Date: 8/13/25 9:31 pm From: Lisa Parker via groups.io <lisap2102...> Subject: Re: [SanDiegoRegionBirding] White-winged Tern more new behavior/location
Our mother, Carol Parker, has passed. We have a huge assortment of bird
books. Does anyone have a recommendation as to who we can donate these
to?
Lisa and Julie Parker.
On Mon, Aug 11, 2025, 7:27 AM <lehman.paul...> via groups.io
<lehman.paul...> wrote:
> On Monday morning, the White winged Tern was not off the end of J Street
> at dawn for the first 20 or more minutes of light, as it has been in the
> past, even when it shifts soon thereafter over to Pond 11 to the southwest.
> Problem now at the J Street site is that the Forsters terns have pretty
> much all fledged and moved away and so it has none to only a couple
> Forsters Tern buddies to hang out with anymore if that was indeed an
> attraction originally. So we came over to the dike on the north side of
> pond 11 and walked out to literally the end of the dike and found the bird
> sitting on a piece of upright debris sticking out of the main part of San
> Diego Bay in line with the end of the dike looking northeast to the new
> Gaylord Pacific convention center monstrosity building. A new location for
> the bird to be perched. The tide was very low but it's now coming in and
> the bird will be forced off that perch in just a few more minutes and
> presumably at that point will go into the pond 11 area. While preening this
> morning I did see it remove a couple older flight feathers, so it does seem
> to be in molt again.
>
>
> Paul Lehman, San Diego
>
>
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