Adventure: 028 - Birdwatching
Team: Thing One, Thing Two
Date: August 7, 2012
Location: Shoreline Park, Mountain
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Team Thing One, Thing Two has always had a thing for wild
life—whether it be deer, bear, butterflies, wildflowers, or birds.
But we have had little or no formal training. So while visiting our
parents we decided that we would take advantage of a docent
led bird walk at Mountain View's Shoreline Park. Our parents were
talked into coming with us. So the four of us went off on this
adventure.
It turned out that the docent-led
walk was not oriented towards birds, but towards the entire
ecology of the area around Shoreline Park. This included, both animal
and human histories. But there was a heavy emphasis of the birds of
the area. The walk took place over an hour of time and a mile
distance. During this time, the docent explained things like how the
burrowing owl will take up residence in a hill formerly of ground
squirrels. Shoreline Park currently has 9-10 owls but other South Bay
wildlife areas have many more and that in the Central Valley, there
is even more there. We also so kites, brown and white pelicans, gulls—of course, and
several other birds during our walk.
Of course, we have seen other birds as we walk along, for example a wild turkey at Chawse State Park, or a Gold Eagle at Millerton State Park.
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