Park Week 7/14/23
Heron’s Breakfast Hidden in the shadows on the north side of the Open Circle Viewpoint, this big heron reached out
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Mammals
Park Week 7/7/23
Snowy With a Bad Leg This Snowy Egret used its wings more than it normally would because its right leg
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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 6/16/23
Summer Solstice Wednesday Next Wednesday is the saddest day in the Northern Hemisphere’s solar calendar. The Summer Solstice marks the
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Park Week 6/9/23
Killing Grassland Birds Bird populations are in trouble worldwide, research shows, and the hardest hit are the grassland birds. We’re
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Park Week 6/2/23
TLC for Native Plant Babies The native plant babies that Conservancy volunteers put in the ground last November got a
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Park Week 5/26/23
Weed and Water the Plant Babies Sunday Morning The baby native plants that Conservancy volunteers put in the ground last
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Park Week 5/5/23
Painting Birds Alive A story in the Washington Post last week features Rex Brasher, “the greatest bird artist you’ve never
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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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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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Furry Friends
The Burrowing Owl in the park was back in Perch A this morning. Yesterday morning my video camera caught the
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Close Cropper
(Burrowing Owl Update Below) A landscape manager in charge of a golf course might consider putting a family of California
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Egret Shift Change
(Burrowing Owl Update Below) Snowy Egrets, often quite common, have been kind of rare around the park in the past
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Otter of the Year
(Burrowing Owl Update Below) I had to run to catch up with this one. It was swimming north close in
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Up for Air
It was an almost birdless morning. A few crows, a gull or two, one Snowy Egret, one probable cormorant in
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Hello or Hiccup?
Conflict between brain and gut is a familiar scenario for humans. It also plays a role in human analysis of
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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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Doe Next Door
The sharp eye and fast shutter-finger of photographer Phil Rowntree captured this doe jumping a fence in the Sylvia McLaughlin
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Eat Your Salad
The Ground Squirrel’s Latin name — “spermophilus” — says it’s a seed lover. That’s accurate as far as it goes.
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Saturday Park Care
A hard-working crew of volunteers turned out on Saturday morning May 28 to care for the Native Plant Area on
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Heron, Gopher, Dog
As a photographer, I was lucky. The Great Blue Heron stalked slowly westward on the meadow in the southeast corner
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Looking Back (5)
These concluding selections from photographer Emilie Keas’ treasury of park photos show some of the most familiar birds and small
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