Stevens Creek Shoreline Nature Study Area is a birder’s paradise. At this 55-acre bayfront preserve, located adjacent to Mountain View’s Shoreline Park, visitors can view a wide variety of waterfowl and shorebirds, including black-necked stilts, mallards, snowy and great egrets, great blue herons, cormorants, and pintails. Bring your binoculars!
The marshland vegetation at this preserve provides protected habitat for the endangered Ridgway’s rail and salt marsh harvest mouse.
Stevens Creek Shoreline Nature Area is accessible from the San Francisco Bay Trail, a planned 500-mile walking and cycling path around the entire San Francisco Bay, through all nine Bay Area counties
Construction of the salt-evaporation ponds to the north removed this area of the marsh from tidal action. There is no indication that this specific property was used for salt production, but it may have been used for hunting and grazing. Midpen used a matching grant to acquire this property from the Peninsula Open Space Trust (POST), which received it as a gift from Leslie Salt Company.
