Hans, et al,

I contacted WDFW and USFW on several occasions to report that the Port's security vehicles were witnessed/videotaped driving into flock of terns that were on the ground outside the silt fences, where they probably considered laying a few eggs.
I cited the Migratory Bird Treaty Act, etc., but neither agency apparently wanted anything to do with this obviously "too hot" political football.
I reminded them that individuals have been fined for driving through the shorebird flocks on the coast, but I was told the issue here had more to do with private property and their "hands were tied." It's a tattered web that has been woven here between the City of B'ham and the Port.

As the summer nesting/breeding season draws to an end, there has been NO/ZERO activity on the site where the terns would have nested. To say that I'm p***ed would be a major understatement.

Joe Meche
Bellingham






-----Original Message-----
From: Hans-Joachim Feddern <thefedderns at gmail.com>
To: Mechejmch <mechejmch at aol.com>
Sent: Sat, Sep 3, 2011 10:17 pm
Subject: Re: [Tweeters] Re: A Tern for the worst


Too bad you could not get US Fish & Wildlife on their case.... I feel privileged to have seen the colony last year!

Hans


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