Happy Monday! Dishing up your Bay Area nature news diet:
- A flamingo has turned up near the Sunnyvale sewage treatment plant, and local zoos say none of theirs is missing. [San Jose Mercury News]
- Burrowing owls make a nest near a freeway retaining wall on Hwy 4 widening, and construction makes accommodations. [Contra Costa Times]
- Could Gov. Brown’s water tunnels from Delta increase fracking in California? [Indybay.org]
- Images of sea turtles, California quail help deter graffiti in Oakland. [Oakland Tribune]
- “Mollusk matchmaker” successful in getting the first captive white abalone to spawn in a decade at Bodega Bay lab. [Sacramento Bee]
- Hearing the ‘D’ word among water planners in Marin. [Marin Independent Journal]