You’ll soon be able to see a scene like this in Golden Gate Park when you look across Stow Lake up towards Heron Island.
Get on down to the Stow Lake Boathouse area on Saturdays starting April 13th to get involved with Heron Watch. It’s brought to us by Nancy DeStefanis, director of San Francisco Nature Education, every year.
The view from Strawberry Hill – Dad watches the kids while Mom’s out hunting gophers and whatnot:
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See you there!
You’ll soon be able to see a scene like this in Golden Gate Park when you look across Stow Lake up towards Heron Island.
Get on down to the Stow Lake Boathouse area on Saturdays starting April 9th to get involved with Heron Watch. It’s brought to us by Nancy DeStefanis, director of San Francisco Nature Education, every year.
I mean, these herons aren’t going to watch themselves…
The view from Strawberry Hill almost exactly five years ago – Dad watches the kids sitting in a hundred-pound nest the while Mom’s out hunting gophers and whatnot:
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See you there!
Look to the Skies for Signs and Wonders…
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.
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
Just as the Cliff Swallows come back to Capistrano every March (or so they say), the Great Blue Herons of San Francisco return to nest on a small island on Stow Lake every January.
See what it looks like via filmmaker Rick Bacigalupi of BaciPix, who presents Nancy DeStefanis, The Heron Lady. Check out SFNature.org for the latest, including new tours of Heron’s Head Park (aka Pier 98) in southeast San Francisco.
This fellow is a regular at the nests in the tops of of the Monterey Cypress of Stow Lake. He’s ready to fight and love all over again this year.
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