BAIR ISLAND, REDWOOD CITY CA

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’

Posted on August 2, 2018 02:50 AM by bob-dodge bob-dodge

Observations

Photos / Sounds

What

Wild and Domestic Radishes (Raphanus raphanistrum ssp. sativus)

Observer

bob-dodge

Date

August 1, 2018 11:16 AM PDT

Photos / Sounds

What

Wild and Domestic Radishes (Raphanus raphanistrum ssp. sativus)

Observer

bob-dodge

Date

August 1, 2018 11:16 AM PDT

Description

2.5 mile walk on this restored island. Lots of exotics have moved in. They are worning hard to get the natives established again

Photos / Sounds

What

California Poppy (Eschscholzia californica)

Observer

bob-dodge

Date

August 1, 2018 10:49 AM PDT

Description

2.5 mile walk on this restored island. Lots of exotics have moved in. They are worning hard to get the natives established again

Photos / Sounds

What

Common Spikeweed (Centromadia pungens)

Observer

bob-dodge

Date

August 1, 2018 10:08 AM PDT

Description

2.5 mile walk on this restored island. Lots of exotics have moved in. They are working hard to get the native plants established again

Photos / Sounds

What

California Poppy (Eschscholzia californica)

Observer

bob-dodge

Date

August 1, 2018 10:49 AM PDT

Description

2.5 mile walk on this restored island. Lots of exotics have moved in. They are worning hard to get the natives established again

Photos / Sounds

What

Coyote Brush (Baccharis pilularis)

Observer

bob-dodge

Date

August 1, 2018 10:04 AM PDT

Description

2.5 mile walk on this restored island. Lots of exotics have moved in. They are worning hard to get the natives established again

Photos / Sounds

What

Alkali Heath (Frankenia salina)

Observer

bob-dodge

Date

August 1, 2018 11:31 AM PDT

Description

2.5 mile walk on this restored island. Lots of exotics have moved in. They are worning hard to get the natives established again

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