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2011
Season
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2008
Least Tern & Snowy Plover Project
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| July
2nd - Tern
Preserve Update from David |
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morning, Susan and Hal Sheakley reported a male American Kestrel
take of a chick from the Preserve. Time was 0645. Wally Ross
and I were there and set out a raptor trap within the Talbert
Wetlands Preserve with the help of Lena Hayashi. We saw the
kestrel watching the mouse in the trap, but when he flew,
he went into the Preserve and took another tern chick. We
scared him away and he flew across river to some palms in
the Newport Mobile Home Park. Keep your eyes peeled for this
bird, and call Wally or myself right away. We can only trap
this bird when it is out and active. |
| As
crows appear to be on the upswing in summer activity we took
a chance to keep more pressure on this species. |
| Junior
Lifeguards ran down to the Preserve and got their orientation
on the biology of this endangered species and how it relates
to their world. |
| Cheryl
Searcy saw one Snowy Plover this morning. There has only been
one other in the last several weeks. |
Thanks
for all of your efforts at the Tern Preserve.
—David
Pryor |
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