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.
Common Gallinule - lots of these in the first pond, Las Gallinas Valley Sanitary District
Another view of the common gallinule - previously named the common moorhen - related to coots!
Male common merganser - there were several pairs of these in the second pond.
Female common merganser, Las Gallinas Valley Sanitary District
Marsh wren singing from a high perch in the bordering shrubs.
Best photo I could get of a much pursued common yellowthroat.
A group of black-crowned night herons were roosting among the reeds.
Muskrat? Munching on something among the reeds in the first pond.
Lots of cinnamon teals in the ponds, Las Gallinas Valley Sanitary District
Flocks of cackling geese fly frequently overhead.
Forster's terns were diving and skimming pond two for small fish fingerlings.
The graceful Forster's Tern
A juvenile Cooper's hawk on a utility pole side arm, Las Gallinas
A juvenile red-tailed hawk eating a snake, at the end of the day as the sun was setting, Las Gallinas Valley SD