[SBB] Elegant Tern, Parasitic Jaeger, Pectoral Sandpiper

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All,

Today 9/24/05, Mike Mammoser, Richard Jeffers, and I saw a juvenile PECTORAL SANDPIPER on the levee that runs along the southern edge of Salt Pond A16. The bird was about 1/3 the way from the EEC to the southwest corner of pond A16. We saw no Snowy Plovers in the northwest corner of New Chicago Marsh and none in the impoundment north of the Alviso Marina. In fact we saw none at any of the locations we surveyed for Snowy Plovers today. Where did they all go?

We did, however, see an ELEGANT TERN and a PARASITIC JAEGER (juvenile dark morph bird) with several hundred FORSTER'S TERNS on a closed refuge pond with no public access, but these birds could show up on any of the Salt Ponds where the tern flock forages. This is likely the same tern flock that I saw roosting on the A9/A10 dike back on 5 Sept. I found a juvenile Parasitic Jaeger on Salt Pond A9 exactly 5 years ago on 24 Sept 2000 (the last time this species was seen in Santa Clara County), so this could be a good place to check for this bird. The bird before the A9 bird was seen 17 - 26 Sept 1998 on Salt Pond A4 and at the nearby Sunnyvale WPCP ponds; it was carted off in a box in weakened condition on the last day of its stay.

Mike Rogers
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