Mare Island

Yesterday we went to Mare Island, near Vallejo in the north part of the San Francisco Bay, to go to the SF Bay Flyway Festival. We got to go on a short birdwatching hike for families. Mare Island used to be a naval shipyard, and is gradually being converted to housing.

Owen borrowed some binoculars from the festival folks and checked out the birds. We saw about 10 or 12 different kinds, generally all regular types like hawks, sparrows, a kite, ravens, a black phoebe, and turkey vultures. We also got to check out some cliff swallows' nests.




Douglas enjoyed running around on the island.








It was pretty there. We saw some owl pellets below these palms and got to check out the mouse bones therein. Pretty cool.