Date: 7/17/25 1:56 pm From: Matt Sadowski via groups.io <sadowskimatt99...> Subject: [SanDiegoRegionBirding] White Winged Tern final J Street update for this morning
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From: Matt Sadowski <sadowskimatt99...>
Date: Thu, Jul 17, 2025, 12:47 PM
Subject: Re: [SanDiegoRegionBirding] White Winged Tern final J Street
update for this morning
To: Paul Lehman <lehman.paul...>
The WWTE is back in pond 12, now joined again by an alternate BLTE.
Sadowski
On Thu, Jul 17, 2025, 10:36 AM <lehman.paul...> via groups.io
<lehman.paul...> wrote:
> 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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