Ed R. Levin County Park is a 1,558 acre county park in Milpitas that combines elements of an urban park with a wilderness area open space park. I made a maiden voyage to this park with my daughter yesterday afternoon. Although the hike that we did around the perimeter of Sandy Wool Lake was appropriate for the littlest hikers, there is a lot more to explore. Indeed, there is the best of both worlds in this park: my daughter has already told me that she can't wait to come back here "when the virus is over" so that she can play on the very cool looking playground structure, and there are two trails in Ed Levin that connect into Mission Peak Regional Park for a longer hike (see here). Seems like we will definitely be heading back.
The big attraction for us was the birding. There were lots of birds, especially waterbirds. One particularly cute mallard family followed us around the lake, probably hoping that we'd feed them bread.
The weather was uncharacteristically dark and cool for so late in the spring. Indeed, it's mostly been starting to feel like summer (i.e., hot and dry) in the East Bay, but while we were driving to the park I could see that rain was falling across the Bay. I think the birds might have been particularly active because of the change in the weather. The front did move eastward, and we got rain later in the evening. Perhaps they could feel the barometric pressure dropping as the rain was moving towards us. Luckily the rain was slow moving enough that we did not get wet while we were at the park, and hopefully the rain that we got later will help the wildflowers and the greens of spring last just a little bit longer. I am not ready for spring to be over!
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