During our frequent travels to San Francisco and the Bay Area, we passed the Yolo Bypass Wildlife Area many times without paying attention to anything except heavy traffic and the chronic rebuilding of Route 80 in this area.

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On November 4th, we joined the Bird Group for an outing to this wildlife refuge, also called the Vic Fazio Yolo Wildlife Area. Paul MacGarvey, our Bird-Group lead, handed out walkie-talkies for each car and directed our attention to many species we wouldn’t have normally noticed. During the 3-hour loop around harvested rice fields and wetlands, we saw dozens of varieties of waterfowl, migratory birds, and raptors.

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