Fleming Point

[6] However, prior to foreign settlement, this area was occupied by the Native American tribe, Ohlone, who harvested and hunted shellfish.

By the first decade of the 20th century, it was used by residents of Berkeley as a garbage dump, one of the reasons the City of Albany decided to incorporate in 1908.

Some lenses are fifteen to twenty feet long and a foot or so thick in the central part.

[3] The Albany mudflats located near Fleming Point consist of a narrow band of salt, marsh, pickle-weed, and cordgrass vegetation that feeds shorebirds, ducks, geese, and other large aquatic birds.

[10] Some common birds that are found within the Albany Waterfront are Western Sandpipers, American Wigeons, and Foresters tern.