The Ellis Creek Water Recycling Facility in Petaluma has created a wetlands environment as part of its water treatment...this includes a series of small ponds, where birds are encouraged.
Mute swan at the city of Petaluma's Ellis Creek Facility
A pair of Gadwalls
Male Gadwall
Female Common Goldeneye
A red-shouldered hawk flew over
Some black-necked stilts flew from one pond to the next
Male Bufflehead
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Female Bufflehead
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A pair of Canvasback couples, male and female
Canvasback ducks
Goldfinch worked winter's dried grasses over for seeds
Song sparrows perched in the reeds
A few canadian geese were in the ponds
Lots of coots
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And also mallards
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A flock of White Pelicans passed overhead