Sunnyvale Water Treatment Plant Photo Gallery by Barry Langdon-Lassagne at pbase.com

Sunnyvale Water Treatment Plant

Sunnyvale, CA, USA
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The sloughs and salt ponds behind the Sunnyvale Water Treatment Plant are great for birding, especially in the winter.

House Finch	Belted Kingfisher	Double-crested Cormorant	Common Moorhen and American Coot
Marsh Wren	Northern Harrier	Turtle (Western Pond?)	Common Yellowthroat
Pied-billed Grebe	Song Sparrow	American Pipit	Common Goldeneye
American Pipit w/heatwaves	American Pipit	Gadwall	Killdeer flying
Herring Gull landing	Herring Gull with Ring-billed Gull	Killdeer flying	Brown-headed Cowbird
Song Sparrow	House Finches on mustard	House Finch on anise	Pied-billed Grebes
Ring-billed Gull	Red-winged Blackbird (female)	Snowy Egret flying	Bonaparte's Gulls
Bonaparte's Gull	Great Egret and Great Blue Heron	Northern Mockingbird	Bonaparte's Gull
Bonaparte's Gulls in flight	Green Heron	Lincoln's Sparrow	Red-tailed Hawk
Great Egret flying	Ruddy Duck	Red-tailed Hawk	Great Egret
Golden-crowned Sparrow	Ring-billed Gull	Ring-billed Gull	Lesser Scaup
Lesser Scaup flying	Common Moorhen	American Kestrel	Scaup
Black Phoebe	Marsh Wren	White-crowned Sparrow	Scaup flying
Ring-billed Gull flying	Vaux's Swift	Vaux's Swift	Barn Swallow
Red-tailed Hawk	European Starling	Anna's Hummingbird	Song Sparrow
Common Moorhen	Rock Pigeon	Barn Swallows, Northern Rough-winged Swallows and House Finches	Northern Rough-winged Swallows
Golden-crowned Sparrow	Ruddy Duck	Snowy Egret	Great Egret
Forster's Terns in flight	Bonaparte's Gull	American Robin	Double-crested Cormorant
Northern Harrier	Pied-billed Grebe	Snowy Egret	Forster's Tern
Peregrine Falcon	Double-crested Cormorant	Common Yellowthroat (female)	Northern Flicker
White-tailed Kites	Eared Grebe	Northern Harrier	White-throated Swift
Northern Shovelers in flight	American Kestrel	American Kestrel	Song Sparrow
Ruddy Duck	Mallard pair	House Finches	Mallards, Cinnamon Teal, Ruddy Duck
Dowitcher	Rock Pigeon	Loggerhead Shrike	White-crowned Sparrow
IMG_0546.jpg	IMG_0537.jpg	Golden-crowned Sparrow	White-crowned Sparrow
Snowy Egret	Lesser Goldfinch

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Julio Mulero		13-May-2008 04:01
Wow! I have been to the SWTP many times and have only seen about a quarter of the birds that you have photographed. Good eye!

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