05-18-2020, 01:50 PM
Yesterday LCF and I met a couple friends (maintaining social distance) at the Alameda Creek Trail and went for maybe a 4-mile walk. That's about my limit now. Wide path, easy to avoid other people (and not many), but so breezy I had to remove my hearing aids, because they were overloading with a roar. The location can't be far from DM's Fremont place.
Notable sightings: Three colorful scarecrows in a field of harvested wheat (or that's what it looked like). A nice northern harrier on the hunt. Buzzards, red-wing blackbirds. And a rather large snake that I petted until it left the trail (sorry, dude, but too easy for a bike to assist your reproduction in a bad way). It was a gopher snake, with great markings.
Notable sightings: Three colorful scarecrows in a field of harvested wheat (or that's what it looked like). A nice northern harrier on the hunt. Buzzards, red-wing blackbirds. And a rather large snake that I petted until it left the trail (sorry, dude, but too easy for a bike to assist your reproduction in a bad way). It was a gopher snake, with great markings.