Park News 7/22/2024
Three Gull Ages The oldest of the gull chicks on the concrete breakwater has found its wings and flown the
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Great Blue Heron
Park News 7/12/24
Gull Baby Survivors Sharp westerly winds on Tuesday and Wednesday roiled up whitecaps on the Bay and made for a
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Park Week 6/21/24
Singing in the Chill Mark Twain’s wisecrack about never seeing a winter so cold as summer in San Francisco came
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Park Week 6/7/2024
Work Day Sunday Chavez Park Conservancy volunteers usually do stewardship work in the Native Plant Area on Saturdays. But this
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Park Week 5/31/2024
Blue Scores Big I had no idea what this Blue was doing. The tide was at a minus 0.85 ebb,
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Park Week 5/24/2024
Trifecta First I saw the big one, the Great Blue Heron. It stalked around in a relaxed way on the
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Park Week 4/19/2024
Nightbird Active by Day The Black-crowned Night-Heron usually hunts by standing still and waiting for prey to approach. This bird
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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 Week 3/8/2024
Native Plant Work Day Tomorrow Calling all volunteers for tomorrow morning, Saturday March 9, for stewardship work in the Native
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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 2/23/2024
First Red-winged Blackbird This male’s fires were burning and he couldn’t restrain himself from checking out the Red-wing Blackbird Spring
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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 2/9/2024
The main event affecting the park this week took place in San Francisco at the office of the Bay Area
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Park Week 2/2/2024
Mower Destroys Sparrow Habitat The grassland on the southeast slope of the park has for many years been nesting habitat
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Park Week 12/15/2023
Season’s Greetings from Nature There’s no tree that shines in the winter season like the native Toyon (Heteromeles arbutifolia). This
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Park Days 12/1/23
Love the Least These Least Sandpipers, the smallest shorebirds in the world, have been living on the rip-rap east of
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Park Week 11/24/23
Rain Fruit What seems clear is that the rains we had this past week bore fruit with these mushrooms growing
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Park Week 11/10/23
Pelican Takeoff The Brown Pelicans are definitely back in and around the park. Not in the numbers we’ve seen in
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Park Week 10/20/23
Foggy Bird Walk Twenty brave and optimistic souls showed up Sunday morning 10/15 for a bird walk organized by the
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Park Week 10/6/23
Native Plant Stewards at Work The young native plants in the Native Plant Area got watered and weeded Saturday morning
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Park Week 9/29/23
Water the Babies Tomorrow Tomorrow morning, Saturday 9/30, meet at the Spinnaker Way parking circle at 9 for a stewardship
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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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Park Week 9/8/23
Native Plant Stewardship This blog took a break during the late summer weeks, but care and feeding of the Native
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Park Week 7/14/23
Heron’s Breakfast Hidden in the shadows on the north side of the Open Circle Viewpoint, this big heron reached out
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