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

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Coconut octopus

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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Dispatch

ERMA

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Meanwhile, Back at the Rodeo

Slow Frogs

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

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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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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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