April 4, 2014

Delta Pond Rookery

In May last year I joined the docents of Laguna de Santa Rosa for a walk around the Delta Pond nesting colony. The walks begin early on a spring Saturday morning with a hike out to Santa Rosa's Delta Pond on the edge of the Laguna. With the hike circling a path between the waste-water storage pond and the laguna, and with several scopes set up directed at nests in the trees, we witnessed many types of birds including a bald eagle, dozens of double-crested cormorants, great egrets, red-tailed hawk, and great blue heron.

Red-wing blackbird

Cliff swallow

Canada geese

Tree swallow

Common merganser ducks

Red-tailed hawk

Bald eagle

Nesting double-crested cormorants and great blue heron

Double-crested cormorant

Great blue heron

It's so fun to think that some of the willows I planted a few years ago may some day become nesting habitat.

Tags

birds (27), cormorants (1), ducks (3), eagle (1), geese (3), hawk (1), heron (1), laguna (3), nesting (1), swallow (2)

Catagories

Birds (27), Santa Rosa (21)

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