{"id":186,"date":"2006-03-12T11:23:37","date_gmt":"2006-03-12T16:23:37","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/www.elharo.com\/blog\/birding\/2006\/03\/14\/339-at-the-don-edwards-environmental-education-center\/"},"modified":"2008-09-01T13:52:48","modified_gmt":"2008-09-01T18:52:48","slug":"339-at-the-don-edwards-environmental-education-center","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.elharo.com\/blog\/birding\/2006\/03\/12\/339-at-the-don-edwards-environmental-education-center\/","title":{"rendered":"#340 at the Don Edwards Environmental Education Center"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>After getting a new rental car, I considered where I could profitably spend a late Sunday afternoon. The nearest site I hadn&#8217;t visited was the <a href=\"http:\/\/www.fws.gov\/desfbay\/basic.htm\">Don Edwards Environmental Education Center in Alviso<\/a> so I headed up Zanker Road to the center. This road passes through various sewer ponds and sewage treatment plants. The smell&#8217;s awful. The birds are great. <\/p>\n<p>By lucky happenstance I missed the turnoff to the center and took the next right into Alviso instead. I say it was lucky because I immediately spotted possibly a hundred Black-necked Stilts and eleven Mew Gulls! My fourth life bird for the day. Eventually the gulls flew off but not before posing for some pictures:<\/p>\n<p><img decoding=\"async\" id=\"image221\" src=\"http:\/\/www.elharo.com\/blog\/wp-content\/uploads\/2006\/04\/mewgulls.jpg\" alt=\"Mew Gulls in Alviso\" \/><\/p>\n<p>I turned around and headed back to the right road. This proved to be the best gull location of the trip. It conveniently offered both Ring-billed and California Gulls so I could practice comparing and distinguishing the two similar species. Also present were Herring and one Western Gull. However gulls weren&#8217;t all. I also had my first American White Pelican this trip:<\/p>\n<p><img decoding=\"async\" id=\"image222\" src=\"http:\/\/www.elharo.com\/blog\/wp-content\/uploads\/2006\/04\/pelican.jpg\" alt=\"American White Pelican at Don Edwards Environmental Education Center\" \/><\/p>\n<p>There were also the usual assortment of waterfowl and shorebirds including Eared Grebe, American Coot, and Snowy Egret.<\/p>\n<p>It was cold, damp, and grey so I only spent a couple of hours there. The site would be very interesting to explore in more depth in the future. Sunday, however, I instead decided to head over to Mountain View Shoreline to catch low tide. More on that in the next post. <\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>After getting a new rental car, I considered where I could profitably spend a late Sunday afternoon. The nearest site I hadn&#8217;t visited was the Don Edwards Environmental Education Center in Alviso so I headed up Zanker Road to the center. This road passes through various sewer ponds and sewage treatment plants. The smell&#8217;s awful. [&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-186","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\/186","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=186"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.elharo.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/186\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.elharo.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=186"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.elharo.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=186"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.elharo.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=186"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}