[SBB] Downy chicks on the Bay

[Mark Bohrer <[[email protected]]>]

Spring brings a new crop of downy young birds pacing the sloughs in Palo 
Alto Baylands Nature Preserve on San Francisco Bay. Spindly-legged 
black-necked stilts fight each other for dominance and sometimes with 
American avocets that share the territory. Both species care for their 
precocial young between power towers sprouting up from the pickleweed in 
the Harriet Mundy Marsh. The avocets hatched and fledged before the stilts 
this year, but young stilts are still active:
http://tinyurl.com/b6wns

And I have fresh proof of aliens at Palo Alto Baylands:
http://tinyurl.com/a8wlt
http://tinyurl.com/cn7j7

(More stilt chicks shaking the water off and getting sideways.)

All comments welcome.

Mark Bohrer
Mountain and Desert Photography
www.mountain-and-desert.com
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