading North
When I was a kid, I used to love playing tag with the waves, running in when they receded and
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Mallard Moment
Bird sex generally is not a romantic affair. Many species do have elaborate and prolonged courtship rituals, but the act
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Night by Day
I hadn’t seen a Black-crowned Night Heron since last November (“In Early Light” Nov. 11 2021). Now this familiar bird
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