Park News 9/21/2024
Reminder: Equinox Gathering Sunday Eve The Autumn Equinox happens this Sunday the 22nd, and there’ll be a gathering at the
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American Wigeon
Park Week 4/12/2024
Conservancy Wins UC Grant “On behalf of Chancellor Carol Christ and the Advisory Board of the UC Berkeley Chancellor’s Community
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Park News 4/5/2024
Days of Tribute to Cesar Chavez and Dolores Huerta March 31 and April 10 mark the birthdays of Cesar Chavez
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Park Week 3/15/2024
Saving the Baby Natives The young native plants that Conservancy volunteers started last season got some important TLC last Saturday
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Park Week 3/1/2024
Conservancy Wins Grant The Chavez Park Conservancy has won a $5000 grant from the Alameda County Fish and Game Commission
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Park Week 2/16/2024
More Mulch There never seems to be enough mulch. The rain has boosted the native plants in the new pollinator
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Park Week 1/12/2024
A Week of Extremes We giant featherless bipeds get aroused by the highest tides. And we should be concerned, these
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Park Week 12/22/23
Weeding the Newbies Saturday December 16 was another Native Plant Stewardship Day in the park, the eleventh such outing of
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Park Weekend 12/3/23
Bits of Spots I hadn’t seen a Spotted Sandpiper for quite a while at the south shore of the North
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Park Week 3/31/23
Favorite Birds of the Week I’ll go out in the rain when there’s a Burrowing Owl in residence, but otherwise
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Park Week 3/24/23
Equinox With a Beat The first Equinox celebration at the Chavez/Huerta Solar Calendar in several years came together Monday evening
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North Side
(Burrowing Owl Update Below) American Wigeons aren’t exactly rare in the waters around the park, but it’s quite unusual, in
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Meadow Visit
(Burrowing Owl Update Below) A few years ago we had a lot of rain in March, and it made sizeable
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Visiting Wigeons
American Wigeons on their spring migration tend to travel in small groups. One of those groups, not more than a
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Wigeons of the World
This meeting between American Wigeons and Eurasian Wigeons, captured by photographer James Kusz, documents an amazing juncture of migrants. The
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Wigeon Trio
These are the first migratory ducks I’ve seen this autumn other than Mallards, some of which are resident. There were
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Finally Wigeons
I hadn’t seen American Wigeons at the park since April 2019, and the uncommon Eurasian Wigeon since January 2018. Here,
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Well-fed Wigeons
This female American Wigeon looks in the prime of health as she stands atop a tiny island just south of
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Canada Goose
On a tip from Phil Rowntree, who roams widely, I checked out the Berkeley Meadow (aka Sylvia McLaughlin Eastshore State
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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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Wigeons Veg In
A small flock of American Wigeons, maybe twelve birds strong, has been keeping busy near the Schoolhouse Creek outfall in
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North Basin: The Video
The North Basin is the body of water between Cesar Chavez Park and the Berkeley mainland. In the handful of
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