Park Week 5/26
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 5/19
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
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
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 4/28
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 4/21
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
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
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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Park Week 3/31
Favorite Birds of the Week I’ll go out in the rain when there’s a Burrowing Owl in residence, but otherwise
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Park Week 3/24
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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Spring Break
To all the loyal readers who follow this daily blog: I’m going to take a two-week Spring Break starting today.
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Guest Gallery: Dylan Law
Park visitor Dylan Law is one of the photographers who showed up to take pictures of the Burrowing Owl when
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Guest Gallery: Sara Sato
Among the wonderful park visitors who stopped to look at the Burrowing Owl in Perch B while it was here
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Black History: View from Below
(Burrowing Owl Update Below) Yesterday I featured architect, author, and environmental justice leader Carl Anthony. In his position as head
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Black History: Environmental Equity
(Burrowing Owl Update Below) Carl Anthony is a Berkeley resident and a member of the Board of Directors of the
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North Side
(Burrowing Owl Update Below) American Wigeons aren’t exactly rare in the waters around the park, but it’s quite unusual, in
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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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Growing Up
(Burrowing Owl Update Below) These two young White-crowned Sparrows probably hatched next to one another within a few hours, but
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Biggest Bird
On my way to see the Burrowing Owl, I ran into a string of Berkeley Fire vehicles. The Berkeley Fire
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Grebes Big and Small
(Burrowing Owl Update Below) On my way back from observing the Burrowing Owl I could not miss this big grebe
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