hi ... to follow up here ... I arrived just as Scott was leaving and
told me "they just flew" ... I waited around for just over an hour
... at 1:10 two juveniles flew back and stayed a while on the boom
... one was still there when I left at 1:30 ...

Lyn



At 09:23 PM 9/14/2010, Scott Carpenter wrote:
>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
><<mailto:littlebirder at pacifier.com>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
><mailto:littlebirder at comcast.net>littlebirder at comcast.net
>Vancouver, WA
>
>From: <mailto:rflores_2 at msn.com>Bob Flores
>Sent: Sunday, September 12, 2010 4:02 PM
>To: <mailto:tweeters at u.washington.edu>tweeters at u.washington.edu ;
><mailto:obol at oregonbirds.org>obol
>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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