Park News Feb 3 2026
With two events focusing on them, the Burrowing Owls in the park held center stage in the park last week.
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Eared Grebe
Park News Jan 24 2026
Chavez-Huerta Tribute Site Gets Award At the conclusion of the annual Martin Luther King Day breakfast in the Hilton DoubleTree
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Park News 2/28/2025
Owl Escapes Dog A Ground Squirrel and the Burrowing Owl saw the dog before I did. It came up from
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Park News 2/15/2025
Three Owls Steady Several days this week, park visitors could see three Burrowing Owls here. The new owl first seen
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Park News 10/28/2024
Owl Hiding This morning (Monday 10/28) a Burrowing Owl perched so low in Perch B that I had trouble digging
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Park Week 9/15/23
Birds of the Week The big bird news this week in the park was the return of the White-crowned Sparrows.
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Mixed Feathers
(Burrowing Owl Update Below) In the last two months so many park events have claimed my attention that some encounters
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Native Plant Work Days
(Burrowing Owl Update Below) This coming Saturday, November 19, is an important day for the Native Plant Area in the
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Ball of Feathers
In the cold shower and brisk southerly wind, this little ball of feathers was paddling south in the North Basin
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Morning Mirror
In the golden light of the sunrise, a number of waterbirds got busy on a glassy stretch of the North
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These Grebes Have Ears
Of course they have ears, all birds do. These birds got that label for the spray of straw-colored feathers that
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Horned and Eared
Photographer James Kusz hit the grebe jackpot with this video of a Horned Grebe in breeding plumage (video above), followed
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Eared? Horned? Small Grebe ID 101
Telling Horned Grebes apart from Eared Grebes when both are in winter plumage can tie even experienced birders in knots.
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Reminder: Birdwalk Tomorrow
This past week I’ve seen Brown Pelicans, Double-crested Cormorants, Bufflehead, Osprey, Horned Grebe, Eared Grebe, Western Grebe, Clark’s Grebe, Common
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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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Two Grebes
I saw these two birds in the North Basin yesterday afternoon but held off posting because I couldn’t identify one
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