Posts Tagged ‘wild’
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, March 9th, 2011
They’re everywhere up there
Via Bluoz:
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When will they cross the bridge to San Francisco?
Tags: 2011, bay area, california, county, marin, San Francisco, turkety, turkey, turkeys, wild
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Wednesday, October 27th, 2010
Word comes today from Bluoz about the dangers of wild mushrooms in the Bay Area.
“This poster was made just three weeks ago by a Woodside, California resident who’s dog died recently from eating poisonous mushrooms on their front lawn: http://www.boxerworld.com/forums/dog-health-issues-questions/153219-mushroom-warning.html
The URL in the poster refers to the North American Mycological Society which produces their own warning posters: http://www.namyco.org/toxicology/index.html“
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Let’s be careful out there.
Tags: 2010, bay area, california, children, county, death cap, death caps, deathcap, deaths, destroy, dog, donato, eat, head, mushroom, poison, poisonous, San Francisco, San Mateo, wild, woodside
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Tuesday, February 23rd, 2010
Here’s some fresh video from YouTubes’s doghousefm. It seems that the famous incident started when Epic Beard Guy Thomas Alexander Bruso boarded an AC Transit bus so he could go “to Frisco to get some weed.” His original plan for his mother’s funeral:
“I’m going to wear a powder blue fucking suit, and a white shirt and a red tie and a fucking breast cancer pin…”
Comes now the fight loser “Michael” (who appears to be on a first-name-only basis with DJ “JV“):
“First of all, I’d like to aPOlogize to AC Transit…”
It goes on and on, Black History Month, 5150, bygones, veterans, arthritis, murder, parole, apologies, brothers, stolen money, leaking, ass kicking, Strike Force(?) Showtime TV, 10,000 kids, cocaine - it goes on and on.
Can’t remember which morning-zoo / dawg-pound joint this screengrab came from. Oh yes, it was from WILD 94.9 FM:
And here’s more information about the now-cancelled plans for a rematch.
We’re approaching endgame on this one…
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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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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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Saturday, March 7th, 2009
It’s not a chicken/duck hybrid – it’s a Muscovy Duck (Cairina moschata), all the way from Latin America.
Some Musky fans want us all to “stop the lies and the killings” so there must be some problems with these birds. Muskies don’t like to swim all that much, but they seem to manage O.K. in Golden Gate Park. Do some people come to San Francisco to dump off their unwanted pets? Apparently.
Check out those talons – unusual for a duck:
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Speaking of which, also note the red-eared slider turtle, which also is an exotic species.
Tags: Duck, exotic, face, golden gate park, goose, lake, Muscovy, red, Red-Faced, San Francisco, stow, wild
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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, parrots, 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:
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, red, red masked, San Francisco, telegraph, tree, waterfront, wild, wild parrots
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