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on Nicole Crosby Appears to Have Won the District 2 City Council Seat; She Leads Richard Bailey by 9 Points and 3,000 Votes: “Just out of curiosity, how did he “sort of concede”? He is done for sure. I calculate that he would…” Nov 6, 08:03
on Nicole Crosby Appears to Have Won the District 2 City Council Seat; She Leads Richard Bailey by 9 Points and 3,000 Votes: “He has now kinda sorta conceded. I hope he now moves on to some other state and tries his luck…” Nov 5, 19:54
on ‘No’ on Gloria Recall: Let Him Languish: “Okay, Toad has been an unmitigated disaster. Incompetent management and programs incompetently implemented. But, recall with only two years left…” Nov 5, 17:44
on ‘No’ on Gloria Recall: Let Him Languish: “Joe, the story doesn’t say Filner was recalled. It says he was ousted. He resigned because his own party demanded…” Nov 5, 16:09
on ‘No’ on Gloria Recall: Let Him Languish: “Until I see an architects portrayal with a stadium of ADEQUATE size I won’t believe it. I’m so sick of…” Nov 5, 13:20
on Kids on Halloween Picked Up Mushroom Gummies from Porch in OB: “Could someone report the location this house was in, not address necessarily but area – like Sunset Cliffs Blvd between…” Nov 5, 13:09
on ‘No’ on Gloria Recall: Let Him Languish: “I would like to suggest the group that should be at the forefront of the recall effort: the LGBT Community.…” Nov 5, 12:09
on ‘No’ on Gloria Recall: Let Him Languish: “The Midway Rising Structure Chart documents ownership of Midway Rising Partners, LLC with: 90% for E. Stanley Kroenke and his…” Nov 5, 12:09
on ‘No’ on Gloria Recall: Let Him Languish: “Let him stew in his own juice for the rest of his term.” Nov 5, 11:34
on ‘No’ on Gloria Recall: Let Him Languish: “Thank you. All Charter changes must be done carefully. My purpose was to raise the larger related issue. The change…” Nov 5, 10:17
on ‘No’ on Gloria Recall: Let Him Languish: “I’m just curious, because I’ve seen you mention it before, about having Kroenke buy the Sports Arena land. For those…” Nov 5, 09:54
on ‘No’ on Gloria Recall: Let Him Languish: “A few historical and procedural corrections are needed here. Bob Filner’s political career was not ended by a recall. He…” Nov 5, 09:35
Thanks for this. I love our San Diego birds, even the crows. This morning, like every morning just after dawn, I watch as 100 or more crows make their way en masse over South Park, coming from South Bay and heading to the North County landfills. It’s kind of awesome.
Pelican’s bait balls in Ocean Beach were most likely due to California corbina, which are a good, mild-flavored fish with a soft texture and low fat content. They are bottom eaters. They have a long, slender, cylindrical-shaped body with a barbel on the tip of the lower jaw. Corbina dine almost exclusively on sand crabs— soft-shelled sand crabs. Pier anglers can sometimes spot beds of sand crabs near piers during low tides. These are the areas the corbina will invade and seek out food as the tide moves inshore.
Another report of bait balls in Ocean Beach involved very large “sand crabs” (Emerita analoga) aka “Mole Crab,” a gray soft shelled crab that hides in the sand where surf washes and withdraws, revealing V-shaped feathery antennae that capture microscopic organic food. People see them where the water is a quarter inch or less, as do shore birds. Now, when I was a little boy living in Long Beach decades before the rip-rap marinas and Queen Mary, my father and I went surf fishing for corbina, barred perch, and croaker using those large sand crabs as bait. But when I came to live in San Diego, the sand crabs here were always tiny (smaller than a dime) and useless for fishing bait. Now suddenly there is a bloom of millions of large sand crabs in Ocean Beach. I would like to hear from a marine biologist why this has suddenly happened?
I’ve been waiting for ornithologists somewhere to make the OB pelicans on the pier a case study! Is this normal to have the pier taken over by pelicans en masse?!! Is the ocean filled with more fish these days, attracting the pelicans, or did the pelicans swoop in simply for the sake of the empty pier… and is there enough fish for them all?!!