A former naval air station now stitched with constructed ponds and thickets, which turns out to be exactly what migrating sparrows and warblers want. Loud with song in May and pleasantly empty on winter mornings.
Peak migration — warblers and tanagers in the thickets.
Martins over the ponds, swallows over the meadow.
Sparrows flood the shrub-steppe plantings.
Open grass draws shrikes and hunting raptors.
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