Lake Solano Regional Park

The Lake Solano is a Solano County Regional Park and is located along Pleasants Valley Road west of Winters just South of Highway 128. The park includes riparian habitat along Putah Creek and Oak Woodlands and open grassland as you travel further away from the creek. Lake Solano Park includes paved and narrow dirt trails paralleling the course of Putah Creek as it makes its way to Lake Berryessa. Prime riparian habitat is found here as well as in adjacent foothill grasslands, leading to an interesting mix of species.

Common Residents and Breeding Birds:
Canada Goose, Mallard, Gadwall, Wood Duck and Common Merganser are found on the river. Domesticated Peacock, Anna’s Hummingbird, Acorn, Nuttall’s and Downy Woodpeckers, Great Blue Heron, Great Egret, Marsh Wren, Cliff and Tree Swallows, Pacific-Slope Flycatcher, Phainopepla. Song Sparrow, Spotted Towhee, Wilson’s and Orange-Crowned Warblers, Bullock’s Oriole, and Black-Headed Grosbeak are commonly found along the river edges and in the Oak Woodlands in the park. In some years, Lewis’s Woodpeckers breed along the creek and are seen perched in trees along the river’s edge. On occasion one can hear Western Screech and Great Horned Owls calling at night.

Migrants: Fall Migration brings a variety of ducks to Putah Creek including Common and Barrow’s Goldeneyes, Hooded Mergansers, Bufflehead, Ruddy, Ring-necked and Scaup Ducks, and an assortment of Western passerines including Western Wood-PeWee and Willow Flycatchers, Black-throated Gray, Nashville, MacGillivray’s, Yellow and Yellow-rump Warblers. You can occasionally spot a Say’s Phoebe feeding in the lawns and coyote brush and White-crowned, Golden-crowned, Lincoln’s and Fox Sparrows overwinter along the trail and in brushy areas.