Free evening picnic, hike and birding event
Published in the July 9-23, 2014 issue of Morgan Hill Life
By Staff Report
Discover Coyote Valley Initiative is hosting an evening picnic, hike and birding event from 4 to 8 p.m. July 12 at the Coyote Valley Open Space Preserve, 550 Palm Ave., San Jose. The event is free and open to the public.
The event focuses on birds and nature in the Coyote Valley. The program starts with the Wildlife and Rehabilitation Center hosting a meet and greet with their birds of prey: rescued and rehabilitated hawks, falcons and owls, even a confused woodpecker. Then, a docent from the Open Space Authority will take visitors on a hike around the Authority’s Open Space Preserve (a new nature preserve not yet open to the public) to observe birds in the wild. The evening concludes with a community picnic, kid-friendly activities and presentations to learn more about nature, agriculture and recreation in the Coyote Valley.
To sign up, visit www.discovercoyotevalley.org/july-12-event. For more information, email [email protected].
The Santa Clara Open Space Authority, Committee for Green Foothills and WERC, an organization that provides rehabilitation services for orphaned, injured and sick native wildlife, are partners.
The Coyote Valley is an area of 7,400 acres, most of it farmland, located between San Jose and Morgan Hill in the Santa Clara Valley.
Famous for much of the last century for its orchards of prunes, pears, apricots and cherries — fruit that fed the country, the Coyote Valley is a treasure ready for rediscovery. Visitors can enjoy agriculture, recreation, and nature in the Coyote Valley year-round.
Discover Coyote Valley is an initiative of a broader project, Revitalizing Specialty Crop Agriculture in the Valley of the Heart’s Delight: a Model for Linked Urban-Rural Sustainability. The Revitalizing Specialty Crop Agriculture project is funded by the California Department of Food and Agriculture Specialty Crop Block Grant program. The project is managed by Sustainable Agriculture Education and is guided by the Coyote Valley Agricultural Enterprise and Conservation program Advisory Committee.
