5 weeks from Saturday to the waterfowl opener!
Anybody watching the game tonight, when you're at the intersection to the west of Levi's stadium (Great American Parkway and Tasman), it's actually 4 minutes at 4:30 am to the gate at Don Edwards San Francisco Bay National Wildlife Refuge. Then 2 minutes to open the combination padlock, and re-lock the gate (unless somebody else is there at the same time before or after you) and about 8 minutes down the levees to the parking area and sign/in cabinet. Then walk-in duck/goose hunting in the marshes of SF Bay.
Greenheads, widgeon, gadwall, green wing teal and of course, spoonies. Canada geese, but local birds there's not much of a migration on the coast like in the central flyway. There are occasional snow geese, and the main migration for the white-fronted (speckle belly) geese is down the central valley.
I can see the stadium when duck hunting in the distance, and see the Google buildings in the other direction. A man's gotta do what a man's gotta do to shoot ducks!
For a little history, there is the remains of an old bunch of buildings in an area about a mile north of there called Drawbridge, it's on a map. It was built in the 1870s when the first train tracks ran through the marshes. In the 1890s, there was a 4am train that ran to there from San Jose for duck hunters. There were a bunch of duck hunting shacks, a whiskey bar and supposedly a brothel since the Sheriff didn't want to bother going into the marshes- or maybe he did? This building was the brothel.
Anybody watching the game tonight, when you're at the intersection to the west of Levi's stadium (Great American Parkway and Tasman), it's actually 4 minutes at 4:30 am to the gate at Don Edwards San Francisco Bay National Wildlife Refuge. Then 2 minutes to open the combination padlock, and re-lock the gate (unless somebody else is there at the same time before or after you) and about 8 minutes down the levees to the parking area and sign/in cabinet. Then walk-in duck/goose hunting in the marshes of SF Bay.
Greenheads, widgeon, gadwall, green wing teal and of course, spoonies. Canada geese, but local birds there's not much of a migration on the coast like in the central flyway. There are occasional snow geese, and the main migration for the white-fronted (speckle belly) geese is down the central valley.
I can see the stadium when duck hunting in the distance, and see the Google buildings in the other direction. A man's gotta do what a man's gotta do to shoot ducks!
For a little history, there is the remains of an old bunch of buildings in an area about a mile north of there called Drawbridge, it's on a map. It was built in the 1870s when the first train tracks ran through the marshes. In the 1890s, there was a 4am train that ran to there from San Jose for duck hunters. There were a bunch of duck hunting shacks, a whiskey bar and supposedly a brothel since the Sheriff didn't want to bother going into the marshes- or maybe he did? This building was the brothel.
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