9/30/13

 

Not a bad day, clear skies and light south winds.

22 CANG
1 WODU
1 ABDU
3 MALL
79 BWTE
1 GRSC
2 HOGR
37 DCCO
24 SAND
1 BOGU
6 FOTE
50 COTE
1 ARTE (Ahh, the dreaded other Sterna tern. This one spent about 20 minutes feeding offshore in poor lighting with a Forster's Tern  during the 7th hour before making one close pass by the pier, before being joined by a handful of Common Terns and the group headed north. I posted this as a juvenile, but in hindsight and poking through some books I think it was actually a basic adult or subadult)

 Crappy ARTE pic, the 2011 ARTE was a little more photogenic