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Bike trail from Mountain View to Alviso/Sunnyvale

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 Bike trail from Mountain View to Alviso/Sunnyvale The 8 mile route: Start biking toward Shoreline Park along Mountain View Steven's Creek, continue on to Moffett Bay Trail, that loops behind Ames Moffett field and ends at the Sunnyvale Water Pollution Treatment plant. Next bike into the Don Edwards National Wildlife Refuge along Guadalupe slough.  Though the trail continued further after 8 miles, I decided to turn back and retraced my path back to the start - but not before capturing this short video Open skies One can truly enjoy a tranquil bike ride under wide  open  blue skies, right on the edge of the South San Francisco Bay - a place synonymous with the unending hustle and bustle of the Silicon Valley. Water birds Birders know that winter time is a good time to spot water birds including the migratory American White Pelican ( Pelecanus erythrorhynchos )   with snowy white plumage and black flight feathers (visible only when the wings are spread) ...