Mayhew 1949 June 26 Black-necked Stilt 2. Conaway Ranch, 2 miles east of Woodland, Yolo Co., Calif. other one crouched down again right at my feet & stayed there. He was still crouching there when I reached the car, as I could still see him with binoculars. All this time the parents were flying in circles around me, occasionally landing & acting as though a wing were broken. They were still raising a rumpus after I climbed back into the car. The young had black bills that were longer than the head, flesh colored long legs, tawny bodies with black spots on the wings & back. I found one nest on fairly dry ground that contained 2 eggs. Two other nests each contained 4 eggs. They were also built on rather dry ground, but all of them were on little islands in the middle of the large drainage ditch. The birds flushed from the nests long before I reached any of them. As soon as I stopped the car, in one case, she was off the nest & wading away from it. They seem to leave the nest at the slightest provocation. June 28 About 3:30 P.M. a flock of 205 stilts were seen along the main canal. About 38 were in one small area, all facing exactly the same direction. The rest were