The Monterey Bay is always filled with wildlife with extensive kelp forests in the ocean and rolling hills along the coast. I’ve been to Monterey countless times, but each visit always has a surprise or something new.
Yearly Archives: 2017
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The Marin Art & Garden Center is an expansive set of gardens and spaces. It’s free to the public and it’s beautifully maintained by resident groups and volunteers.
Marshes, salt ponds, and mudflaps–a great combination for a hike and bird watching. Alviso Marina County Park is on the edge of the Don Edwards San Francisco Bay National Wildlife Refuge. With good visibility, you can see clear across the bay.
I visited the Don Edwards San Francisco Bay National Wildlife Refuge, by Fremont California. The refuge is 30,000 acres of protected habitat for local and migratory wildlife.
Close to Sacramento lies the Yolo Bypass, one of two areas built to protect Sacramento from floods. One part of the bypass is designated a wildlife area, which has vegetation that is compatible with the flooding function.
It’s my second year seeing nesting season out in the San Francisco Bay Area. It’s certainly an amazing area to see the large number of bird species and how they live throughout the year.
My quest to take photos of different bird species in Northern California has led me to acquire a lot of heavy and expensive equipment.