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Subject: Re: Caspian terns


> To tweeters,
>
> Caspian terns, and their begging young, have been a much looked-forward-to
> sight on the Swinomish Channel each summer that we have gone through on
our
> boat. We don't do this every year but we have been boating through here
and
> seeing these terns since the late 80's. This month we traversed the
channel
> from north to south on the 5th and 6th spending the night at La Connor.
Just
> north of the old railrod bridge, on the west side of the channel are sand
bars
> with grassy vegetation which had about 200 Caspian terns as well as
> Glaucous-winged gulls and their begging young and many, many Great blue
> herons. As it was low tide the sand flats on the east side of the channel
> were exposed and there were some terns, gulls and more herons on that side
> as well.
>
> The south part of the channel the next morning was not as productive in
the
> birding department as it was high tide and the mud flats were underwater.
> There were a few Caspian terns on an island, the usual Glaucous-winged
> gulls, some Mew gulls, 4 juvenile Bald eagles and for the first time in
our
> observations there were 4 Black oystercatchers on the jetty along the
south
> side of the channel.
>
> Fay Linger
> Poulsbo, WA
> flinger at silverlink.net
>