Mount Hamilton News

Big Basin Redwoods: Sunset Camp is perched on a wooded terrace above Berry Creek Canyon and it series of sensational waterfalls.

Bird ID: The Illustrated Guide to Common Animals of the East Bay hills, an outstanding, color, plasticized identification guide for birds and wildlife in the Bay Area, and folds to brochure-size. For newcomers to identify birds, better than a book loaded with species from the East Coast.

Rattlesnake Sex: Department of Fish and Game, dfg.ca.gov; East Bay Regional Park District, 327-2757, ebparks.org How to get to Mount Hamilton: From San Francisco, take U.S. 101 south for 50 miles to San Jose and exit 382 for Yerba Buena Road.

The Diablo Mountains, east of San Jose, Calif., offer some of the best and most spectacular driving roads in Northern California.

Greetings, fellow SkyWatchers! Despite the Moon, it will be a great week as the month of April opens with two meteor showers.