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Subject: [SBB] Black Skimmer (A1)
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Folks:

This morning, 6/30/2004, a pair of BLACK SKIMMERS were on the SE island in 
Salt Pond A1.  The female seemed to be incubating and the male 
mate-guarding.  In the afternoon, on my return, the Forster's Terns, Black 
Skimmers and Am. Avocets left the island 3 or 4 times (I couldn't figure 
the source of disturbance) and I looked at the nest scrape, and with 
binoculars, the best I could conclude was that there were 1 or 2 tan lumps 
in the nest scrape.  I need a scope to see if there are young, but 
considering I saw apparent incubation on 6/5/2004, there may well be 
hatched birds present.

The Pied-billed Grebes are still at their nest on Adobe Creek, perhaps 
brooding the precocial young that Sidd saw.  Twenty to thirty dowitcher and 
a Whimbrel are present in Charleston Slough.  Those I could see well, a 
couple, were Short-billed.  The shorebirds return.

Bill

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