For strolling nature lovers, a quiet block in Mountain View may be the busiest street in town. If you don't believe it, just look up.
Tucked in the shadow of the Google campus, you can glimpse some of the most magnificent shorebirds in the Bay Area.For strolling nature lovers, a quiet block in Mountain View may be the busiest street in town. If you don't believe it, just look up.
"This is probably my favorite. It's a Great egret," said Camden, showing off a digital photograph from his camera. Matthew Dodder is executive director of the Santa Clara Valley Audubon Society. He says the birds chose the area themselves. But over the past decade, their neighbors have pitched in to make them feel at home."They like these trees, which were clearly planted here. At some point, Google moved in in 2014, and they discovered that the colony here, some of the locals might have known it was here already.
"This is about 20% of the monitored population of great egrets in the South Bay and the numbers do seem to be good," Dodder said.
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