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Birding and other pleasures and aggravations, in Berkeley and beyond, by Ron Sullivan.

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January 17, 2012

Like Meeting a Celebrity

The California Academy of Sciences has a coconut octopus. You might have seen videos of this species toting coconut husks around by way of portable shelter.

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January 12, 2012

Dispatch

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January 5, 2012

Meanwhile, Back at the Rodeo

Across the road from Rodeo Lagoon in the Marin Headlands; late December (and still not wet).

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January 4, 2012

And Again

Tuesday, on my way to yet another medical appointment—Xolair shots at the allergist’s—I was approaching the stop sign in front of Alta Bates hospital and saw a flurry of pigeons being scattered by a single dark dash, an arrowflight winged projectile: another merlin.

Either I’m fantastically lucky in this or we’re having a merlin irruption. They commonly winter here, but not in such large numbers that I see them by accident.

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January 2, 2012

And

On the way to my shrink’s today, between San Quentin and Larkspur: a merlin, perched on the roadside wire.

So far, so good.

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