Re: [SBB] Black terns

["Garrett Lau" <[[email protected]]>]

I was there this morning (Saturday, August 11), too. I watched the
Black Skimmers on the second island for 45 minutes. During that time,
the adults flew four times to chase away egrets and gulls. They also
sometimes walked out to the edge of the 10-yard perimeter that you
mentioned.

My photos of these skimmers are at the usual place:
http://www.pbase.com/garrettlau/recentbirds

There were also two skimmers on the first island. They stayed put for
the most part, but I did see one fly around once. Last night at sunset
there were three flying around the first island, and one staying put.
I suspect that the extra two were from the second island.

After Frank showed me the two Black Terns in his telescope this
morning, I walked out towards the third island and found them on two
different perches. One was a crossbar, but the other was a low,
square, floating object.

Garrett Lau

On 8/11/07, Al Eisner <[[email protected]]> wrote:
> Jack Cole wrote (for Aug. 11):
>
> > A black skimmer chick emerged briefly from under a parent on the second
> > island.
>
> I was walking out as Jack returned.  In fact, both Skimmer chicks are
> still being brooded by adults on the second island.  (They are of course
> appreciably larger than they were last weekend.)  While the island has
> many Gulls, there was a substantial gap in teh gull population for
> perhaps 10 yards on each side of the Skimmers, so they are evidently
> keeping the area clear, although I didn't see any interactions while
> I was there.
>
> By the way, I spotted the two Black Terns on a wooden structure out in
> A16 from the far end of island 3.  The crossbar one was on must have
> been prime real estate, because a Forster's Tern evicted it.
>
>                                                                Al Eisner
>
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