Diario de bob-dodge

BAIR ISLAND, REDWOOD CITY CA
August 1, 2018

After leaving my car at the service center on Industrial, I crossed over the freeway and enter Bait Island Preserve, part of the Don Edwards Wildlife Preserve, currently under restoration after decades of being a wasteland, literally. Most of the work is done and the task ahead is to restrict the exotics and are trying to take over and to let Nature work her magic.

Observed: Black Phoebe, Black-necked Stilt, Willet, Common Crow, Long-billed Curlew, Rock Dove, Cliff Swallow, Ring-billed Gull, Marbled Godwit, Great Egret, Killdeer, Snowy Egret, Sanderling, Starling, Canada Goose, White Pelican, Double-crested Cormorant, Forster’s Tern, Common Raven. Possible Pygmy Blue Butterfly that feeds on Alkali Heath, Cabbage Butterfly, a number of flowering plants that are unknown but submitted to iNat.(2 versions of Wild Radish, California Poppy, Coyote Brush (male in bloom), Alkali Heath, Common Spikeweed).

2.6 miles from Service Center to northern platform and return. Approx. time: 1 hour 45’

AUGUST 12, 2018
LOCATION: NORTHEAST corner of the house

I made a portable camera stand by placing a 4 foot 3x3 post into a gallon+ size plastic plant pot and then filling with a wet mortar and gravel mix for weight. I was then able to place the post close to the spot I wanted to photograph. This was a stone pot planted with succulents one of which had sent up three flowering spikes. I had noticed hummingbirds visiting the flowers and so set up the camera there.

I left the camera there for 4 days with the following results: 128 photos total of which approximately 100 were of Anna’s Hummingbird, female; 2 Dark-eyed Juncos, 3 Black-tailed Deer(on other side of fence and about 28 human photos including me. Will post selected hummers, juncos and deer to iNaturalist.

TRAIL NOTES. AUGUST 13, 2018. CHARLESTON SLOUGH
9:05 a.m., sunny/haze, light wind. Spotting scope and iPhone

Killdeer, Black-neck Stilt, Ring-bill Gull, Western Gull, Mallard, Marbled Godwit, Great Egret, Snowy Egret, Sanderling, Starling, Canada goose, White Pelican(150+), Double-crested Cormorant, Forster’s Tern, American Crow, Northern Mockingbird, Lesser Goldfinch, Mallard, American Avocet, Black-crowned Night Heron, Anna’s Hummingbird, Savannah Sparrow, White-tailed Kite, Barn Swallow, Willet, Long-billed Curlew, Turkey Vulture, Great-Blue Heron, Pie-billed Grebe, House Finch

Grindelia, Dodder, Blue Elderberry, Sweet Fennel
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