Calm Sparrow
If a bird perches this close to the paved walkway, when I set up to make a video, it flies
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Mallards Go Dark
At the southeast corner of the North Basin (the water between the park and the freeway) sits the culvert that
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Black Birders Week
From BirdWatchingDaily.com: Just four days after the encounter between a white dog walker and African American birdwatcher Christian Cooper, a group
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Green Parakeet
Park visitor Karen Storey was walking on the path in the northwest corner of the park yesterday evening and saw
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Blooms of May
Eight of these blooms observed during the month of May are new additions to the inventory of plants in the
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Mallards in Mud
Like the proverbial pigs, these Mallards looked at home and happy rooting in the mud at low tide on the
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Cowbirds? In Berkeley?
Looking at this from below, I thought at first this was a Brewer’s Blackbird. When I got the images home
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What Is This Bird?
This bird showed up on May 21 in the fennel forest on the north side where the Red-winged Blackbirds and
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Grebe Dating
More than 75 big grebes gathered in the North Basin for several days, most of them the Clark’s variety. A
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Solo Scoter Female
This bird had been floating asleep almost every day for a week up near the Open Circle Viewpoint, and I
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