Tuesday, September 14 there were 5 COMMON TERNS in one flock at Vancouver
Lake State Park -- 4 juveniles and 1 adult. They flew in and landed on the
(plastic?) log booms at 11:30 am, and left right around noon. When I first
arrived at 11 am, I saw at least 3 terns perched on the booms from the
parking lot, but they were gone by the time I made it to the beach, so
perhaps they are alternating between hunting over the lake and resting on
the booms. Vancouver Lake had 6 GREAT EGRETS on the southeast edge.

Rufners Pond had 18 GREAT EGRETS, many GREATER YELLOWLEGS, one LESSER
YELLOWLEGS, and one very brightly colored juvenile PECTORAL SANDPIPER.

Scott Carpenter
Portland, Oregon


On Mon, Sep 13, 2010 at 9:23 AM, Sherry Hagen <littlebirder at pacifier.com>wrote:

> We saw 2 Common Terns just before 5 PM on the log last night at Vancouver
> Lake State Park. At Rutners Pond there were 24 Great Egrets, at least a
> dozen or more Greater Yellowlegs, a few Lesser Yellowleggs and one maybe two
> Pectoral Sandpipers. My husband thought he might have seen a Sharp-tailed
> Sandpiper working close the the edge of pond next to the road (there is
> grass along the edge) but we couldn't relocate the bird at all.
>
> Sherry Hagen
> littlebirder at comcast.net
> Vancouver, WA
>
> *From:* Bob Flores <rflores_2 at msn.com>
> *Sent:* Sunday, September 12, 2010 4:02 PM
> *To:* tweeters at u.washington.edu ; obol <obol at oregonbirds.org>
> *Subject:* [Tweeters] common terns Vancouver Lake, Clark Co, WA
>
> I received a call from Randy Hill he had found 3 common terns at Vancouver
> lake, Vancouver Lk State Park. They were on the floating logs along the
> shoreline. I went a few hours ago and they were still there as he reported.
>
> Bob Flores
> Ridgefield, WA
>
>
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