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Wild Turkeys at Coyote Hills East Bay Regional Park
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Here's how to see wild turkeys in the Bay area. Drive past Facebook headquarters in Menlo Park on to the Dumbarton Bay bridge ($6 toll!). Enjoy the mud flats and salt evaporation ponds on the way to Fremont. As you exit the bridge, take a right to the Coyote Hills regional park. Opened in 1968, it is 1,274 acres of rolling hills, marshes, and SF Bay views. You can park free outside and hike in a couple miles or you can drive to the Visitor's Center and pay the parking fee. Unless you are visiting on January 25, 2020 at about 3 p.m., when you are told that someone has made off with the parking meter that very morning, and the parking guard is gone. (Your fee may vary.) Look around the visitor's center and learn about the Tuibun tribe that lived there 2,400 years ago. Stroll the nectar garden, then take a walk toward the Bay. And then, if you are lucky, a rafter of turkeys will run past you. A dozen big wild turkeys. You have to see it to believe it.
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Steven looking out toward SF Bay and the salt evaporation ponds built in the mid 19th C
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Coyote Hills also has an extensive marsh, with lots of trails. We went on the Muskrat Trail, where we did in fact, see a muskrat.
