Walking Distance: 2.1 mi. (estim.)
Walking Time: 1 hr. (4:58 - 5:58 p.m.)
Start and End Point: Public parking lot (open sunrise to sunset, day use only); end of Fremont Blvd., Fremont, CA
This evening I returned to walk the second (southern) half of the Coyote Creek Lagoon Trail, part of the Don Edward San Francisco Bay National Wildlife Refuge area.
As I walked out toward the Bay, I passed a crew and a few pieces of heavy machinery involved in some dredging, or removing plants from a water channel. Good for flood control, maybe, but as I was watching the large areas of mud and marsh grasses being peeled off, I couldn't help but think that this probably displaces wildlife that had settled in the area as well.
![](https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/b/R29vZ2xl/AVvXsEhcbgqbkyI-rGAtnRz5y0jFTI_eJ6SjsnYNdY-p3nMilNpDOIc9cytR5n7qg4RbbM5NGtfsMTdZmfEW7Epxg9YQdsYtYsQEi0QyfhzI9dXnsPgDPfXbA-wGS4bnxSVuapY0oIxjjZPOGDk/s200/CoyoteCreekLagoon.BlkNeckSentries.8.4.11.600.jpg)
It was another nice, summer evening walk, with large numbers of various shorebirds, stilts and avocets. As usual, the black-necked stilts were the alarmists among their fellow bird colleagues, with sentries crying out in warning every time I stopped on the trail to take pictures
-- even when I took no steps closer to them, and was using a telephoto lens. Yes, it's happened. I've become one of those crazy bird ladies, telling the stilts that they were annoyingly over-worried. On the other hand, I had spotted gray foxes in this area last week, so I suppose they're better off safe than sorry.
And maybe the big herd/flock of American Avocets nearby appreciated someone keeping an eye out for danger.
![](https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/b/R29vZ2xl/AVvXsEhRmb6buv1dlCd4BJpbFAAcC-BC5uk4vEP-2KnGLa-kmPCui0QWNujcROqlV6VUjSebldq7jwXPLvKVW6HwrL2gHAv1ThUH-nyHHFbJMOtxOLvndg3IDARRzXWeK5Ky8H3DXUbJg_U2jqg/s200/CoyoteCreekLagoon.BirdsBldgsHills.8.4.11.600.jpg)
Wildlife Sightings:
1 mockingbird; 4 ground squirrels; 3 killdeer; 6 snowy egrets, 1 great egret; 4 sea gulls; 6 swallows; 42 black-necked stilts; 80 ducks; 56 unidentified brownish shorebirds (UBBs); 57 American Avocets; 28 Canada geese; 1 cormorant; 4 crows; 1 kite (bird); 4 red-winged blackbirds; 2 dragonflies; 3 little brown jobs (LBJs)
Walking Time: 1 hr. (4:58 - 5:58 p.m.)
Start and End Point: Public parking lot (open sunrise to sunset, day use only); end of Fremont Blvd., Fremont, CA
This evening I returned to walk the second (southern) half of the Coyote Creek Lagoon Trail, part of the Don Edward San Francisco Bay National Wildlife Refuge area.
As I walked out toward the Bay, I passed a crew and a few pieces of heavy machinery involved in some dredging, or removing plants from a water channel. Good for flood control, maybe, but as I was watching the large areas of mud and marsh grasses being peeled off, I couldn't help but think that this probably displaces wildlife that had settled in the area as well.
![](https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/b/R29vZ2xl/AVvXsEhcbgqbkyI-rGAtnRz5y0jFTI_eJ6SjsnYNdY-p3nMilNpDOIc9cytR5n7qg4RbbM5NGtfsMTdZmfEW7Epxg9YQdsYtYsQEi0QyfhzI9dXnsPgDPfXbA-wGS4bnxSVuapY0oIxjjZPOGDk/s200/CoyoteCreekLagoon.BlkNeckSentries.8.4.11.600.jpg)
![](https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/b/R29vZ2xl/AVvXsEhKyvJPMe5jfea5goGMP15WfKU2JgRxQZJzHA8KDTL81vg1-8Pm9GvLFkolzyb5Q_gWl9csJA3SqyPN6hE-HxJmQK7hGm0340hVpF0mY8ZII8ljWwo82sKIHg0t9PUJsz_PISUy8CT93LQ/s200/CoyoteCreekLagoon.Avocets.8.4.11.600.jpg)
-- even when I took no steps closer to them, and was using a telephoto lens. Yes, it's happened. I've become one of those crazy bird ladies, telling the stilts that they were annoyingly over-worried. On the other hand, I had spotted gray foxes in this area last week, so I suppose they're better off safe than sorry.
And maybe the big herd/flock of American Avocets nearby appreciated someone keeping an eye out for danger.
![](https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/b/R29vZ2xl/AVvXsEhRmb6buv1dlCd4BJpbFAAcC-BC5uk4vEP-2KnGLa-kmPCui0QWNujcROqlV6VUjSebldq7jwXPLvKVW6HwrL2gHAv1ThUH-nyHHFbJMOtxOLvndg3IDARRzXWeK5Ky8H3DXUbJg_U2jqg/s200/CoyoteCreekLagoon.BirdsBldgsHills.8.4.11.600.jpg)
Wildlife Sightings:
1 mockingbird; 4 ground squirrels; 3 killdeer; 6 snowy egrets, 1 great egret; 4 sea gulls; 6 swallows; 42 black-necked stilts; 80 ducks; 56 unidentified brownish shorebirds (UBBs); 57 American Avocets; 28 Canada geese; 1 cormorant; 4 crows; 1 kite (bird); 4 red-winged blackbirds; 2 dragonflies; 3 little brown jobs (LBJs)
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