Saving Breath
It was 10:30 in the morning already, and plenty of people were up and in the park, so you’d think
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American Coot
Mixed Feathers
Coots, Mallards, and a few Scaup all share the North Basin cove amicably. There is some aggressive pecking among the
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Coot Explosion
The Coot convention of a week ago snowballed into a Coot mega-flock larger than any I’ve seen them achieve. There
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Coot Convention
The resident year-round population of four or five American Coots exploded this week as more than two dozen migrants flew
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Consolation for No Owls
I’ve been searching for Burrowing Owls in their usual haunts almost daily — sometimes twice daily — since the beginning
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New Coots?
The Coots that stay here year round — and this year that’s been only three or four, as far as
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Coot Business
This pair of American Coots look to be year-round residents of the park. At low tide on this day, they
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Summer Coot
So many birds go north in the summer that the waters of the North Basin east of the park sometimes
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Sharing Algae
Algae doesn’t have a lot of friends in the world, but Wigeons and Coots at the park consider it a
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A Coot Speaks
People all the time call Coots ducks. This American Coot is tired of it and wants to set the record
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