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Mushrooms must be among the fastest-growing organisms. Take soil. Add rain. Poof! Mushrooms appear overnight. Or seem to. Wikipedia cautions

Two weeks ago I filmed a Common Goldeneye female and noted that there was no male around, “but the season

This advance party of male Red-winged Blackbirds arrived and announced its presence on Sunday. Their calls are unmistakable. I saw

The Burrowing Owl that has made the nature area on the north side of the park its seasonal home was

This Great Blue Heron is almost becoming a park fixture. It shows itself daily in various park areas, mostly in

It certainly isn’t Spring by the calendar, but these Narcissus (a.k.a. daffodil, jonquil) bloom to a different drummer. They’ve been

As if loose dogs and hawks weren’t enough, the Burrowing Owl in the nature area on the north side of

Ondine Norman of Berkeley (left) and Tres Jimenez of Oakland stopped me as I was scanning for owls in the

This Great Blue Heron looked like it was posing for a postcard. It held still, as they do, for minutes,

Jutta Burger and Bob Huttar, the eyes and brains behind the Flora Friday column here, are back in the park