Mare Island Shoreline Heritage Preserve

06/21/2026

Rabbits. Through the buggie windshield. Along the Mare Island San Pablo Bay Trail entry road. Kinda like the old days. Before the possibly the entire Mare Island rabbit population was killed by exposure to the almost 100% fatal Rabbit Hemorrhagic Disease News Network (V2). We lost virtually ALL of both native to this region, jackrabbits and the little cottontails you see in this and other recent posts. They are not considered native here, but obviously thrive. So, while many will say, “where are two rabbits, there will be countless”, that was not the case in the last few years. The virus is manmade in Australia, an Ebola like symptom/rapid dead and lethal to all rabbits, pikas, including house rabbits. There is a series of vaccines. But in the wild, it’s very difficult to get all of the vax administered. Welcome home, bun-buns. And, so many of our wildlife from raptors to owls to coyotes are all dependent on rabbits for meals.

06/20/2026

We’ve ventured afar from the Napa River Mare Island Strait Mare Island this evening on tge search for a potential Osprey nest. No luck although we did find the nest in a light pole at the Solano county Fairgrounds @. Thank you for the tip, Keei Eeth

06/19/2026

We are so lucky to get to sit back and just soak up these incredible Osprey photos as they continue to be shared by Chris Riley, photographer Vallejo Times-Herald

An Osprey delivers a meal of a striper to a hungry family nested on a light pole near Mare Island Studios. San Francisco Bay Osprey Days Boat Trips are Saturday, June 27, 10 a.m.-noon and 1-3 p.m. and Sunday, June 28, 2026, 11 a.m.-1 p.m.…
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06/19/2026

That moon! Always an attraction. AND a challenge to photograph. Happy to share with you tonight from the entrance gate of the Mare Island San Pablo Bay Trail.

06/19/2026

2885 have viewed this post. Have we FILLED 3 boat trips?! We really MUST FILL these boats. WHY?! Because at the price of diesel, it would be fair to the dedicated friends and owner/operators of River Dolphin, Dolphin Charters. Please, wildlands community, our Mare Island Shoreline Heritage Preserve and San Francisco Bay Osprey Days friends. To reserve, call 510-527-9622. $45 per person.

Pinning. Posting. Sharing. Please, please help me get this invitation out! We’d love to FILL these boat trips. Imagine at the cost of diesel fuel at the pump right now, if we don’t hop aboard. Dolphin Charters will be running at a loss and they’ve been sooo gracious and accommodating. Let’s register. $45 per person. Details on flyer. Call 510-527-9622.

06/18/2026

Sometimes, just ONE photo captures what you’ve spent a half hour trying to accomplish. As my friend Margaret noted in her text tonight, “the moon, Venus, Jupiter and Mercury are aligned tonight. Very likely. But, at Mare Island San Pablo Trail on this blustery as heck evening, the black horizontal cloud blocks little Mercury. And, since I took this photo it’s also gobbling up Jupiter. Good evening, my wildlands community friends.

In viewing this post, I thought, “wait, where did that Angel hovering over the moon come from? It wasn’t there earlier.” I suspect that’s my beloved brother, Rod. Coming up on 3 months since he escaped to Heaven, where he’s surely going about learning his duties as a newly minted Angel. God knows I need him and Angel Dog Nitro, right now.

06/18/2026

What a treat! When wildness just happens to set up a nest on a very historic vessel along the Mare Island Strait. Join us for one of our San Francisco Bay Osprey Days Boat trips Sat Jun 27 and Sun Jun 28 or in one of our guided car caravans discovering and viewing Osprey nest on and off Mare Island during our San Francisco Bay Osprey Days The Hercules is an historic tug boat of the San Francisco Maritime National Historical Park

06/18/2026

Willow at this pier next to the prior post. I think I’ll repost my last post. Same message of marvel in nature. Different tree. “Visiting the finger piers at the southern end of Mare Island today, with staff of the US Army Readiness Unit 63rd. A follow up site visit where the WWII historic shore power buildings 732 and 734 stood. I found this wild and very lush tree, a willow, growing right out of the concrete near the pier. Amazing where nature finds a place to call home.”

06/18/2026

Visiting the finger piers at the southern end of Mare Island today, with staff of the US Army Readiness Unit 63rd. A follow up site visit where the WWII historic shore power buildings 732 and 734 stood. I found this wild and very lush tree, maybe an elm, growing right out of the concrete near the pier. Amazing where nature finds a place to call home.