There’s more parking at Emory Cove/Bayshore Bikeway Parking Lot, (32.602394 -117.124126) now (11:40). You can walk out the levee to the east and look south into Pond 11. HOWEVER, the WWTE was not discernible among the other sitting terns when I left a few minutes ago. When flying, one can pick it out by the Black Tern-like flight pattern.
-Gjon
On Jul 20, 2025, at 10:41 AM, Matt Sadowski via groups.io <sadowskimatt99...> wrote:
On Sun, Jul 20, 2025, 10:33 AM Matt Sadowski via groups.io<http://groups.io> <sadowskimatt99...><mailto:<gmail.com...>> wrote:
The tern is still foraging in pond 11, S of Emory Cove as of 1033.
Sadowski
On Sun, Jul 20, 2025, 7:52 AM <lehman.paul...><mailto:<lehman.paul...> via groups.io<http://groups.io> <lehman.paul...><mailto:<verizon.net...>> wrote:
Arrived Sunday at the end of J Street at around 7:25 a.m. and immediately saw the White-winged tern. A bit to the right or northwest of the submerged oyster balls. And actually doing a fair amount of feeding in the water up against the marsh vegetation as well as sitting on what little bit of exposed mud there is. The tide is quite a bit higher than it's been the last few mornings.
Before departing on yesterday's pelagic trip, I talked with Captain Brian of the New Seaforth fishing boat and he showed me video that he and his crew had taken of a young Magnificent Frigatebird circling around their boat a mile off Point Loma this past Wednesday. They even flung bait fish at it which it grabbed out of the air.
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