OCTOBER, 2016

A Great walk today while my Prius was being serviced down near the Baylands in Redwood City. Walked out a mile or so into restored marshlands and saw the a Peregrine Falcon in the transmission structure. Later it flew across the marsh getting ever lower until I lost track of it in the distance. Other observations were: Snowy Egret, Black-necked Stilt, Greater Yellowlegs, Sanderlings, Rock Dove, Killdeer, Song Sparrow, Great Egret, Willet, Northern Shoveler, Common Crow, White-crowned Sparrow, Short-billed Dowitcher, Mourning Dove, European Starling, Peregrine Falcon, Black Phoebe, Savannah Sparrow, Golden-crowned Sparrow, Black-crowned Sparrow, White-tailed Kite Ash-throated Flycatcher, Forster's Tern, Black-tailed Jackrabbit(tracks), House Finch, Red-tailed Hawk, Western Pygmy-Blue Butterfly, Sulphur Butterfly, Cabbage Butterfly.

The restoration project is massive and, unfortunately, proving excellent opportunities for invasive plants such as Dittrichia graveolens (Stinkwort) to get a foothold on the land. The areas closest to the freeway have the heaviest infestation.
Winter may arrive some day but until then........
Bob

Posted on Οκτώβριος 29, 2016 0349 ΜΜ by bob-dodge