You can walk for miles on the old levees that were built to create the salt ponds and grazing land for livestock. They are slowly being opened up as part of a plan to re-create the historic and important marshes. 
Natural looking marsh above compared to the salt pond below.
This "dead forest" was caused by the super salty water killing the trees. If you look closely, you can see something hanging from a branch. Through the binoculars, below, you can see it is a dead cormorant that had fishing line hooked on it which became caught on the tree. We get birds with fishing line injuries all the time at IBRRC.
The salt ponds are at least a half mile across. That is Mt. Tamalpais in the background.
You can see a flock of coots on the water. I'm going to have to splurge for a camera with telephoto lens some day soon.
Among the ducks are four tundra swans in this picture.
The tundra swans taking off with duck escort. Well, I will be back again. The breeding season is about to begin soon. Some of the other birds I saw today were American avocets, Clark's grebes, an American kestrel, black necked stilts, snowy egrets, great egrets, killdeer, and various hawks.
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Wish I could have been along!
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