Posts Tagged ‘feeding’
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.
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Monday, November 16th, 2009
San Francisco’s hungry raccoons are delighting the online world the world over, entertaining millions with their poses of masked banditry. And why not – aren’t they cute?
Here’s another view from the camera of shutterbug Stephen Thompson. It was 2:00 AM at the Legion of Honor museum:
And here’s the full story. Dude jogs around town in the midnight hour carrying his point-and-shoot camera in a sock. Bravo.
But these photos were taken in 2006. They hung around as 1’s and 0’s until Stephen posted them to Flickr a few months back. Then, they were noticed by the Fantastic Mr. Fox – Andrew Fox, Webmaster at the Fine Arts Museums of San Francisco (FAMSF). He made a post to the FAMSF Facebook and then the rest is history.
Are these gorgeous but fiesty raccoons now the cutest animals in San Francisco?
Maybe.
But remember, we’ll always have Parrots.
The Wild Parrots of Telegraph Hill that is:
Click to expand, it gets big. From 2005, above Telegraph Hill. Remember this day? The parrots wore green, you wore blue.
Thanks for posting your photos, Stephen Thompson.
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Monday, November 2nd, 2009
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Tuesday, June 9th, 2009
Just as you could see Mark Bittner feeding wild parrots in the movie Wild Parrots of Telegraph Hill, you can see people going out of their way to feed wild pigeons on Masonic Avenue. They’re just like the feral cat feeders of Golden Gate Park.
Time for the daily sidewalk feeding:
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Maybe that’s why we have so many pigeons around town.
Tags: Animals, ave, avenue, birds, bittner, blossom, cherry, Cherry-headed, collector's edition, conure, feeding, green, hill, mark, mating, parakeet, parrot, parrots, pigeons, red, red masked, San Francisco, sidewalk, telegraph, tree, wild, wild parrots
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Wednesday, February 25th, 2009
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, cherry, Cherry-headed, conure, Conures, feeding, financial district, flock, flowering, green, hill, mark, mating, parakeet, park, parrot, plum, red, red masked, San Francisco, supervisors, telegraph, tree, waterfront, wild, wild parrots
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Saturday, December 13th, 2008
It used to be that the Wild Parrots of San Francisco kept mostly to the area around Telegraph Hill (as you can see here on the two-DVD Collector’s Edition of the famous movie, just released).
But nowadays, they roam farther afield, giving you more chances to see (and hear) these happy looking birds. Keep looking up to the sky or down in the trees eating plum flowers - you’ll spot them eventually)
Above S.F. Click to expand:
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Thursday, June 19th, 2008
When they’re not eating flowers, the Wild Parrots of Telegraph Hill like to fly around San Francisco in big flocks.
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Wild parrots above the KPIX-TV building on Battery Street and also near 202 Green Street, where Philo T. Farnsworth invented television a while back.
Some people are afraid of these red masked conures, but others would like them to become the state bird of California instead of the Valley Quail. We have some quail in San Francisco as well, but not all that many.
Will the Parrot cell phone-accessory company be able to change our state bird from quail to parrot?
Only Time Will Tell.
Tags: 2008, accessories, Animals, Arinae, bittner, blossom, board, car kit, cell phone, cellular, cherry, Cherry-headed, conure, Conures, driving, feeding, financial district, flock, flowering, green, hands freee, hill, irving, judy, July 1, law, mark, mating, parakeet, park, parrot, phone, plum, red, red masked, San Francisco, supervisors, telegraph, tree, Valley, waterfront, wild, wild parrots
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Thursday, May 29th, 2008
San Francisco’s famous wild parrots have spread out a bit lately, so they’re easier to spot these days.
Watch them eating springtime blossoms (cherry? plum?). You can listen to them also. And of course, you can read all about them.
Click to expand. (With your help, we can fight moiré):
Mmmmm…, flowers.
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