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Spring Warbler

On the West Coast, we’re blessed with a year-round warbler presence. Easterners have a bigger variety of warblers, but we have wintering warblers and summering warblers. With the arrival of spring, the Townsend’s Warblers have been replaced with Wilson’s Warblers, who are beginning to nest in and around the willows.
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Wilson’s Warbler

A Wilson’s Warbler with a freshly snatched evening snack. The fellow’s is sporting an especially bouffant cap.
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Scouting Oakwood Valley Trail

I tried out Outwood Valley Trail in the Marin Headlands this weekend. The trail is at the bottom of a gulley, looping around both banks of a stream. Going clockwise from the trailhead, the trail goes uphill as Oakwood Valley Trail and then back downhill as Oakwood Meadow Trail. eBird just lists the whole loop