October 24, 2007
SFist Photo: Cleaning Up Golden Gate Park
This Great Blue Heron did its part at the Wildfowl Pond at the San Francisco Botanical Garden at Strybing Arboretum.
Have you noticed a big improvement in the environment at Golden Gate Park recently? The "slanderous" Mr. Nevius certainly has. Our little park has been making the international news lately, usually not for good reasons. Let's hope things get better soon.
This big bird was actually going for a meal. See you after the jump.
A Great Egret that might have been too ambitious.
Semi-submerged aluminum cans look just like a tasty treat to waterfowl. These kinds of big birds go after all kinds of animals, like snakes, frogs, turtles and fish. The large ornamental carp in the photo above are probably too big to eat, but just barely. Good luck, animals of GGP.
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For that bird... mmmmm, beer... d'Oh!
I don't know what kind of media outlet Medindia is, but it seems even more biased than the crap churned out by the Chronicle and Examiner.
Residents are referred to in quotation marks? Are you not a real resident unless you actually live on that street, shitting in the bushes?
And on the recent crime spate, this "media source" says "The police say there are "similarities" in the three deaths, and speculation about a single homicide suspect is rampant."
Even though both local papers have quote the police department as saying the events are unrelated.
Sounds like just another "it's our civil right to crap in the park and shoot up in your driveway" article, and an attempt to blame these recent homicides on angry homeowners, when really, it's just a bunch of crackheads killing each other. I mean for crying out loud, the guy on Monday is standing there with a bullet wound, yet refuses to cooperate with police. If you or I got shot, damn straight we'd be "cooperative."
This kind of blog hardly counts as "international news" in my opinion. I thought this was going to be a link to the International Herald Tribune, or some other reputable source. This article is far from that.
I think the D'oh! came when the bird realized it was Coors, not a quality local SF beer like Anchor Steam or Speakeasy or 21st Amendment.
Well it IS international news.
The site from India appears to have rewritten this article:
http://www.sfgate.com/cgi-bin/article.cgi?file=/c/a/2007/10/20/MNK4ST4UL.DTL
How sad is it that this bird is doing what most humans don't--clean up the bloody park?