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A Visit to the Las Gallinas Valley Sanitary District

2/13/2017

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Similar to the Ellis Creek Facility in Petaluma, this waste water facility is in San Rafael, and has a series of really beautiful holding ponds where ducks, herons, geese and birds and critters of all types abound.
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Common Gallinule - lots of these in the first pond, Las Gallinas Valley Sanitary District
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Another view of the common gallinule - previously named the common moorhen - related to coots!
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Male common merganser - there were several pairs of these in the second pond.
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Female common merganser, Las Gallinas Valley Sanitary District
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Marsh wren singing from a high perch in the bordering shrubs.
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Best photo I could get of a much pursued common yellowthroat.
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A group of black-crowned night herons were roosting among the reeds.
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Muskrat? Munching on something among the reeds in the first pond.
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Lots of cinnamon teals in the ponds, Las Gallinas Valley Sanitary District
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Flocks of cackling geese fly frequently overhead.
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Forster's terns were diving and skimming pond two for small fish fingerlings.
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The graceful Forster's Tern
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A juvenile Cooper's hawk on a utility pole side arm, Las Gallinas
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A juvenile red-tailed hawk eating a snake, at the end of the day as the sun was setting, Las Gallinas Valley SD
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Anne
2/15/2017 06:34:34 am

That Cooper's hawk looks like he/she got a high voltage shock! Great shots, all of them.

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Laura Munter
2/21/2017 07:32:36 pm

Great! I love seeing the wren and the shot of the yellow bird (can't remember the name). is great. Really love looking at your photos--they are some of the best I see--love the one of the tern diving--perfect of the high voltage hawk!

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andrea
3/17/2017 01:24:06 pm

Exquisite photos of the Forsters. (sp?) also loved Cooper Hawk of course and the merganser

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