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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Plants
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 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 6/30/23
Birds Hanging In Three birds are showing great love for the park, or something, by remaining longer than usual. The
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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 5/19/23
Birds: Female Cameo At least one female showed up in the Red-winged Blackbird breeding area on Sunday May 14. She
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Park Week 5/12/23
Shorebirds Together Standing in the Open Circle Viewpoint looking north, I spotted a young Black-crowned Night-Heron perched in the shallows
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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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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 4/7/23
Kudos to Kamen for April 1 Post The test of a good April Fool’s joke is that people think it’s
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Owl’s Last Day?
Last year, the owl that perched on the rocks on the eastern slope of the Burrowing Owl Sanctuary departed for
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Avoid this Plant
(Burrowing Owl Update Below) Along the east side path, near the water about even with the first of the Barn
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Storm Tracks
(Burrowing Owl Update Below) The recent series of storms has left some tracks in Chavez Park, some made by wind,
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Stripped Clean
Reminder: Solstice Celebration at Chavez/Huerta Solar Calendar tomorrow, Wednesday Dec. 21, at 4 pm. Details. (Burrowing Owl Update Below) No
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Lickin’ Berry
(Burrowing Owl Update Below) The Native Plant Area in the park features not only the Toyon but also another native
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Trees and Owl
Planting Native Trees On Monday the Native Pollinator Project moved into the heavy lifting stage with the planting of native
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What Did We Plant?
(Burrowing Owl Update Below) The most common question that park visitors asked us as we were working on establishing the
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Crow Berries
Burrowing Owl Update Below The Toyon’s berries (“pomes”) draw several kinds of birds in different ways. The House Finch, as
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Signs of the Season
A standard exercise in early schooling, from K to 6, is to have the kids find “signs of the season.”
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