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Barn Swallow, Hirundo rustica: Barn Swallows, true to their name, nest in barns and other human structures. Unlike cliff swallows, barn swallows do not nest in colonies. They grace the sky and consume great quantities of flying insects. Migration may take them all the way January 2020 to the southern tip of South America. Photo: Thomas Trinko
SUNDAY MONDAY TUESDAY WEDNESDAY THURSDAY FRIDAY SATURDAY DECEMBER 2019 FEBRUARY New Year’s Day S M T W T F S S M T W T F S 1 2 3 4 1 2 3 4 5 6 7 1 Trail Challenge Begins 8 9 10 11 12 13 14 2 3 4 5 6 7 8 15 16 17 18 19 20 21 9 10 11 12 13 14 15 22 23 24 25 26 27 28 16 17 18 19 20 21 22 29 30 31 23 24 25 26 27 28 29
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Martin Luther Asian Lunar 19 King Jr. Day 20 21 22 23 24 New Year 25
MLK Jr. Day of Service: Fungus Fair: MLK Jr. Regional Shoreline Tilden Nature Area
Youth Job Fair: Hayward Area Senior Center
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American White Pelicans, Pelicanus erythrorhynchos, and Black-neck Stilt, Himantopus mexicanus: In mudflats, saltmarshes, flooded fields, or salt pans, black- necked stilts (see lone bird in foreground) are among the most readily identified shorebirds. Their frequent calling makes them easy to locate. American white pelicans are some of the largest and heaviest birds in North America. Unlike February 2020 brown pelicans, which plunge-dive for prey, American white pelicans feed from the water’s surface. They are protected by the Migratory Bird Treaty Act and are a California Species of Special Concern. Photo: Jerry Ting
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JANUARY MARCH Youth Job Fair: Carol Severin, EBRPD Board Director 1994-2017, led the Park District into S M T W T F S S M T W T F S Pleasant Hill 1 1 2 3 4 1 2 3 4 5 6 7 establishing a full-service recreation department that has enriched the lives of East Bay Senior Center 5 6 7 8 9 10 11 8 9 10 11 12 13 14 communities, including children and families, seniors, and individuals with disabilities. 12 13 14 15 16 17 18 15 16 17 18 19 20 21 Severin promoted being active and having healthy activities for all abilities in the Regional Parks. She spearheaded a public information campaign on “short loop” 19 20 21 22 23 24 25 22 23 24 25 26 27 28 trails in the parks. The Jordan Pond Trail in Garin Regional Park was re-named the 26 27 28 29 30 31 29 30 31 Carol Severin Short Loop Trail in her honor in 2018. Photo: Rubiolo Photography Ground Hog Day 2 3 4 5 6 7 8
Lincoln’s Valentine’s Day 9 10 11 Birthday 12 13 14 15
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White-tailed Kite, Elanus leucurus: Watch for the delicate “Angel Hawk” hovering on its white pointed wings over marshes, grasslands, and open oak woodlands as it hunts for small mammals, primarily mice. This hawk is a Focal Species for Grassland Bird Conservation and a California Fully Protected March 2020 Species. Photo: Jerry Ting
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St. Patrick’s Day First Day Sheep 15 16 17 18 of Spring 19 20 Shearing Day: 21 Ardenwood Historic Farm
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Cesar Chavez FEBRUARY APRIL 29 30 Day 31 S M T W T F S S M T W T F S 1 1 2 3 4 2 3 4 5 6 7 8 5 6 7 8 9 10 11 9 10 11 12 13 14 15 12 13 14 15 16 17 18 16 17 18 19 20 21 22 19 20 21 22 23 24 25 23 24 25 26 27 28 29 26 27 28 29 30
Horned Lark, Eremophila alpestris: Horned Larks are small birds that live in grasslands and they’re roughly the same color and size as a clod of dirt. They thrive in well-managed rangelands and can be spotted searching the ground for insects throughout the Regional Parks. They have undergone a sharp decline in April 2020 the last half-century due to urban development and loss of agricultural fields, grasslands, and rangelands. Photo: Jerry Ting
