Birds

Taking no Chances

The male Red-winged Blackbirds try to occupy the high ground to claim everything underneath — especially a female — as

Updated: Letter to Waterfront Manager (PDF) As in some years past, the Red-winged Blackbirds have expanded their breeding territory beyond

Cormorants seem like pretty drab creatures, hardly more interesting to look at than an American Crow. Or so I thought,

Photographer Phil Rowntree and his son Fionn were walking in the Berkeley Meadow, almost next door to Cesar Chavez Park,

This female American Wigeon looks in the prime of health as she stands atop a tiny island just south of

A Spotted Sandpiper standing still is an unusual sight. This individual found a barnacle-encrusted perch just above the waters of

This Golden-crowned Sparrow found many items of interest in the short grass next to the paved path on the north

While the male Red-winged Blackbirds perch on the fennel tops playing their trumpets, the females are starting work. The fresh

Artist Linda Morris, who did the watercolor of Burrowing Owls, also painted a Great Blue Heron she saw in the

I saw a young Night Heron on the south shore of the Open Circle Viewpoint in late February. This one,

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