Park News 9/13/2024
Equinox celebration Sunday Sep. 22 Vivian White, astronomy whisperer and spirit guide of solar celebrations at Chavez Park, has issued
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Ground Squirrel
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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Park Week 6/21/24
Singing in the Chill Mark Twain’s wisecrack about never seeing a winter so cold as summer in San Francisco came
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Park Week 6/7/2024
Work Day Sunday Chavez Park Conservancy volunteers usually do stewardship work in the Native Plant Area on Saturdays. But this
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Park Week 5/24/2024
Trifecta First I saw the big one, the Great Blue Heron. It stalked around in a relaxed way on the
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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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Park Week 4/12/2024
Conservancy Wins UC Grant “On behalf of Chancellor Carol Christ and the Advisory Board of the UC Berkeley Chancellor’s Community
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Park Week 3/22/2024
Equinox Gathering at Solar Calendar Alan Gould (left), retired director of the Lawrence Hall of Science Planetarium, among other astronomical
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Park Week 3/8/2024
Native Plant Work Day Tomorrow Calling all volunteers for tomorrow morning, Saturday March 9, for stewardship work in the Native
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Park Week 1/26/2024
The main park event of the week was the hearing at the Air District offices in San Francisco concerning the
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Park Week 12/29/23
Rushing Romance This pair of Clark’s Grebes (Aechmophorus clarkii) provided the highlight of the week’s bird events Tuesday morning by
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Park Week 12/8/2023
Owl Cameo The Burrowing Owl that visited the park in dense fog on Monday morning didn’t stay. I returned to
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Park Week 10/13/23
Sparrows in Saltwater I’ve seen sparrows bathing in rain puddles, see “Puddle Joy” Mar 5 2022. I’ve never seen one
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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 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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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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