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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Greater Yellowlegs
Better Late?
I saw these birds on the Schoolhouse Creek delta more than a month ago, and I have no good excuse
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Birds are Back
On Thursday last week I saw a number of birds, including some that I hadn’t seen all summer. I’ve been
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Odd Design
If you were designing a shore bird and were given a requirement for long legs, you’d endow it with a
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From Mosquito Bogs
Want to keep your mating and child-rearing habits private, screened from prying eyes? The Greater Yellowlegs knows how. It mates
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Yellowlegs at Work
In the extreme low (minus 0.5) tide on December 5, half a dozen Snowy Egrets and about twice as many
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Yellowlegs in August
Yellowlegs sometimes show up in the North Basin in winter. I’ve never seen one in the summer. This August morning,
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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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Greater Yellowlegs
This Greater Yellowlegs joined the gathering of other birds at the southwest corner of the North Basin as the tide
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Great Yellow Legs
The minus .07 low tide Friday afternoon brought out several kinds of birds who make their living by pecking for
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Mud Is a Magnet
The negative low tide at 4 this afternoon (a minus 0.14) exposed yards of mud in the North Basin and
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