Mallard

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Bottoms Up!

January 4, 2019January 1, 2019 Mosey2014 Anas platyrhynchos

Mallards are dabblers, not divers. Other ducks, such as Ruddy Ducks, Bufflehead, Scaup, and Goldeneye, can easily submerge their whole

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Many Mallards

October 5, 2018October 1, 2018 Mosey2014 Anas platyrhynchos

There’s a handful of Mallards that stay in the North Basin year round. This morning (9/25) they may have

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Another Unusual Mallard Female

May 17, 2018May 15, 2018 Mosey2014 Anas platyrhynchos

At first I thought this must be a goose, practically all white as it seemed from a distance. (See small

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* Burrowing Owl California Poppy Fennel Ground Squirrel Jackrabbit Mallard Purple Vetch White-Crowned Sparrow

Open Circle Area Reopens

April 28, 2018July 31, 2018 Mosey2014 Anas platyrhynchos, Athene cunicularia, Eschscholzia californica, Foeniculum vulgare, Lepus californicus, Otospermophilus beecheyi, vicia benghalensis, Zonotrichia leucophrys

The Open Circle art work, including the fresh air classroom and the border walkway, have reopened to the public. The

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Mallards Showing Their Blue Patches

April 12, 2018July 31, 2018 Mosey2014 Anas platyrhynchos

I never noticed the blue patches on the Mallards’ sides before. They are called the speculum. Their wings usually cover

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A Beautiful Mallard Female

March 17, 2018July 31, 2018 Mosey2014 Anas platyrhynchos

This Mallard female struck me as a strikingly beautiful bird. The way the feathers on her back and sides are

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* American Avocet American Coot American White Pelican American Wigeon Belted Kingfisher Birds Black Oystercatcher Black Phoebe Black Turnstone Black-bellied Plover Black-crowned Night Heron Black-necked Stilt Brown Pelican Bufflehead Burrowing Owl Canada Goose Clark's Grebe Common Goldeneye Common Loon Cormorant Crow Double-crested Cormorant Eared Grebe Eurasian Wigeon Forster's Tern Great Blue Heron Great Egret Greater Scaup Greater Yellowlegs Horned Grebe Least Sandpiper Long-billed Curlew Mallard Marbled Godwit Mew Gull Northern Pintail Red-throated Loon Ring-billed Gull Ruddy Duck Snowy Egret Spotted Sandpiper Surf Scoter Turkey Vulture Western Grebe Western Gull Whimbrel White-tailed Kite Willet

North Basin: The Video

February 12, 2018January 21, 2019 Mosey2014 1 Comment Recurvirostra americana Fulica americana

<span data-mce-type=”bookmark” style=”display: inline-block; width: 0px; overflow: hidden; line-height: 0;” class=”mce_SELRES_start”></span> The North Basin is the body of water between

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* Birds Mallard Snowy Egret

Catching the Rays

January 28, 2018January 21, 2019 Mosey2014 0 Comments Anas platyrhynchos, Egretta thula

Today’s midday sunshine with temperatures in the high sixties found a number of birds napping and soaking up the rays.

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* American Wigeon Berkeley Meadow Birds Black-necked Stilt Canada Goose Common Goldeneye Crow Greater Scaup Mallard Ruddy Duck Western Grebe

By an Early Light

December 19, 2017January 21, 2019 Mosey2014 1 Comment Aechmophorus occidentalis, Anas platyrhynchos, Aythya marila, Branta canadensis, Bucephala clangula, Corvus brachyrhynchos, Himantopus mexicanus, Mareca americana, Oxyura jamaicensis

I was in luck this morning. As I began my walk around eight o’clock, the sun slanted almost flat to

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* American Wigeon Birds Black Turnstone Greater Yellowlegs Mallard Marbled Godwit Tides

Mud Is a Magnet

December 15, 2017January 21, 2019 Mosey2014 1 Comment Anas platyrhynchos, Arenaria melanocephala, Limosa fedoa, Mareca americana, Tringa melanoleuca

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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