I saw two American Avocets at the Desert Wildlife Area off Dodson Road on
April 1. Spent two days in and around the Potholes and saw nary a crane or
stilt though. Sigh....

At 06:44 PM 4/5/97 -0800, Denny Granstrand wrote:

>Northwest for Black-necked Stilt is April 5 and for Dunlin also April 5 but
>with isolated records before April 5. I was surprised that we didn't see
>any American Avocet inspite of migration records being much earlier than for
>the stilts.
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