Between 5 and 5:30 Sunday afternoon, there were 50+ Elegant Terns out
there. I don't have a tide chart handy; that was maybe an hour or two after
high tide?

Rob Saecker
Olympia

>Saw just one Elegant Tern on Sunday among a roosting band of about 50
>Caspian Terns about 4 hours before high tide at a sand spit east of the
>Ocean Shores sewage lagoon in the game range.
>
>But I ran into Ruth Sullivan who said she counted 156 Elegants on Saturday
>in the same place at high tide. So I would suggest that if you are coming to
>see these birds plan accordingly.
>DJ Beatty