Date: 7/17/25 10:36 am From: <lehman.paul...> via groups.io <lehman.paul...> Subject: [SanDiegoRegionBirding] White Winged Tern final J Street update for this morning
White-winged Tern finally disappeared at 9:45 after being present for a full hour and a half and then some. I first got on the bird this morning at 8:15 a.m. And it's the first time I even looked for it. I had been parked farther away looking at the couple thousand Western Sandpipers on the main J Street mudflats and then scoped farther, Saw that the bird was there, and then moved my car closer to the very end of the J Street parking lot. But the bottom line is the bird was already here when I looked. Who knows how long before that it was present. Low tide was at about the time I arrived, So it'll be a little later tomorrow, but it's already low enough, probably tomorrow at 8:00 a.m. Or even earlier. It needs to be lowish tide to have the places where the terns were sitting exposed and available to them. Looking Southwest from the end of J Street/ Marina Parkway parking lot toward that marshy peninsula, along the front edge there will be two groups of five weird Rocky structures in the water right in front of the mud edge and those structures we refer to as the oyster balls. White Winged tern regularly sat on those along with A bunch of forsters and one or two 1-Year-Old Commons. On a couple occasions, the White-winged also sat farther to the right either on the mud or in the first group of rocks that's another 100 yds to the right. Obviously the earlier one is here the lighting is better. I'll come back tomorrow and probably arrive here before 8:00 and look again. Right about the time the bird departed today, the seabreeze picked up and that is something probably it uses to find food at Pond 12, so presumably it may have already gone over there.
Paul Lehman, San Diego
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