Posts Tagged ‘feeding’
Thursday, September 13th, 2012
Back in the day down there betwixt San Francisco’s Financial District and the Golden Gateway Apartments, tourists would come along and just hold their hands out, with astonishing results.
Wild parrots looking for a handout – via Gwen in a great capture from 2007, before The Law:
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Ah mem’ries;
First it was all like this (Yes, this is the view you’ll get of the 415′s famous wild parrots from our Filbert Steps.)
The Wild Parrots of Telegraph Hill
But now it’s all like this. (Gee, should I get a Chinese character inked on my Europid skin and be a laughingstock for the rest of my life or should I get something cool like this instead? Mmmm, decisions, decisions…)
Wow! That’s a good one, Deanna Wardin of Tattoo Boogaloo.
That’s the best tattoo I’ve seen in the 415.
The Wild Parrots of Telegraph Hill were made famous a few years back by the movie with the same name. Get the new Special Two-Disc Collector’s Edition today, why don’t you?
A friendly pair in the Presidio. Click to expand:
They love to fly…
and eat flowers.
Look to the Skies for Signs and Wonders…
Tags: Animals, Arinae, bittner, blossom, board, boogaloo, boogaloo tattoo, cherry, Cherry-headed, conure, Conures, deanna waedin, fedding, feed, feeding, financial district, flock, flowering, flying, green, hill, illegal, law, legal, mark, mating, north beach, parakeet, park, parrot, plum, red, red masked, San Francisco, scared, supervisors, tattoo, tattoo boogaloo, telegraph, tree, waterfront, wild, wild parrots, wOMAN
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Monday, September 10th, 2012
This took a while so I’m not sure these photos show the same crawfish. The baby would keep dropping it and the mother would keep diving to retrieve.
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I guess it all worked out…
Tags: 2012, baby, bay area, big, bird, california, crawdad, crawdaddies, crawfish, Crayfish, feed, feeding, golden gate park, grebe, lobster, mother, pie bill, pie billed, red, San Francisco, Stow lake
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Friday, July 27th, 2012
Pigeon Man, he’s there every day:
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Where does he get his supply of pigeon feed?
No one knows.
Tags: 2012, agfainst, bay area, birds, california, City Hall, civic center, feed, feeding, flying, grove, illegal, larkin, law, legal, mcallister, pigeon, pigeon man, pigeons, Polk, rats, San Francisco, street, tenderloin, twitterloin
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Monday, July 23rd, 2012
The pigeons of Civic Center know Pigeon Man is coming – they walk with him down Larkin:
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See? They use the crosswalk better than the average San Francisco pedestrian:
Now, here’s your payoff, some kind of grain, like what the Road Runner used to peck at:
Hurray!
Tags: 2012, agfainst, bay area, birds, california, City Hall, civic center, feed, feeding, flying, grove, illegal, larkin, law, legal, mcallister, pigeon, pigeon man, pigeons, Polk, rats, San Francisco, street, tenderloin, twitterloin
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Tuesday, February 28th, 2012
People actually go out and feed pigeons in San Francisco.
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I don’t know why.
Tags: '08. 2012, bay area, birds, bush, california, dove, doves, feed, feeding, food, Kearny, mailbox, night, pigeons, rock, San Francisco, street, union square
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Tuesday, December 20th, 2011
Believe it or not, this is a color photograph of the Wild Parrots of Telegraph Hill.
A view from the Financial from a few days back:
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But leave us remember more colorful San Francisco scenes…
First it was all like this (Yes, this is the view you’ll get of the 415′s famous wild parrots from our Filbert Steps.)
The Wild Parrots of Telegraph Hill – Click to expand
But now it’s all like this. (Gee, should I get a Chinese character inked on my Europid skin and be a laughingstock for the rest of my life or should I get something cool like this instead? Mmmm, decisions, decisions…)
Wow! That’s a good one, Deanna Wardin of Tattoo Boogaloo.
[UPDATE: OMG, OMG, it's their One Year Anniversary on July 30th, 2011 - Joyeux anniversaire, Tattoo du Boogaloo! All the deets.]
That’s the best tattoo I’ve seen in the 415.
