Arts
- Simply the best of Lodi
- Star watch: Enjoy a movie in style
- Lo (ho, ho, ha, ha) di
- Rhythm of the night
- A season for a festival
- Keeping it cool: Jazz scene popular in Lodi
Food
- Much more than secret sauce
- Edible, incredible Lodi offers food treats for finicky feasters
- List of area restaurants
Recreation
- Take off!
- Par for the course
- Mokelumne River more than Lodi's northern border
- Fun in them there hills
- Nearby nature: Spend a day exploring Lodi Lake
- Outstanding ornithology: Birds just love Lodi
Shopping
- L.O.D.I. spells hidden treasure in antiques
- Dollars and sense: There are plenty of places to shop in Lodi and the surrounding area
- Chocolate lovers rejoice!
- Find the perfect ‘Lodi' gift
Things To Do
- Perfect day includes walking, eating, playing
- Time alone or with family can be perfect
- Lodi's past comes alive
- Museum reveals Lodi's ag roots
- Move over Wonka
- In all directions, fun is a stone's throw from Lodi
- Discover: The big list
Wine
Outstanding ornithology: Birds just love Lodi
The city's motto — Livable Lovable Lodi — includes more than the community's people, city lake and wine. Our fine-feathered friends also make Lodi a significant destination.
Instead of watching Sylvester continually chase Tweety Bird on TV, look into the sky and you'll see birds, birds everywhere (but they won't attack you as they did in the Alfred Hitchcock classic).
The most well-known, the Sandhill crane, comes to town in the late fall and winter. They're so popular that Lodi has a popular festival in early November each year.
But the Lodi area has a lot more than Sandhill cranes. You might want to look for sparrow, wrens, songbirds, shorebirds, swallows, bald eagles, pheasants, rails, coots, gulls, terns, jays, titmice, hummingbirds, owls, doves, geese, ducks, kingfishers and the Swainson's hawk.
They can be found at Lodi Lake, Woodbridge Wilderness Area, the Isenberg Crane Preserve on Woodbridge Road west of Interstate 5, the Cosumnes River Preserve near Galt and Thornton, and at White Slough at the city of Lodi's sewer plant near I-5 and Highway 12.
If it's bald and golden eagles that strike your fancy, go to Camanche Reservoir, east of Clements off Highway 88 in Amador and Calaveras counties.
The best birdwatching locations are:
- Cosumnes River Preserve, Franklin Boulevard, east of the Twin Cities Road exit off I-5, just north of Thornton.
- Lodi Lake, Turner Road in northwest Lodi, just east of Lower Sacramento Road.
- Woodbridge Wilderness Area, Meadowlark Drive off Woodbridge Road.
- Isenberg Crane Preserve, 2.4 miles west of I-5 on Woodbridge Road.
- White Slough, Thornton Road southeast of the I-5-Highway 12 interchange.
It's 1.3 miles south on Thornton Road from Highway 12.
For more information, call the Cosumnes River Preserve at (916) 683-1700 or check the Web site, http://www.cosumnes.org/birdlist.htm. Also check the San Joaquin County Audubon Society's Web site, http://www.sanjoaquinaudubon.org/#birdsightings.
Contact reporter Ross Farrow at rossf@lodinews.com.