Ellis Creek Water Recycling and Wildlife Sanctuary
Petaluma, California
Leader: Chuck Groff
This is a new location for us. It's a water recycling facility
in Petaluma that supports an excellent wildlife sanctuary.
There's a large parking lot, bathrooms, gravelled trails, and
a well planned layout with ponds, marshes, trees, and
woodland, and it borders an urban area so the birding is
excellent. Our group was small, only five people, and the
rain was heavy as we drove to the site. But once there it
cleared up for half an hour and we had a great walk with
lots of birds.
Two Mute Swans paddled around one large pond
accompanied by Cinnamon Teal and our trip highlight, a
pair of Blue-winged Teal. The rain started up again so we
headed back to the car, otherwise there was enough there to
keep us much longer. There were lots of birds, no mud on
the trails, and the visibility was excellent in the marsh and
woodlands. All in all, we thought it was a great trip even
with the rain. We had only a half-hour or so for birding, but
still identified a good number of birds.
You can read more about this location at:
http://petalumawetlands.org/HTML/elliscreek.html
Total Species: 24
American Coot
American Crow
American Goldfinch
Black Phoebe
Blue-winged Teal
Bufflehead
Canada Goose
Cinnamon Teal
Gadwall
Golden-crowned Sparrow
Great Egret
Killdeer
Lesser Scaup
Mallard
Marsh Wren
Mute Swan
Northern Shoveler
Pied-billed Grebe
Red-winged Blackbird
Song Sparrow
Turkey Vulture
Violet-green Swallow
White-crowned Sparrow
Yellow-rumped Warbler
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Cinnamon Teal
Mute Swan and Blue-winged Teal
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