On our trip to the Ranch last Monday, we observed many of the rights of spring, golden eagles feeding their young in a roadside nest, vulture eggs inside a hollow oak, a turkey gobler strutting and gobbling, trout smolt heading downstream, a gopher snake in the road, plump does ready to give birth and [...]
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The Snakes of Spring
Posted in outdoors, photography, snakes, trout, wildflowers, wildlife, tagged rattle snakes, spring wildfowers on April 9, 2009 | Leave a Comment »
The Trout of LaCosta Creek
Posted in trout, wildlife, tagged Alameda Creek steelhead, LaCosta Creek, trout spawning on March 3, 2009 | Leave a Comment »
LaCosta Creek is a tributary of Alameda Creek and is blocked from San Francisco Bay by Turner Dam at San Antonio Reservoir. Trout in San Antonio Reservoir spawn in LaCosta Creek during the winter months. Very little rainfall fell during December and January, but the rains of February and March have produced a run of large [...]
