Comments on: Where is that Owl?

By: Mackenzie Sowers

Mackenzie Sowers — Thu, 17 Jul 2008 20:13:30 +0000

The Park is actually not legally supposed to create playing feilds, and at the waterfront commitee meeting on monday, it seemed like they were not going to, since it wasn’t really allowed anyways.

By: admin

admin — Fri, 16 May 2008 00:03:02 +0000

Thanks for your comment Phil.

There is an interesting discussion/reply on Phil’s blog “Ridiculous whining about Burrowing Owl habitat creation” from Clay Larson, a member of Albany’s Waterfront Committee.

By: Phil Price

Phil Price — Thu, 15 May 2008 22:24:52 +0000

My blog, the Bay Area Bird Blog, has some posts on this subject. A City of Berkeley report on the owls at the Gilman Street site is on the City’s website; some other relevant reports are on there too, you can look around. Burrowing owls (plural) were seen at the site by birders in 2003 and 2004 (and maybe earlier, for all I know); this year there were four burrowing owls at Cesar Chavez Park in Berkeley, across the cove from the playing fields site (my blog has some information about the problems they’ve had there).

In short, there are multiple burrowing owls in the area, but no guarantee that the habitat creation plan will succeed.