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Mute Swan goslings, Ellis Creek Water Treatment Plant

5/21/2016

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Mute swan goslings, Ellis Creek Water Treatment, Petaluma
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Very close to the walking trail!
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Mom swan checking on her brood
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Reeds were full of Marsh wrens making their siren calls
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Red house finch eating grass seeds, Ellis Creek
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Active tree swallow nest, Ellis Creek
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Tree swallow removing poop from the nest, Ellis Creek
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White Pelican zooms over the facility, Ellis Creek
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Some surrounding fields thick with blooming mustard grass, Ellis Creek
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Canada geese goslings - had to wait for the whole family to move before I could proceed
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Slightly older Canada geese gosling - crossing last because it kept trying to remove the burrs in its downy feathers from where it had been laying in the grass
Explored another well known birding spot in Healdsburg that I hadn't been to before, Pine Flat Road
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Brown creeper, Pine Flat Rd, Healdsburg
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Acorn woodpecker with a bug, Pine Flat rd.
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Incredible wildflowers on this rd, this is a Red ribbon clarkia
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Black Phoebe with a bug, on the back of a traffic sign along Pine Flat Rd., Healdsburg
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Red thistle, Pine Flat Rd
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Coast Lotus, growing near a stream
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Huge bushes California Lilac, Pine Flat Rd, Healdsburg
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Small male Anna's hummer holding his own, Pine Flat Rd
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Perhaps another Clarkia
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These wildflowers known as Chinese Houses, Pine Flat Rd.
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Ash-throated flycatcher, near the top of the road
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Surprised a male Kingfisher at a small pond on the way back down the road
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Kingfisher in flight, Pine Flat Rd, Healdsburg
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Last but not least, another eye-popping wildflower, Pine Flat Road
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