[SBB] Parasitic Jaeger on Salt Pond A9

[Randy Little <[[email protected]]>]

Hi All,

I decided to leave the scope behind and took my
bicycle and binoculars to Alviso 
Marina County Park.  I did the circuit of salt ponds
A12, A11, A10, A9, A14 and 
A13.

I didn't see the Brown Booby today, but I did have a
Pelagic Cormorant in A11 
and one on the closed levee between A10/A11.  

At the far corner of A9 I saw a smallish jaeger
chasing a Forster's Tern.  It 
appeared to be a juvenile Parasitic Jaeger.  It didn't
have the dark cap, but 
was uniformily a warm, dark brownish color.  It chased
various Forster's Terns 
without much success of getting them give up any food.
 It landed on the water 
of A9 and floated for about a minute.  A fishing boat
was going out of Alivso in 
Guadalupe Slough and stirred up lots of birds that
flew over to A9, which caused 
the jaeger to take flight and I lost it in the mix.  

This was a little after 10am.  I called the Northern
CA Birdbox to report it, 
but reported it as on A10 instead of A9.  I also
mentioned it to Jack Cole at 
the EEC as being on A10.  It wasn't until I got home
that I figured out that it was on A9.

--
Randy Little
Milpitas, CA



 
Randy Little
Milpitas, CA



       
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