North Basin: The Video
<span data-mce-type=”bookmark” style=”display: inline-block; width: 0px; overflow: hidden; line-height: 0;” class=”mce_SELRES_start”></span> The North Basin is the body of water between
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American Coot
Coots Escape to Shore
This morning following a day of rain I saw something I had not seen before: Coots on land, eating the
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A Coot’s Clever Foot
Like Victorian ladies, the American Coots around Cesar Chavez Park never show their legs. Or almost never. This morning, with
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The Wigeons Are Back
Mixed in with a raft of Coots near the south edge of the North Basin this morning, dozens of American
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The Usual Feathered Suspects
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, Fish, and Planes
This Western Gull caught or stole a flat little fish, but had a problem getting it into its gullet. As
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Coot Count Takes Off
American Coots — the plump black duck-like birds with bright white beaks — have been arriving in the North Basin
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Consolation for No Owls
As a new graduate of the Burrowing Owl Docent Training Program, I knew that these unique birds are crepuscular (most
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Solo Scaup Still Here
The male Scaup who did not join the migration north in April is still here, seen cruising busily in the
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A Bachelor Scaup
At first acquaintance, migratory birds seem to move in a solid mass, all for one and one for all. Closer
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