Posts Tagged ‘heron’
Friday, June 8th, 2012
Via David Cruz:
“A common species on earth however rare for Golden Gate Park, San Francisco.
Joseph Mailliard listed it as a rarity during the summers at Golden Gate Park in his book “The Birds of Golden Gate Park” published in 1930. At the time it was referred to as an “Anthony Green Heron” p.24.”

Here’s a shot from the former Strybing Arboretum eight years ago, when there were a few about.
(That was from before paywall went up at Strybing Arboretum. The Board of Supervisors said that they would revisit the issue of charging for admission at the “San Francisco Botanical Garden” if things didn’t work out and, actually, things didn’t work out, but I don’t think anybody’s going to seriously reconsider the pay gates.* Oh well. So, I’m never going back there. Oh well.)
*Uh RPD, do you want ideas about what to do instead of blindly following whatever the Botanical Society tells you to do? Oh, not really? OK. Uh, RPD, don’t you know that everybody knows that you were lying about the projected attendance figures in the post-paywall era? You do? Good. But the attendance figures are much lower than what you were actually expecting, right? And what you were actually expecting was a lot lower than what you said you were expecting, right? And you’re cool with that, and you had no other options at all, RPD, so this is the greatest thing ever, right? OK fine.
Tags: 1994, 2012, Anthony, arboretum, bay area, Botanical Society, Butorides virescens, california, david cruz, golden gate park, Green Heron, Green Herons, heron, rpd, San Francisco, strybing, Strybing Arboretum
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Wednesday, August 17th, 2011
This giant bird with a wingspan bigger than your outstretched arms has managed to stay well-fed on tiny crawdads in Golden Gate Park.
See? Nom nom nom:

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Hurray!
Tags: 1d, 2.8, 2011, 300mm, bay area, bird, california, canon, crawdad, Crayfish, great blue heron, heron, hunting, San Francisco, Stow lake
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Friday, June 3rd, 2011
[Here's how rooted in the 80's I am - this simple ditty gives me chills within the first second of play. (Sinead O'Connor proved that you don't need hair to look good when you have excellent, excellent genes.)]
Or Heron Street, some people call it that…

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Or some people might read it as “END Heroin.”
Your pick…
Tags: 361, alley, area, end, heroine, heron, heron street, market, sign, Sinead O'Connor, soma, south, street, tenth
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Wednesday, March 16th, 2011
See?
As seen in the pool below Prayerbook Cross in Golden Gate Park, which is the summit of our annual Bay to Breakers race – no not the Hayes Street Hill, despite what they tell you, year after year.

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Tags: 2011, bay area, bird, california, crane, crawdad, crawfish, Crayfish, great blue, Hayes street hill, heron, San Francisco, sumnmit bay to breakers
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Monday, March 14th, 2011
This is the before photo.
It was quite striking, in the serious moonlight:

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Some would like to cite the owner of this pimped ride (you know, because of the “blight.”)
Would you approve of that?
Tags: 2011, bay area, bird, california, citation, crane, fish, graffiti, heron, illegal, mural, piant, San Francisco, spray, tag, tagged, tagging, ticket, truck, western addition
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Monday, March 7th, 2011
First it was all like this:

But then it was all like this:

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See what I mean? Pwned!
How wude, huh?
Tags: 2011, arboretum, bay area, bird, botanical, california, ear, exotic, Garden, golden gate park, great blue heron, heron, owned, pond, pwnage, pwned, red, Red-Eared, San Francisco, San Francisco Botanical Garden, Slider, species, strybing, turtle, waterfowl, wildfowl
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Thursday, October 14th, 2010
You can spot Nycticorax nycticorax (literally “night raven,” but we call them Black Crowned Night Herons there days) in Golden Gate Park if you pay attention.
They hide out in the bushes until dusk and then they start hunting, mostly for fish.
Spot one of them and you’ll have good luck until dusk the next day.

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Tags: 2010, bay area, bird, black, black crowned, california, crown, golden gate park, good luck, heron, lake, night, night raven, Nycticorax night heron, raven, San Francisco, stow
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Tuesday, May 5th, 2009
The Great Blue Herons of Golden Gate Park like to wake up and get their stretching in as soon as they can.
What a funky chicken. Click to expand:

Don’t miss your chance to see these critters this season via San Francisco Nature Education, the non-profit founded by attorney Nancy DeStefanis. They have some programs, like Heron Watch and Birding for Everyone. Check their calendar or this one on SFGate.com.
Tags: 2009, Ardea herodias, birding, Birding for Everyone, birds, cold, contrology, golden gate park, great blue heron, heron, Heron Watch, heronwatch, island, lake, Nancy DeStefanis, org, pilates, San Francisco, San Francisco nature Education, sfnature, stow, stretch, stretching, warm
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Friday, May 1st, 2009
The Great Blue Herons of Golden Gate Park sometimes like to get up high and ball up. I guess they do that to warm up in the sun after a cold night.
Don’t miss your chance to see these critters this season via San Francisco Nature Education, the non-profit founded by attorney Nancy DeStefanis. They’ll have some programs, like Heron Watch and Birding for Everyone going on tomorrow, May 2, 2009, and on into the future. Check their calendar or thisone on SFGate.com.

Can you see the beak? Click to expand
Tags: 2009, Ardea herodias, ball, birding, Birding for Everyone, birds, cold, golden gate park, great blue heron, heron, Heron Watch, heronwatch, island, lake, lollipop, Nancy DeStefanis, org, San Francisco, San Francisco nature Education, sfnature, stow, Stow lake, warm
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Wednesday, March 4th, 2009
The Great Blue Herons of Golden Gate Park need to mash up their crayfish treats before eating, so sometimes you’ll get to hear a wet splat and then see the guts fly.
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KERSPLATT!
A close up view from an earlier day:

Look out, little crayfish…
Tags: california, crawdads, crawfish, Crayfish, crustacean, freshwater, golden gate park, great blue heron, heron, mudbug, San Francisco, small lobsters, Stow lake, yabbies, yabby
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