Park Week 5/3/2024
Gas Meeting at the Yacht Club The City’s Public Works Department held an informational meeting about landfill gas under Chavez
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Western Sandpiper
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 2/9/2024
The main event affecting the park this week took place in San Francisco at the office of the Bay Area
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Park Week 1/12/2024
A Week of Extremes We giant featherless bipeds get aroused by the highest tides. And we should be concerned, these
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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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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 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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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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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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Pecking Average
In a recent post I noted the sandpiper’s method of speed-pecking, and hypothesized that the bird might only get a
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Mixed Pipers
A flock of sandpipers foraging on the mud looks at first like multiple copies of the identical bird. And some
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