Park Week 4/28/23
Earth Day at Bay Fair After three years in limbo for Covid-19, the Bay Fair bounced back to life at
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Birds
Park Week 4/21/23
Hard Workers More than 20 Cal students showed up for the Chavez Park Conservancy Stewardship Day on Saturday April 15,
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Park Week 4/14/23
Native Plant Stewardship Day Tomorrow On Saturday, 4/15, a number of UC students will be volunteering their time and energy at
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Park Week 4/7/23
Kudos to Kamen for April 1 Post The test of a good April Fool’s joke is that people think it’s
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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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Park Week 3/24/23
Equinox With a Beat The first Equinox celebration at the Chavez/Huerta Solar Calendar in several years came together Monday evening
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Park Week 3/17/23
After a Spring Break, the daily Chavez Park blog is coming back as a weekly. Every Friday at 5, subscribers
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Guest Gallery: Dylan Law
Park visitor Dylan Law is one of the photographers who showed up to take pictures of the Burrowing Owl when
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Guest Gallery: Sara Sato
Among the wonderful park visitors who stopped to look at the Burrowing Owl in Perch B while it was here
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North Side
(Burrowing Owl Update Below) American Wigeons aren’t exactly rare in the waters around the park, but it’s quite unusual, in
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Owl’s Last Day?
Last year, the owl that perched on the rocks on the eastern slope of the Burrowing Owl Sanctuary departed for
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Growing Up
(Burrowing Owl Update Below) These two young White-crowned Sparrows probably hatched next to one another within a few hours, but
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Biggest Bird
On my way to see the Burrowing Owl, I ran into a string of Berkeley Fire vehicles. The Berkeley Fire
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Grebes Big and Small
(Burrowing Owl Update Below) On my way back from observing the Burrowing Owl I could not miss this big grebe
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Pecking Away
(Burrowing Owl Update Below) A low tide of 0.3 feet shortly after noon exposed a few yards of mudflats along
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Owl is Back
A thick layer of fog blanketed the Marina this morning, but the Burrowing Owl was in its customary spot at
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Owl Takes Off
Sunday morning is usually busy in the park, and almost everyone who passed wanted to see the owl. The visitors
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Sharp Kite
(Burrowing Owl Update Below) Among the sharpest and most beautiful pictures of a White-tailed Kite in the park are these
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Famous Owl
Where do many local birders get their local bird news from? The New York Times, of course. Yesterday the print
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On the Way
(Burrowing Owl Update Below) Such is the bounty of nature in the park these days that on my walk from
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Owl in the News
Thanks to park visitor Isabelle Gaston, the Burrowing Owl in the park was in the New York Times this morning,
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