{"id":1000435,"date":"2007-03-06T08:04:31","date_gmt":"2007-03-06T13:04:31","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/www.elharo.com\/blog\/birding\/2007\/03\/06\/dawn-in-santa-clara\/"},"modified":"2008-09-03T09:45:51","modified_gmt":"2008-09-03T14:45:51","slug":"dawn-in-santa-clara","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.elharo.com\/blog\/birding\/2007\/03\/06\/dawn-in-santa-clara\/","title":{"rendered":"Dawn in Santa Clara"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>I&#8217;m just now realizing that the new earlier daylight savings time is going to play havoc with the planned <a href=\"http:\/\/www.sdexpo.com\/2007\/west\/birds.htm\">Birding BoF at SD 2007 West<\/a> in a couple of weeks. Sunrise isn&#8217;t going to happen till about 7:00 A.M., and I was planning to get going at 6:00. <\/p>\n<p>Can anyone currently birding in Santa Clara County give me a heads up to let me know what&#8217;s the earliest you think we could reasonably start on March 21? We could push back the start time a little, but I don&#8217;t have much time before I have to get everyone back to the hotel for the 8:30 A.M. first session. Possibly instead of walking back to the hotel, we could simply bird <a href=\"http:\/\/sunnyvale.ca.gov\/Departments\/Parks+and+Recreation\/Parks\/Baylands\/\">Sunnyvale Baylands Park<\/a> and then take cabs back. Here&#8217;s another question for locals: last year the park gates were open well before their scheduled opening time. Is that reliable? If we drive over, can we be confident we&#8217;ll be able to park?<br \/>\n<!--more--><\/p>\n<h2>Update: Problem Solved<\/h2>\n<p>I&#8217;m still not happy about the daylight savings time but I do now have a backup plan.  We&#8217;ll go to Sunnyvale Baylands County Park as planned, car pooling in private cars so we can drive back at 8:00. If the gates are closed, we&#8217;ll drive a little ways down the road to the Donald M. Somers Water Control Pollution Plant instead. They&#8217;ve got good birds, public parking, and no gates. <\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>I&#8217;m just now realizing that the new earlier daylight savings time is going to play havoc with the planned Birding BoF at SD 2007 West in a couple of weeks. Sunrise isn&#8217;t going to happen till about 7:00 A.M., and I was planning to get going at 6:00. Can anyone currently birding in Santa Clara [&hellip;]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[2],"tags":[410],"class_list":["post-1000435","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-birding","tag-flash"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.elharo.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/1000435","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.elharo.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.elharo.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.elharo.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.elharo.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=1000435"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.elharo.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/1000435\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.elharo.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=1000435"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.elharo.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=1000435"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.elharo.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=1000435"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}