SUNDAY MONDAY TUESDAY WEDNESDAY THURSDAY FRIDAY SATURDAY Jean Siri, EBRPD Board Director 1992-2006, April Fool’s Historic Tartan Day an environmentalist and civic leader, was an ardent Day 1 Season Begins: 2 3 Scottish Fair: 4 supporter of the 1961 founding of Save San Francisco Ardenwood Historic Farm Ardenwood Historic Farm Bay Association (Save The Bay). In her tenure on the Park District board, Siri was the driving force Egg Scramble: behind the development of the first regional shoreline Crab Cove Visitor Center dog park at Point Isabel Regional Shoreline and an advocate for underserved communities. Palm Sunday 5 6 7 Passover Begins 8 9 Good Friday 10 11
Easter 12 13 14 Tax Day 15 Passover Ends 16 17 18
19 20 21 Earth Day 22 23 Ramadan Begins 24 FREE Outdoor 25 Arbor Day Movie Night: Lake Chabot
MARCH MAY 26 27 28 29 30 S M T W T F S S M T W T F S 1 2 3 4 5 6 7 1 2 8 9 10 11 12 13 14 3 4 5 6 7 8 9 15 16 17 18 19 20 21 10 11 12 13 14 15 16 17 18 19 20 21 22 23 22 23 24 25 26 27 28 24 25 26 27 28 29 30 29 30 31 31
American Cliff Swallow, Petrochelidon pyrrhonota: Cliff swallows are graceful aerial foragers and consume large quantities of insects such as mosquitos and flies. Their nest colonies can be found on buildings, freeway overpasses, bridges and cliffsides. The Park District is fortunate to have several natural May 2020 colonies located on cliffs, where they are truly cliff swallows! Photo: Jerry Ting
SUNDAY MONDAY TUESDAY WEDNESDAY THURSDAY FRIDAY SATURDAY APRIL JUNE May Day S M T W T F S S M T W T F S 1 2 3 4 1 2 3 4 5 6 1 2 5 6 7 8 9 10 11 7 8 9 10 11 12 13 12 13 14 15 16 17 18 14 15 16 17 18 19 20 19 20 21 22 23 24 25 21 22 23 24 25 26 27 26 27 28 29 30 28 29 30 3 4 Cinco de Mayo 5 6 7 8 9
Mother’s Day 10 11 12 13 14 15 16 Mother’s Day: Ardenwood Historic Farm
Garin Barn 17 18 19 20 21 22 Opening Day: 23 Garin/Dry Creek Pioneer
Ramadan Ends 24 Memorial Day 25 26 27 28 29 30 Free Day/Open House: Ardenwood Historic Farm
Dr. Aurelia Henry Reinhardt, EBRPD Board Director 1934-1945, played a critical role in the creation 31 of a Regional Park District in the East Bay and served on the first EBRPD Board. A prominent community leader and president of Oakland’s Mills College from 1916 to 1943, Reinhardt was known for her stirring, farsighted lectures of social welfare, international peace relations, and encouraging young women to pursue higher education. In 2019, the EBRPD Board of Directors voted unanimously to the re-naming of Redwood Regional Park in honor of Dr. Reinhardt.
California Least Tern, Sternula antillarum browni: During the spring and summer, the “tiniest of our terns” migrate north from the warm beaches of Baja and Brazil to become uncommon-to-rare breeding visitors (late April through August). Due to habitat loss, human disturbance at nesting sites, non-native and over-abundant June 2020 predators, and modified or polluted foraging sites, this bird is listed as a Federal and California State Endangered Species. Photo: Jerry Ting
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Butterfly and Sand Castle and Bird Festival: 7 8 9 10 11 12 Sculpture Contest: 13 CoyoteCoyote HillsHills Crab Cove
Historic Hay Harvest: ArdenwoodArdenwood HistoricHistoric FarmFarm
Flag Day Juneteenth First Day 14 15 16 17 18 19 of Summer 20 Historic Hay Harvest: ArdenwoodArdenwood HistoricHistoric FarmFarm
Father’s Day 21 22 23 24 25 26 27 Historic Hay Harvest: ArdenwoodArdenwood HistoricHistoric FarmFarm
Mine MAY JULY 28 29 30 S M T W T F S S M T W T F S Open House: 1 2 1 2 3 4 Black Diamond Mines Black Diamond Mines 3 4 5 6 7 8 9 5 6 7 8 9 10 11 10 11 12 13 14 15 16 12 13 14 15 16 17 18 17 18 19 20 21 22 23 19 20 21 22 23 24 25 24 25 26 27 28 29 30 31 26 27 28 29 30 31
Bald Eagle, Haliaeetus leucocephalus: The national emblem of the United States since 1782, the once-endangered bald eagle flourished while under federal and state protection from 1940-2009. After recovering locally from threats of hunting, use of DDT, lead ingestion, pesticides and other toxins, the first bald eagle nest spotted in the Bay Area was at Lake Del Valle in 1996. Eagles also nest at Lake Chabot and several other reservoirs and July 2020 waterways in the greater Bay Area where fish are abundant. Bald eagles are a California Fully Protected Species. Photo: Dennis Stanworth