Ever more deets, after the jump
(more…)
Tags: Animals, Arinae, bittner, blossom, board, boogaloo, boogaloo tattoo, cherry, Cherry-headed, conure, Conures, deanna waedin, feeding, financial district, flock, flowering, flying, green, hill, mark, mating, north beach, parakeet, park, parrot, plum, red, red masked, San Francisco, supervisors, tattoo, tattoo boogaloo, telegraph, tree, waterfront, wild, wild parrots
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Friday, November 4th, 2011
Tags: 18, 2006, 2009, 2011, 46th, avenue, bait, bandits, bay area, california, cereal, coon, drivers, famsf, feeding, fishing, food, halloween, legion, legion of honor, Lincoln Park, mta, Muni, museum, night, photo, raccoon, raccoon fishing, raccoons, San Francisco, SF, SFMTA, stonesmerced, teddy grahams, treasure island
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Friday, July 15th, 2011
[UPDATE: OMG, OMG, it's their One Year Anniversary on July 30th, 2011 - Joyeux anniversaire, Tattoo du Boogaloo! All the deets.]
First it was all like this (Yes, this is the view you’ll get of the 415′s famous wild parrots from our Filbert Steps.)
The Wild Parrots of Telegraph Hill – Click to expand
But now it’s all like this. (Gee, should I get a Chinese character inked on my Europid skin and be a laughingstock for the rest of my life or should I get something cool like this instead? Mmmm, decisions, decisions…)
Wow! That’s a good one, Deanna Wardin of Tattoo Boogaloo.
That’s the best tattoo I’ve seen in the 415.
The Wild Parrots of Telegraph Hill were made famous a few years back by the movie with the same name. Get the new Special Two-Disc Collector’s Edition today, why don’t you?
A friendly pair in the Presidio. Click to expand:
They love to fly…
and eat flowers.
Look to the skies…
Tags: Animals, Arinae, bittner, blossom, board, boogaloo, boogaloo tattoo, cherry, Cherry-headed, conure, Conures, deanna waedin, feeding, financial district, flock, flowering, flying, green, hill, mark, mating, north beach, parakeet, park, parrot, plum, red, red masked, San Francisco, supervisors, tattoo, tattoo boogaloo, telegraph, tree, waterfront, wild, wild parrots
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Monday, April 4th, 2011
Could be.
These South American parrots should feel right at home in a south-of-the-Equator tree, non?
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Will their chicks soon join the flock in Telegraph Hill?
Or maybe they’ll just end up hanging out in Sue Bierman Park eating flowers:
It will be one or the other, probably…
Tags: Animals, Arinae, bittner, blossom, cherry, Cherry-headed, collector's edition, conure, Conures, dvd, feeding, flock, flowering, green, hill, irving, judy, mark, mating, parakeet, parrot, parrots, red, red masked, San Francisco, telegraph, tree, waterfront, wild, wild parrots
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Wednesday, January 27th, 2010
I always thought that it might be against the rules to feed animals in Golden Gate Park, but I never really knew for sure. These days, there’s a movement afoot to amend the San Francisco Park Code to prohibit feeding animals “wild by nature and not customarily domesticated.”
Here’s the rule as it stands now:
“SEC. 5.07. FEEDING ANIMALS PROHIBITED It shall be unlawful for any person to feed or offer to any animal in any park any substance which would be likely to be harmful to it. (Added by 603-81, App. 12/18/81)”
Does it hurt a duck to feed it bread? No se. Is it against the rules to feed a duck in Golden Gate Park under the existing rules? Even our Lawgivers seem to be uncertain as to how this would all work.
The operator of the Stow Lake Boat House has this sign up at the snack bar, not that the birders would approve.
Here’s a sign at San Francisco Botanical Garden (nee Strybing) inside of GGP. The people at Strybing, they say stuff like “we don’t feed the animals” but I don’t think they have any special rules just for them because their signs only cite existing section 5.07:
Irregardless, lots of people think its their right to feed San Francisco’s ducks, so I’m not sure that Park Rangers would relish handing out enough citations to get people to change their behavior.
It’s probably not a good thing for you to feed the ducks but I don’t think anybody will try to stop you if you put your mind to it. (Although if you’re around state or federal authorities, they might have a whole set of different rules for you to obey.)
Of course Park employees used to carry around cans of cat food to feed the red foxes of Strybing, but they’re no longer around.
And coyotes, some guy started bringing raw meet into GGP to feed coyotes a while back, but that caused issues so the state of California sent in a man to execute all the coyotes he could find, including this one.
Oh well.
Our supes will hash this issue out and let us know I’m sure.
Tags: 5.07, amend, Animals, arboretum, baothous, birds, botanical garden, bread, code, coyotes, ducks, elsbernd, feed, feeding, foxes, geese, golden gate park, goose, illegal, lake, law, ordinance, ordnance, parrots, popcorn, rangers, San Francisco, stow, strybing, Supervisor
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