East County
Westgate Landing Park
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Description of the Area
This is a small county park with camp sites and picnic tables below the levee. There are plenty of trees around the campsites. The park has modern restrooms. Above the levee is small cove that has docks for houseboats and other boats. To the north of the camp ground is farmland. There is a fee for both day use and camping (cash only).
How to Get There
From Highway 5 at Flag City take Highway 12 west to Glasscock Rd. Turn right on Glasscock Rd & take it all the way to Westgate landing. The road ends at Westgate Landing. Caution: this can be very rough road with a lot of pot holes, depending on maintenance, so drive slowly!
Target Birds
Year-round: Red-shouldered, Red-tailed and Cooper’s hawks, Osprey, American Robin, Northern Mockingbird, Mourning Dove, California Quail, Canada Goose, Mallard, Belted Kingfisher, and Brewer’s and Red-winged blackbirds, Double-crested Cormorant.
Summer: Tree, Barn, Cliff, and Northern Rough-winged swallows, Black-headed and Blue grosbeaks, Bullock’s Oriole, Western Kingbird, Forster’s and Caspian terns.
Winter: Sandhill Crane, Tundra Swan, Fox, Lincoln’s, Savannah, White- and Golden-crowned sparrows, Snow, Ross’s, Greater White-fronted geese, wintering ducks, Ruby-crowned Kinglet, Orange-crowned and Yellow-rumped warblers, White-faced Ibis.
Migrants: Warbling Vireo, Western Tanager, Violet-green Swallow, Wilson’s, Black-throated Gray, and Yellow warblers.
Rarities: Western and Clark’s grebes, American White Pelican. There was a very handsome intergrade Baltimore/Bullock’s hybrid here for two springs. (Such hybridization is not uncommon where the two species’ ranges overlap.)
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Birding At the Site
Check the fence along the farmland for winter-resident sparrows, Red-winged Blackbirds. Check the trees & area around the campsites for nesting birds in the spring. Walk along the levee checking for nesting swallows in the spring.
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