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JUNE AUGUST Independence S M T W T F S S M T W T F S 1 2 3 Day 4 1 2 3 4 5 6 1 7 8 9 10 11 12 13 2 3 4 5 6 7 8 Old-Fashioned 9 10 11 12 13 14 15 14 15 16 17 18 19 20 Independence Day: 16 17 18 19 20 21 22 21 22 23 24 25 26 27 Ardenwood Historic Farm 23 24 25 26 27 28 29 28 29 30 30 31
Concerts 5 6 7 8 9 at the Cove: 10 11 Crab Cove Visitor Center
Historic Wheat Harvest:12 13 14 15 16 17 18 Ardenwood Historic Farm
Historic Wheat Harvest: 19 20 21 22 23 24 25 Ardenwood Historic Farm
Historic Eid al-Adha Wheat Harvest: 26 27 28 29 30 31 Ardenwood Historic Farm
Peregrine Falcon, Falco peregrinus, and Short-Billed Dowitchers, Limnodromus griseus: Short-billed dowitchers probe for aquatic invertebrates by rhythmically inserting their bills up and down into mudflats, tidal wetlands, or shallow freshwater mud. Short-billed dowitchers are on the North American Bird Conservation Initiative Watch List due to population decline. A peregrine falcon flies over August 2020 the flock as it hunts medium-sized birds. Since the ban on DDT from the early 1970s, supported by large-scale nesting protection and releases to the wild, their populations have recovered. Photo: Jerry Ting
SUNDAY MONDAY TUESDAY WEDNESDAY THURSDAY FRIDAY SATURDAY JULY SEPTEMBER S M T W T F S S M T W T F S 1 2 3 4 1 2 3 4 5 1 5 6 7 8 9 10 11 6 7 8 9 10 11 12 12 13 14 15 16 17 18 13 14 15 16 17 18 19 19 20 21 22 23 24 25 20 21 22 23 24 25 26 26 27 28 29 30 31 27 28 29 30 FREE Outdoor 2 3 4 5 6 7 Movie Night: 8 Ardenwood Historic Farm
Concerts 9 10 11 12 13 at the Cove: 14 15 Crab Cove Visitor Center
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Georgette Morton, EBRPD Office Administrator 30 31 In 1931, Georgette Morton joined the campaign for the vote to establish an East Bay Regional Park District. Morton’s stellar clerical work landed her one of the first jobs at the Park District in 1934 as the sole office administrator for the Park District in its early years. She worked at the main office that was located at Temescal Regional Recreation Area’s historic Beach House.
Yellow Warbler, Setophaga petechia: This brightly colored songbird can be heard singing “I am so sweet, I am so sweet” from willows, wet thickets, and open woodlands as it gleans the foliage for insects. Yellow warblers are listed as priority 2 on California Bird Species of Concern September 2020 list and is also a Focal Species for Riparian Bird Conservation. Photo: Jerry Ting
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AUGUST OCTOBER Fish Festival: S M T W T F S S M T W T F S 1 2 3 4 Crab Cove 5 1 1 2 3 Visitor Center 2 3 4 5 6 7 8 4 5 6 7 8 9 10 9 10 11 12 13 14 15 11 12 13 14 15 16 17 16 17 18 19 20 21 22 Rail Fair: 23 24 25 26 27 28 29 18 19 20 21 22 23 24 Ardenwood Historic Farm 30 31 25 26 27 28 29 30 31
Rail Fair: Labor Day California Alameda Concerts Garin Ardenwood 6 7 8 Admissions Day 9 Chamber 10 at the Cove: 11 Apple Festival: 12 Historic Farm Rail Fair: Mixer: Crab Cove Visitor Center Garin/Dry Creek Pioneer Ardenwood Historic Farm Crab Cove Visitor Center
Rosh Hashana Coastal 13 14 15 16 17 Begins 18 Cleanup Day: 19 Shoreline and Lake Parks
FREE Outdoor Movie Night: Tilden Nature Area
Rosh Hashana First day Mine Ends 20 21 of Autumn 22 23 24 25 Open House: 26 Black Diamond Mines
Yom Kippur Sylvia McLaughlin, Save the Bay Co-founder, 27 28 29 30 was a true-spirited environmentalist and actively engaged community leader for many years. Through McLaughlin’s work, the East Bay community can enjoy a cleaner and healthier bay with miles of scenic shoreline trails and native habitat restoration areas. In 2013, the Park District celebrated the re-naming of Eastshore State Park in her honor. Photo: David Sanger
