For more infoĮast Bay Regional Park District Photography tips AC Transit #232 bus runs from Union City BART station to within about a mile of the park. Accessible by bike via Alameda Creek Trail. Owned and managed by regional park district. Birding trips led by the East Bay Regional Park District, Golden Gate Audubon Society, Ohlone Audubon Society, and San Francisco Bay Bird Observatory. Nectar garden, picnic tables, bike paths, visitor center open 10-4 Wednesday through Sunday. Fall through spring: Northern Shoveler, Northern Pintail, American Wigeon, Gadwall, Blue-winged, Green-winged and Cinnamon Teal, Canvasback, Bufflehead, Common Goldeneye, Ruddy Duck, Least and Western Sandpipers, dowitchers, Burrowing Owl, White-crowned and Golden-crowned Sparrows, Yellow-rumped Warbler. Summer breeders: Tree, Barn, and Cliff Swallows. Year-round: Pied-billed Grebe, Anna’s Hummingbird, Common Gallinule, Greater Yellowlegs, California Gull, American White Pelican, herons and egrets, White-tailed Kite, Northern Harrier, American Kestrel, Nuttall’s Woodpecker, Black Phoebe, California Scrub-Jay, Bushtit, Marsh and Bewick’s Wrens, Common Yellowthroat. Moderate to steep trails through the hills. Marshlands, grasslands, coastal shrub, oak woodlands, a flood channel, and salt ponds. I like to ride my bike to Coyote Hills, find a quiet corner, and contemplate what the Bay must have once been.Ĭlick on the coordinates below to view location: But you should also make time for the eponymous hills that rise up seemingly from nowhere - the Spanish apparently thought they were islands upon first arriving in 1769 - as well as for the less-pristine sections of the park, including ponds where commercial salt was once produced.
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An array of shorebirds adds to the mix.Įxploring these formerly brackish but now mostly freshwater marshes can take all day. Waterfowl, meanwhile, congregate from fall to spring, when ducks and coots are literally everywhere. I also saw five species of wading birds and charming Pied-billed Grebe chicks.Īll year, Marsh Wrens chatter in the cattails, and Northern Harriers and White-tailed Kites soar overhead. On my last visit, in July, I crossed paths with dozens of American White Pelicans, some close enough to render my binoculars pointless.
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The park is also home to an archeological site of an Ohlone Indian village(accessible by guided tour only). The marshes at Coyote Hills Regional Park are a bit like a portal to another time, to before shortsighted human development stripped San Francisco Bay of roughly 85 percent of its once-vast wetlands.