Rick Lewis’ Chavez Park
Wildlife photographer Rick Lewis’ work has graced the cover of magazines. His images excel in sharpness and clarity. He has
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Empty Talons
This young Cooper’s Hawk hadn’t read his hunting manual. I first saw him perched on a rock at the water’s
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Busy Morning
Some days when I visit the park, I don’t get anything worth posting as a blog item. Other days I
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Young Hawk
Why bother flying around to find prey when you can sit on a pole and wait? That seems to be
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Hawk on Wall
This young Cooper’s Hawk perched on the wall of the Spiral, the Open Circle seating area built as part of
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Owl Defies Hawk
The Burrowing Owl that has made the nature area on the north side of the park its seasonal home defied
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Bird-eating Hawk
Photographer Phil Rowntree captured these images of a juvenile Cooper’s Hawk on a pole by the Virginia Street extension (left)
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A Summer Hawk
The hawks and other big raptors normally show up in numbers come fall and winter. By way of exception, this
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Hawk’s Dinner
Photographer Phil Rowntree and his son Fionn were walking in the Berkeley Meadow, almost next door to Cesar Chavez Park,
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His Highness the Hawk
Photographer Phil Rowntree captured this magnificent bird in a regal pose, with its royal robe flared and its gaze stern,
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A Raptor Gallery by John Davis
John Davis walks the park with a lens as long as his arm. He also has an exceptional set of
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Cooper’s Hawk on Pole
Resting on top of a pole on the side of the Virginia Street Extension, at the border of the Berkeley
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Not a Burrowing Owl
I was walking by the southern part of the fenced Burrowing Owl area when I saw a bird about the
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A Thanksgiving Bird: Cooper’s Hawk
On Thanksgiving day, I walked right under this bird and didn’t see it until some folks on a side path
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