The Avocets we saw on the alternate auto tour were acting very differently from the large group pictured on the previous blog entry. They were acting the way I would expect them to act after years of photographing them. All of them we saw on the temporary auto route were paired up and feeding together,
or nesting, with a mate standing protectively nearby.
We saw several nesting beside the road, so close that I worried about the safety of their chicks when they hatched.
The only violence we saw here was an American Avocet chasing away a Black-Necked Stilt that might have been too close to its nest.
I’ll have to admit that if we didn’t live so far away, I would be there regularly to get shots of the Avocet chicks about now.