Oasis inside water

Slough adjacent to the salt ponds and marshes of Don Edwards Refuge has a periodic uptick in Halobacterium and microscopic algae that thrives in briny water. As the salt level goes up, they get stressed and produce this red color.

 

The bird picking it's meal at the confluence of blue and the pink salty water makes for a very mesmeric and hypnotic scene.

 

I did capture a few. Here is one more from the archive.

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