We checked the nesting Black-necked Stilts at the Herman water treatment ponds
today. The heavy rains in that area have brought the water line right up to
the nest. Hopefully the rains will stop and the birds will be successful and
not flooded out. From what we read this species getting
Awesome news!
Really cool that the people working for the city are excited and are willing to
go out of their way to help.
Some days it can seem like just about nobody cares about wildlife or the
environment, but I've noticed that just about everyone gets excited when
something rare happens
According to Roberts (publication date 1932), the black-necked stilt is not
known to have nested in the state.
Interestingly, he notes that Canada Geese have just about vanished as
breeding birds, and also A number of Wild Turkeys were liberated in
various places in the state a few years ago, but
The Black-necked Stilts at the Herman (Grant County) sewage ponds are nesting.
We visited the area today and observed nesting behavior by what seems to be the
female and were able to obtain permission from the city to walk into the ponds
to photograph a single egg on a small nest depression
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