photo by Greg Hofmann

2/2/2004: It's interesting to track the different species of birds that make use of various parts of the slough through the year. In the shallows of the Strawberry Lagoon area (at Elkhorn and Strawberry Roads), several weeks ago it was mostly Black-necked Stilts. For the last couple of weeks it's been almost entirely a group of American Avocets (Recurvirostra americana). Five months ago it was Red-necked Phalaropes. Always something new in the slough.