Larus occidentalis

* Birds Western Gull 

Gulls Gabbing

June 13, 2020June 5, 2020 Marty Nicolaus Larus occidentalis

This gull, and then three more, were cawing up a storm just off the eastern shore of the park. I

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* Birds Brown Pelican Pelagic Cormorant Western Gull 

Bird Frenzy

January 7, 2020January 6, 2020 Marty Nicolaus 0 Comments Larus occidentalis, Pelecanus occidentalis, Phalacrocorax pelagicus

Pelicans, cormorants, and gulls combined in a mad feeding frenzy this morning, tracking a school of fish that erred into

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* American Coot Birds Ground Squirrel Mammals Rock Pigeon Western Gull 

Consolation for No Owls

October 23, 2019October 22, 2019 Marty Nicolaus 0 Comments Columba livia, Fulica americana, Larus occidentalis, Otospermophilus beecheyi

I’ve been searching for Burrowing Owls in their usual haunts almost daily — sometimes twice daily — since the beginning

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* Not BUOW Western Gull 

Portrait of a Gull

February 3, 2019January 23, 2019 Mosey2014 Larus occidentalis

I’ve noticed it before. Sometimes a bird wants its portrait done. It will sit still, unafraid. It will turn this

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* American Avocet American Coot American Crow American White Pelican American Wigeon Belted Kingfisher Birds Black Oystercatcher Black Phoebe Black Turnstone Black-bellied Plover Black-crowned Night Heron Black-necked Stilt Brown Pelican Bufflehead Burrowing Owl Canada Goose Clark's Grebe Common Goldeneye Common Loon Double-crested Cormorant Eared Grebe Eurasian Wigeon Featured Video Forster's Tern Great Blue Heron Great Egret Greater Scaup Greater Yellowlegs Horned Grebe Least Sandpiper Long-billed Curlew Mallard Marbled Godwit Mew Gull Northern Pintail Red-throated Loon Ring-billed Gull Ruddy Duck Snowy Egret Spotted Sandpiper Surf Scoter Turkey Vulture Western Grebe Western Gull Whimbrel White-tailed Kite Willet 

North Basin: The Video

February 12, 2018May 20, 2020 Mosey2014 2 Comments Actitis macularius, Aechmophorus clarkii, Aechmophorus occidentalis, Anas acuta, Anas platyrhynchos, Ardea alba, Ardea herodias, Arenaria melanocephala, Athene cunicularia, Aythya marila, Branta canadensis, Bucephala albeola, Bucephala clangula, Calidris minutilla, Cathartes aura, Corvus brachyrhynchos, Egretta thula, Elanus leucurus, Fulica americana, Gavia immer, Gavia stellata, Haematopus bachmani, Himantopus mexicanus, Larus canus, Larus delawarensis, Larus occidentalis, Limosa fedoa, Mareca americana, Mareca penelope, Megaceryle alcyon, Melanitta perspicillata, Numenius americanus, Numenius phaeopus, Nycticorax nycticorax, Oxyura jamaicensis, Pelecanus erythrorhynchos, Pelecanus occidentalis, Phalacrocorax auritus, Pluvialis squatarola, Podiceps auritus, Podiceps nigricollis, Recurvirostra americana, Sayornis nigricans, Sterna forsteri, Tringa melanoleuca, Tringa semipalmata

The North Basin is the body of water between Cesar Chavez Park and the Berkeley mainland.  When I first started

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* American Coot Black Oystercatcher Brown Pelican Bufflehead Great Blue Heron Mallard Western Gull White-Crowned Sparrow Willet 

The Usual Feathered Suspects

November 12, 2017January 21, 2019 Mosey2014 0 Comments Anas platyrhynchos, Ardea herodias, Bucephala albeola, Fulica americana, Haematopus bachmani, Larus occidentalis, Pelecanus occidentalis, Tringa semipalmata, Zonotrichia leucophrys

The big news in the park this past week was the rain.  Soon those brown hills will be green.  In

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Birds Brown Pelican Pelagic Cormorant Western Gull 

Gull Gore (R)

November 6, 2017February 12, 2019 Mosey2014 1 Comment Larus occidentalis, Pelecanus occidentalis, Phalacrocorax pelagicus

This post is rated R for images that some people may find disturbing. There was a cluster of gulls near

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* American Coot American Crow Birds Fish Fishers Pelagic Cormorant People Western Gull 

Birds, Fish, and Planes

October 29, 2017February 14, 2019 Mosey2014 0 Comments Corvus brachyrhynchos, Fulica americana, Larus occidentalis, Phalacrocorax pelagicus

This Western Gull caught or stole a flat little fish, but had a problem getting it into its gullet.  As

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* American Coot Birds Brown Pelican Burrowing Owl Double-crested Cormorant Extreme Tides Greater Scaup Maintenance Western Gull Willet 

Consolation for No Owls

October 2, 2017February 12, 2019 Mosey2014 0 Comments Athene cunicularia, Aythya marila, Fulica americana, Larus occidentalis, Pelecanus occidentalis, Phalacrocorax auritus, Tringa semipalmata

As a new graduate of the Burrowing Owl Docent Training Program, I knew that these unique birds are crepuscular (most

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* American Coot Birds Brown Pelican Extreme Tides Greater Scaup Mallard Marbled Godwit Ring-billed Gull Snowy Egret Western Gull 

Not Snowbirds, These

June 11, 2017January 21, 2019 Mosey2014 0 Comments Anas platyrhynchos, Aythya marila, Egretta thula, Fulica americana, Larus delawarensis, Larus occidentalis, Limosa fedoa, Pelecanus occidentalis

It was a minus 0.55 tide early Saturday morning, low enough to expose yards of mud all along the parkside

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