The Imperial Irrigation District is required to maintain a managed marsh complex of about 959 acres as part of a mitigation settlement related to the conveyance of irrigation water. I've found one particular road I like, between McDonald and Hazard Roads, just west of Hwy 111 and two miles south of Niland. It has significant open water and cattails and is about 5 dirt roads west of Hwy 111.
Following are birds and a muskrat I've seen there:
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| Ruddy duck |
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| Black-necked stilt |
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| Snowy egret |
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| Western sandpiper |
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| White-faced ibis |
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| Yellow-headed blackbird - female |
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| Yellow-headed blackbird - male |
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| Yellow-rumped warbler |
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| Lesser yellowlegs |
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| Tree swallow |
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| American coot |
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| Cinnamon teal |
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| Wilson's snipe |
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| Long-billed and short-billed dowitchers |
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| Pied-billed grebe |
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| Muskrat |
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| Burrowing owl |
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| Killdeer |
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| Forster's tern in breeding plumage. |
That's an amazing variety of birds, and the still water makes for perfect reflective photography.
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