
I love my morning photo walks at Radke Martinez Regional Shoreline Park. Located just off the Carquinez Strait, it is a hidden gem in the vast system of waterways in the California Delta. So many birds. So many stories to share with my camera... enjoy!

Great Blue Heron chases a Snowy Egret off it's perch on the remnants of the Schooner Forrester

Song Sparrow perched on a hollowed out pylon on the Pickleweed Trail

Oh, deer... Mule Deer on the Pickleweed Trail. Always a nice surprise

Canada Goose flaps its wings at the Bill Nichols Pond. Spring is right around the corner

Red-tailed Hawk taking an early morning dip in a puddle on the freshly watered grass

A horse, of course... this beauty got away from the stables and started running along the trails

Least Sandpiper feeding in the mudflats at low tide on the Carquinez Shoreline. The Least Sandpipers are the smallest of the shorebirds and can be identified by the yellow legs, brown upper parts and white lower parts.
Black-crowned Night Heron waiting patiently for fish at the locks leading to the duck pond at Radke Martinez Regional Shoreline Park. These stocky little birds are most active at night or at dusk and can be identified by their gray/black plumage and long white head plumes. They live in fresh, salt and brackish wetlands and are the most common heron throughout the world.
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Martinez Regional Shoreline, Martinez Regional Shoreline Park, Martinez, California 94553, United States
