Park News 9/6/2024
Getting Ready for the Owls Every time I walk the park in recent weeks, people have asked me whether the
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Gopher Snake
Park Week 3/1/2024
Conservancy Wins Grant The Chavez Park Conservancy has won a $5000 grant from the Alameda County Fish and Game Commission
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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 9/8/23
Native Plant Stewardship This blog took a break during the late summer weeks, but care and feeding of the Native
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Park Week 6/23/23
Water & Weed Natives on Sunday With all the dry and often sunny weather we’ve been having, it’s time to
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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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Real and Fake
The first set of images here is real, created by humans with cameras. The bottom two are fakes created by
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Brave Squirrel
Park Visitor Victoria Párraga whipped out her cell phone and caught video of a Ground Squirrel attacking the tail of
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Two Heavyweights
In the northwest corner of the park, below the hill with the Peace Symbol, a heavyweight of the air and
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Banded Hunter
Photographer David Hauer saw this big Red-tailed Hawk with a wriggling juvenile Gopher Snake in its beak. Looking at the
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Baby Snake
Two park visitors were standing across the paved trail on the north side looking at the ground. “Are you OK?”
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Baby Gopher Snake
Another park visitor pointed this one out to me. I was tired from walking around the park and probably would
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Snake Skin
Park visitor Parissa Salimian, whose springtime photos of a Great Egret appeared here just a few days ago, spotted this
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Young Snake
This young gopher snake was living dangerously. It crossed the paved perimeter path on the northwest side of the park
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Gopher Snake
Two Parks groundskeepers in their truck saw it before I did. They would have run it over if they hadn’t
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Gopher Snake on Kite Lawn
A family picnicking on the Kite Lawn next to the parking circle alerted me to this gopher snake. This individual,
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Gopher Snake on the North Side
This gopher snake was ambling — if that’s a word you can use for a legless creature — on the
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