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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Pelagic Cormorant
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 11/3/23
Planting Day Tomorrow Tomorrow, Saturday Nov. 4, starting at 9:30, a group of Cal student volunteers will join experienced Conservancy
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Park Week 10/27/23
The Little Oak that Could This little shrub may not look like much, but it’s a dramatic story, in a
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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 9/15/23
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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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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The Cormorant Show
Nothing amuses egrets more than watching Pelagic Cormorants. The shoreline game that I recorded earlier, involving just two Snowy Egrets,
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A Shoreline Game
At first glance I thought it was just a coincidence. I’d seen about a dozen Snowy Egrets on the banks
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Two Cormorants
When I first saw a flock of cormorants on the North Basin cove, an experienced birder told me that it
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Bird Frenzy
Pelicans, cormorants, and gulls combined in a mad feeding frenzy this morning, tracking a school of fish that erred into
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Cormorant Close In
I see this Pelagic Cormorant almost every morning. It spends the night in the rocks opposite the hotel south of
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A Day of Cormorants
With smoke from the Camp fire in Butte County hanging over the Bay, the rising sun made a red shimmer
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Sleepyhead
In the first few years of my walks in the park, I rarely ventured near the edge. My eyes stayed
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Pelagic Cormorant Bathing
This Pelagic Cormorant on the north side of the park appeared to be bathing. It was probably wetting its feathers
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Gull Gore (R)
This post is rated R for images that some people may find disturbing. There was a cluster of gulls near
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Cormorants Keeping Company
The high tide idled the Mallards and other dabblers, whose necks aren’t long enough to reach the bottom, but it
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Birds, Fish, and Planes
This Western Gull caught or stole a flat little fish, but had a problem getting it into its gullet. As
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Cormorants a’cruising
Scores of Cormorants cruised the agitated waters of the North Basin this morning. These local birds are fairly easy to
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