Best Bird Watching Area Oakland Near Me

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One of many avocet that we saw when we came for bird watching in Eden Landing Ecological Reserve in

San Francisco Bay at Hayward, California on November 22, 2020. The avocet is a distinctively-patterned

Zoom in for a close up view of the long, thin, up-curving bill of avocet. Avocet sweep their curved beaks from

Side to side underwater as they slowly walk through shallow water – often times in groups. This sweeping

Action stirs up aquatic insects, crustaceans, small fish and seeds which allow the birds to filter and eat.

This is the Eden Landing Ecological Reserve Parking lot on Eden Landing Road between Arden Rd and San

Francisco Bay Trail in Hayward, California 94545 as shown on this interactive Google Map. It has parking

Space for about 22 cars. It took us only 25 minutes of driving to reach this parking lot.


From the parking lot, visitors walk on this Eden Landing Road for about 360 yards to the end which is a

Staging Area at Mt Eden Creek. Then visitors take a short bridge to cross the Mt. Eden Creek to reach the


San Francisco Bay Shore for bird watching as shown by the Pin on this interactive Map. The Eden Landing

Bay Trail primarily follows the perimeter of the restored and managed wetlands and provides year-round

One of several wetlands and Wildlife Ponds in the 6,000 acres of former Salt Evaporation Ponds in Eden

Landing Ecological Reserve in San Francisco Bay near the east end of San Mateo Bridge in Hayward as

Shown in this interactive Google Map. Even thought there are many birds in here, they are spread out in very

When Avocet are out of water, we can see that they have very long legs as waders.

Managed salt ponds and diked areas in Eden Landing Ecological Reserve support resident shorebirds such as

Many avocet are busily eating something in the shallow water. Avocet forage in shallow fresh and saltwater

I took a movie of these avocet busily eating something in the water as shown in the following YouTube movie.

It was a windy day such that there are a lot of wind noise in the movie sound.

Zoom in on the distinctive black and white patterns of avocet in the air very far away.

Top-down view of the black and white patterns of avocet in the air.

I zoomed in and took a movie of many avocet in the air and on the water very far away as shown in the

Following YouTube movie. There were also some other kind of brown colored birds in the air near the end of

Https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=Owr7UzGs1eQ&feature=youtu.be


I had to use the 65X optical zoom of my compact super-zoom camera to zoom in to be able to see them well.

There are many miles of hiking trails on the levee and dikes for bird watchers, hikers and bikers to enjoy.

We also saw some egrets in action in this Ecological Reserve.

I zoomed in and took a movie of two groups of dark colored water birds flying low just above the water

Surface as shown in this YouTube Movie. Again, there are a lot of wind noise in the movie due to a windy day.


Https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=dUyHDkdYM0A&feature=youtu.be

From time to time, large groups of water birds fly high in the sky over Eden Landing Ecological Reserve. I

Zoomed in and took some pictures of them flying high and far away.

I zoomed in and took several movie clips of these high flying groups of water birds above Eden Landing

Https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=8VtTlmwM7fI&feature=youtu.be

Some stilts with very long legs. When they are sleeping, they stand on a single long leg.

I zoomed in and took movie clips of a stilt and a shorebird busily eating something in the shallow water as

Https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=fIqT4UZGi1E&feature=youtu.be

Zoom in on two of several terns in action far away.

One of the great blue herons with long legs as waders in Mt. Eden Creek.

One of the egrets with long legs as waders in Mt. Eden Creek.

4worldlovers: Next to the commercial bustle of Oakland International Airport is a 748-acre park leased from the Port of Oakland, protecting the remainder of a once extensive marshland at San Leandro Bay

At the intersection of Doolittle Drive and Swan Way is the Martin Luther King Jr. Memorial Grove, completed with community support and dedicated in 1993. The grove consists of a group of trees surrounding a grassy glade. There is also a brick wall inscribed with donors' names.

The 50-acre Arrowhead Marsh is a stopover on the Pacific Flyway and is part of the Western Hemisphere Shorebird Reserve Network--dogs must be on-leash at all times.

Roger Berry's sculpture "Duplex Cone" traces the sun's summer and winter solstice paths through the sky.

Another part of San Leandro Bay is accessible from a parking lot at the north end of Edgewater Drive. Garretson Point is named in honor of the late Fred Garretson, a Tribune reporter whose stories inspired successful efforts at bayland preservation. Access to Damon Marsh is from Oakport Drive in Oakland.