Mallard

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Checking Out the Rip-Rap Job

July 4, 2019July 5, 2019 Mosey2014 0 Comments Anas platyrhynchos, rip-rap, Tringa semipalmata

The rip-rap rehab job is over, all but the landscape repair and the tidying up. A rusting bucket from a

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* East Mallard Schoolhouse Crxeek

Mud Yes Birds No

May 22, 2019June 3, 2019 Mosey2014 0 Comments Anas platyrhynchos

One of the lowest tides of the year so far exposed acres of mud flats on the North Basin in

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Mallards in Heaven

March 31, 2019March 25, 2019 Mosey2014 0 Comments Anas platyrhynchos

There used to be a marsh area just north of the picnic site on the west shore of the park.

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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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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 Crow 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 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, 2018May 1, 2019 Mosey2014 1 Comment Actitis macularius, Aechmophorus clarkii, Aechmophorus occidentalis, Anas acuta, Anas platyrhynchos, Ardea alba, Ardea herodias, Arenaria melanocephala, Athene cunicularia, Aythya marila, Branta canadensis, Bucephala albeola, Bucephala clangula, Calidris minutilla, Cathartes aura, Corvus brachyrhynchos, Egretta thula, Elanus leucurus, Fulica americana, Gavia immer, Gavia stellata, Haematopus bachmani, Himantopus mexicanus, Larus canus, Larus delawarensis, Larus occidentalis, Limosa fedoa, Mareca americana, Mareca penelope, Megaceryle alcyon, Melanitta perspicillata, Numenius americanus, Numenius phaeopus, Nycticorax nycticorax, Oxyura jamaicensis, Pelecanus erythrorhynchos, Pelecanus occidentalis, Phalacrocorax auritus, Pluvialis squatarola, Podiceps auritus, Podiceps nigricollis, Recurvirostra americana, Sayornis nigricans, Sterna forsteri, Tringa melanoleuca, Tringa semipalmata

The North Basin is the body of water between Cesar Chavez Park and the Berkeley mainland. When I first started

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