From bald eagle aeries to black-headed grosbeak, wonders await on these five trails.
Doug Henderson, center, sets up a spotting scope during a bird watching trip at the Corica Park golf course on Tuesday, May 23, 2023, in Alameda, Calif. The Golden Gate Audubon Society has weekly bird watching treks at the course where visitors have the chance to spot bald eagles, herons, ducks, and song birds.
Rick Lewis, left, and Doug Henderson, right, lead a bird watching trip at the Corica Park golf course on Tuesday, May 23, 2023, in Alameda, Calif. The Golden Gate Audubon Society has weekly bird watching treks at the course where visitors have the chance to spot bald eagles, herons, ducks, and song birds.
Then came the windstorm. Lewis doesn’t expect there will be more eggs this season and doesn’t know if the eagles will make the golf course their permanent home. However, its canals are filled with carp for them to feast on all year, and Big Junior doesn’t seem bothered by the proximity of people. While the couple remain, they offer a window into the devotion of birds known to mate for life.
The golf course is only accessible to birdwatchers via an Audubon Society walk. Find guided walks and tips on how to see the eagles off-property atTo get a sense of the amazing avian spectacle that took place in a remote valley near eastern Contra Costa’s Los Vaqueros Reservoir in early June, imagine the sights and sounds of a bee hive – but on a much bigger scale and with thousands of tricolored blackbirds replacing tiny buzzing insects.
A Red-winged Blackbird holds a grasshopper in it’s beak at a colony site near the Los Vaqueros Reservoir on Thursday, June 1, 2023, near Brentwood, Calif. Red-winged blackbirds in the wetlands along Kellogg Creek near the park’s north entrance. Plus ash-throated flycatchers, brown-headed cowbirds, starlings and a common yellow-throat. In June, bird experts were monitoring at least six golden eagle nests.
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