The Golden Gate Audubon Society has tips for birding Martin Luther King Jr. Regional Shoreline.

Year-round: Marsh Wren, Ridgway’s Rail, Sora, Virginia Rail

Summer: Barn Swallow, Black-necked Stilt, Forster’s Tern, Willet

Winter: Common Goldeneye, Greater and Lesser Scaup, Horned Grebe, Surf Scoter, plus many other ducks and shorebirds

More than 200 avian species have been reported on eBird from MLK Shoreline. For birders, the primary attraction here is often the 50-acre Arrowhead Marsh, the park’s centerpiece and a central location for many Golden Gate Audubon Society activities, from Eco-Education school outings and adult field trips to long-term restoration efforts.

Martin Luther King Jr. Regional Shoreline, next to the commercial bustle of Oakland International Airport, is a 748-acre park leased from the Port of Oakland, protecting the remainder of a once extensive marshland at San Leandro Bay

At the intersection of Doolittle Drive and Swan Way is the Martin Luther King Jr. Memorial Grove, completed with community support and dedicated in 1993. The grove consists of a group of trees surrounding a grassy glade. There is also a brick wall inscribed with donors' names.

The 50-acre Arrowhead Marsh is a stopover on the Pacific Flyway and is part of the Western Hemisphere Shorebird Reserve Network--dogs must be on-leash at all times.

Roger Berry's sculpture "Duplex Cone" traces the sun's summer and winter solstice paths through the sky.

Another part of San Leandro Bay is accessible from a parking lot at the north end of Edgewater Drive. Garretson Point is named in honor of the late Fred Garretson, a Tribune reporter whose stories inspired successful efforts at bayland preservation. Access to Damon Marsh is from Oakport Drive in Oakland.