March 27 (Monday): American Avocet ~10,493; Calif. Gull 2,300

Observers: Mike Prather
Email: prather@qnet.com
Remote Name: 209.221.221.178
Date: 03/30/2006
Time: 04:57 PM -0500

Sighting

Surveyed Zone 2 from 7AM to 1:30PM. Huge AMAV number in Shallow Flood Zone 2 (closed to general public). Many will stay and nest and many more will move north. CAGU numbers were high last year (over 8,000 in a given day). We'll watch them more this year. If you want to join us for the next Owens Lake International Shorebird Survey, Monday, April 3rd call Mike at 876.5807 We can put you up at our house Sunday night.