Join Jack for this walk at Novato’s Indian Valley Open Space Preserve. Our group is small, our scheduling is opportune, and our waking time is fairly early – we’re out to hear some spring bird song!
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Waterfalls of Novato
We have three waterfalls in Novato and now’s the time to see them. How many of them have you visited?
Indian Valley Bird Walk
Join Jack for this walk at Novato’s Indian Valley Open Space Preserve. These mostly shaded trails on the north side of Big Rock Ridge provide homes for a wide variety of woodland songbirds. More open areas host ash-throated flycatchers, blue-gray gnatcatchers, and western bluebirds, while the more densely wooded sections contain Wilson’s warblers, pacific-slope flycatchers, and a few pileated woodpeckers.
Indian Valley Open Space Preserve
Indian Valley Open Space Preserve is a modest slice of forested foothills on the north side of Big Rock Ridge. That significant barrier to the south comprises the main topographical influence here, casting its long shadow over Indian Valley’s web of trails and modest hills. The combination of general shadiness, low hills, and intervening creeks creates ideal conditions for broadleaf mixed evergreen forest, whose high level of tree and understory diversity translates into a correspondingly rich community of bird species.