Great Horned Owl, Bubo virginianus: The booming hoot of the great horned owl can be found in wooded areas and trees throughout the Regional Parks. They are covered in extremely soft feathers that insulate them against the cold winter weather and help them fly very quietly in pursuit of prey. October 2020 These owls can sometimes be seen in the daylight hours, hidden in treetops awaiting nightfall – their prime hunting hours. Photo: Jen Joynt
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SEPTEMBER NOVEMBER S M T W T F S S M T W T F S 1 2 3 1 2 3 4 5 1 2 3 4 5 6 7 6 7 8 9 10 11 12 8 9 10 11 12 13 14 13 14 15 16 17 18 19 15 16 17 18 19 20 21 20 21 22 23 24 25 26 22 23 24 25 26 27 28 27 28 29 30 29 30
Gathering of 35th Annual Ohlone Peoples: 4 5 6 7 8 9 Harvest Festival: 10 Coyote Hills Ardenwood Historic Farm
35th Annual Indigenous Cowboy Harvest Festival: 11 People’s Day 12 13 14 15 16 Hootenanny: 17 Ardenwood Historic Farm Sunol
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Great Blue Heron, Ardea herodias: Great blue herons nest colonially, often sharing the same tree with great egrets and snowy egrets in Regional Parks locations such as Shadow Cliffs and Don Castro. In addition to foraging in wetlands, they occasionally patrol lawns, where they may snatch a gopher November 2020 with their long bills! Herons are vulnerable to wetland habitat loss and human disturbances. They are protected by the Migratory Bird Treaty Act. Photo: Jerry Ting
SUNDAY MONDAY TUESDAY WEDNESDAY THURSDAY FRIDAY SATURDAY Daylight Savings Election Day Time Ends 1 2 3 4 5 6 7
8 9 10 Veteran’s Day 11 12 13 Diwali 14
Mine Open House: Black Diamond Mines15 16 17 18 19 20 21
Historic Thanksgiving Season Ends: 22 23 24 25 Day 26 27 28 Ardenwood Historic Farm
The Meyers Sisters OCTOBER DECEMBER 29 30 As children in the early 1900s, Jeanette, Edith and S M T W T F S S M T W T F S Mildred Meyers played in the lush garden and estate 1 2 3 1 2 3 4 5 that is now a part of Dry Creek/Pioneer Regional 4 5 6 7 8 9 10 6 7 8 9 10 11 12 Park in Union City. In the 1960s the sisters fought the 11 12 13 14 15 16 17 13 14 15 16 17 18 19 proposed Foothill Freeway, including plans to bulldoze 18 19 20 21 22 23 24 20 21 22 23 24 25 26 the Meyers home. The sisters were successful and 25 26 27 28 29 30 31 27 28 29 30 31 ultimately they deeded 1,200 acres to the Park District.
California Ridgway’s Rail, Rallus obsoletus: These handsome gray-and- rusty birds are the largest of the rail breeds and found exclusively in the tidal marshes of the San Francisco Bay. Although known for its clapping call, during mating season you may hear it clapping or purring like a cat. Populations are declining largely due to wetland loss and degradation. Ridgway’s rails have December 2020 been listed as federally and state endangered since 1970 and are a California Fully Protected Species. Photo: Jerry Ting
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Western Snowy Plover (above), Charadrius nivosus: This small plover is an uncommon year- round resident along scattered sections of San Francisco Bay beaches. The Park District and the US Fish and Wildlife Service established a snowy plover resource protection area at Crown Beach in 2014 to protect the hard-to-see birds in their overwintering habitat site. Due to human disturbance, increased predation, and habitat degradation, the coastal breeding population is listed as a Federal Threatened Species and a California Species of Special Concern. Photo: Jerry Ting
California Quail (right), Callipepla californica: The beloved state bird of California, the California quail usually place their well-concealed nests on the ground and forage for seeds, leaves, flowers, and insects in chaparral and brushy areas of the Regional Parks. Their characteristic strut and quick run is especially charming when adult quails are seen ushering a line of babies rapidly toward the protective cover of scrub and bushes. Photo: Lee Greengrass
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