A handful of publicly accessible places to go looking — what you're likely to see, when it's liveliest, and a few standouts, drawn from what residents and naturalists have actually observed and photographed here.
Tap a marker to jump to that spot. Shaded areas show roughly where each spot's sightings were counted.
Why these three — and how to read the numbers. "Hot" here means well-recorded, and the most-recorded places are also the easiest to reach. Sausal Pond, for instance, sits right at the Windy Hill parking lot, so its tally reflects how many people walk past as much as what lives there. Take this as a guide to rewarding places to go looking, not a ranking of where wildlife is densest — a pond, a ridgeline, and a wooded creek each offer something genuinely different, which is why all three are here.
Headed out to one of these?
Whatever you notice — a bird, a bloom, a beetle — snap a photo and log it on iNaturalist. It's how this map grows, and you don't need to know what you found; the community helps with the rest.