Subject: Jetty Island, July 12
Date: Jul 12 13:10:40 2001
From: Eugene Hunn - enhunn at Home.com


Tweets,

George Gerdts and I took the free ferry from Everett harbor to Jetty Island
(along with hordes of kids and an E. Lake Washington Audubon group). The
ferry runs about every half-hour from 10 AM Mondays through Saturdays. We
had good luck. One adult alternate plumaged ARCTIC TERN on the beach with 14
BONAPARTE'S GULLS northward at the lagoon area; three SEMIPALMATED
SANDPIPERS with ca. 100 WESTERN SANDPIPERS, 3 LEAST SANDPIPERS, and 10
SEMIPALMATED PLOVERS in the lagoon. On the outer beach south of the ferry
dock were 100 or so gulls and terns loafing, including three hatching year
COMMON TERNS and a first summer LITTLE GULL, which we suspect might be the
same immature bird that was seen last fall at the Everett sewage ponds and
Point No Point. Maybe 50 CASPIAN TERNS total including one freshly fledged
juvenile on the south beach also. We saw four PURPLE MARTINS over their
nesting sites on the pilings north of the ferry dock and several occupied
OSPREY nests.

Gene Hunn
enhunn at home.com