Aquatic Park EGRET is the stewardship group for the tidal wetlands of Berkeley’s largest city park. Volunteers from the community help us tend native coastal plantings to improve the shoreline of San Francisco Bay for wildlife habitat.
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January 28, 2009 12:34 am | 
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Walk around Aquatic Park with Mark Liolios (EGRET) and Toni Mester (CESP)
Saturday September 22 – 10 AM-12:30 PM
The walk is 2 miles on paved trail, suitable for wheelchairs, skateboards, and bikes with a few off-road spots that are not wheel friendly.
Appropriate dress in layers, sun hat. walking shoes and water bottle.
We will provide information relevant to 3 upcoming public processes:
For more information call Toni at 510-848-8234
City politics, EGRET, Science/environment | admin | September 16, 2012 1:18 pm | Comments (0)
Our late rains have the poppies going wild. This batch is in the SW corner of the Model Yacht Basin, near the old flag pole.
Poppies in bloom
Plants and flowers | admin | June 5, 2011 11:40 pm | Comments (0)
Vote for Mark and EGRET here. Deadline for voting is Sunday, October 10, 2010.
For more than a decade, EGRET under the leadership of Mark Liolios has worked to transform Aquatic Park into great habitat for herons, egrets, shorebirds, native plants — and people! On September 13, the Trust for Public Land, with Cox Enterprises, has named him one of five “Cox Conserves Heroes” for the Bay Area for 2010! See the Sept. 14 story on www.Berkeleyside.com!
Mark and four other finalists receive $1,250 for the nonprofit of their choice — and Mark has chosen Berkeley Partners for Parks (EGRET’s sponsoring organization)! If Mark gets the most online votes, BPFP will get a total of $5,000!
Watch videos of the five winners and vote online for your favorite at
www.coxconservesheroes.com/san-francisco-bay-area-ca/2010-finalists.aspx. Deadline for voting is Sunday, October 10, 2010.
Click the video below to start it, click it again to view it without the right side being cropped.
EGRET | admin | September 15, 2010 9:32 pm | Comments (0)
The following video was posted on YouTube showing some sights at Aquatic Park (watch the bike ride past the egret on the grass):
And here’s one of egrets feeding at the north end:
Birding, Videos | admin | November 15, 2009 1:23 pm | Comments (0)
The image below fades between Berkeley’s waterfront in 1917 and 2009.
Notice that the current east shoreline of Aquatic Park is the historic shoreline of the Bay. Also notice the current railroad line appears in the 1917 map.
Image source:
Uncategorized | admin | July 6, 2009 11:31 am | Comments (0)
Obie Gilkerson, a friend of EGRET and photographer extraordinare, has posted an album of photos of birds at Aquatic Park. View it here: http://obiegilkerson.zenfolio.com/p795881642. Click the “Slideshow” button to view all the photos as a slideshow.
Birding | Liolios | June 11, 2009 8:53 am | Comments (0)
The event was organized by a local volunteer and promoted through President Obama’s service website: www.usaservice.org/
Volunteer | admin | April 16, 2009 6:57 am | Comments (0)
Eighteen students from UC Berkeley, as part of “Berkeley Project Month – Greener Berkeley!”, spread the wood chips from three piles of mulch around the bases of several shoreline cypress trees planted two years ago by second graders from Rosa Parks Elementary School. After lunch they did trail improvement work, mounding the soil to create a wildlife overlook for park visitors.
Volunteer | admin | March 26, 2009 8:57 pm | Comments (0)
Twelve very young students at Black Pine Circle came to the park with their parents on March 13th. They had a great time watching the egrets and herons while they watered the newly planted shoreline trees and cleared a visitor trail along the south side of Middle Pond.
Birding, Volunteer | admin | March 13, 2009 8:58 pm | Comments (0)
Seventh graders from Head-Royce School worked along the southwestern shoreline of the Main Lagoon on March 6th. The twenty-five students, and the teachers and parents who accompanied them, protected the Monterey Cypress at that corner, as well as adjacent native shrubs, by covering the thistles and other invasive weeds with the wood chips from two enormous piles.
Volunteer | admin | March 6, 2009 8:54 pm | Comments (0)
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