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Tuesday, January 3, 2006
Last week, a friend from Los Angeles came to Phoenix and showed me the Tres Rios - Hay Field Site, an artificial riparian habitat created to efficiently use and discharge wastewater from Phoenix surrounding cities. The $630,000 federal project includes the Army Corps of Engineers, the EPA, the USGS, BLM and other agencies is now managed by a consortium of Phoenix, Scottsdale, Tempe, Mesa and Glendale. The project attempts to recreate the naturally occuring habitat at the confluence of the Salt, Gila and Agua Fria rivers on the southwestern edge of Phoenix. I took some bird pictures there.
A Green Heron hiding among the reeds:
A Great Blue Heron landing on it's observation platform:
A Black Crowned Night Heron, blurry, but I shot him anyway... :wink:
A Snowy Egret on a small clump in the middle of the pond (scarey reed induced bokey, eh?):
Another shot of a Green Heron, with sparkley water plants in the background:
A Cormorant - I never would have expected to find these in Arizona:
Eric the Desert Rat::
And one the Green Heron where Eric let me hook up to his 200-200mm f/4 telephoto zoom:
Oh yeah, I'm going back to the project this winter while mosquito levels are low.
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