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First thing we found was poison oak as we walked into the preserve. We heard many brids but had a hard time spotting them or getting them to perch long enough to get a good look. Here is the Lazuli Bunting that cooperated.

We saw plenty of humming birds and this Anna's humming bird stayed for a while. Although it was rather dry here, there were a number of wild flowers in bloom.

Here are a spotted towhee, robin and purple finch.

Along the trail was a Quarry pit with serveral labyrinths marked out.

This king snake was seen on the way in and then found out sunning itself when we came back out.

This walk started with a bit of a drizzle and fog, but we had more birds to look at and they were larger. We had willets, snowy egrets and great blue herons.

We walked out the pier at Arrow marsh and were greeted with this California clapper rail feeding, barn swallows nesting under the pier and this black phoebe.

We had several more views California clapper rails and lots of brown pelicans fishing in the estuary or flying over.

We had many views of Forester's terns flying by and fishing.

We also saw several squirrels, these Savanah sparrows and a black phoebe that perched for a brief moment.

Our last sightings were of mallards in eclipse plumeage and this juvenile scaup.

I got to this park before the rest of the folks and had a chance to watch blue birds and finches flying around the filed and water trough. This California Towhee was in the parking lot. Further up the trail we spotted the scrub jay.

We had several red tail hawks and turkey vultures flying over the hills. this park is mostly open grassland hills and oak trees. There is also a riparian area along a seasonal creek.

I was able to take a few shots of this American robin working the fileds. There were many western blue brds but they were too far away and moving too fast.

I forgot to check the camera this morning and didn't realize I had the B&W IR camera, body. The barn swallows were hanging out at the vistitor center in great numbers. Here we have a baby sitting on the roof and an adult sitting on the deck support.

We had least sand pipers, and stilts.

Several long billed curlew's were seen aling the trail.

More curlews and stilts.

The stilt and snowy egret were out on the edge of the bay. We also saw Forester's and least terns working the area.