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2010
Least Tern & Snowy Plover Project

August 25 - Year End Barbecue & Awards
 
Close to 20 Least Tern project volunteers attended the End-of-the-Year Barbecue at the Huntington Beach Life Guard Headquarters. The food was delicious, the barbecued items were tasty, and everyone enjoyed socializing before the meal. After dinner, Cheryl Egger showed photos she had taken of Snowy Plover chicks which were rescued from abandoned nests at Bolsa Chica and cared for at the Wetlands & Wildlife Care Center. Cheryl described each stage of their development and talked about the plover chicks' behavior. Claire Grozinger told us about her involvement monitoring the new Least Tern nesting sites at Bolsa Chica. David Prior announced the 2010 California Least Tern Awards for our volunteer group (see list below). He also shared with us some of the more interesting observations he'd received from our LETE monitors and reviewed some of the stats from this year's LETE nesting season at Huntington State Beach.
 
2010 CA Least Tern Awards - presented by David Pryor
1.
 Team Lithgow Honorable Mention for total Team Hours - Together.
Together with his kids, Doug showed up every Sunday morning.
   
2.
 Team Searcy Honorable Mention for total Team Hours - Separate
Working separate shifts, but back to back hours. That's more coverage for the colony - Thanks. 
   
3.
 Rookie of the Year & Double Shifter Award - Denyse Serrano
Denyse had great observations and worked mostly 4 hour shifts. 
   
4.
 Rookie Team of the Year - Jennifer Cummerman & Alex Thomas
Jennifer and Alez worked the Saturday morning shift — a usually busy one. They made some very good observations.
   
5.
 Wet and Drippy Morning with Bat Award - Lori Donohue
It was raining every time I saw her. We saw a bat together at 8 in the morning.
   
6.
 Outstanding Observation of Year - (Common Tern) - Irene Horiuchi
Check the books out ; this probably does not happen very often!
   
7.
 GoldenTongue Depresser Award - Pat Vranicar
For her special work at the Earth Day CLT interpretive table. 
   
8.
 Photographer of the Year Award - Holly Fuhrer
Holly took thousands of snaps during all stages of the terns' development and shared a CD with us.. 
   
9.
 Most Outstanding Two-person Team - Ross & Patti Griswold
Ross and Patti gave many visits, spent lots of time, shared lot of pictures, and also spent time at Bolsa Chica with the EONS program. 
   
Thanks!
Along with these awards —Special Thanks for long-term, outstanding efforts towards the survival of this endangered species goes out to::
 
•
 Dick Zembal and biologists who spent long hours with high concentration, counting nests, eggs, chicks, fledglings, and predators
 
•
 Nancy Kenyon and her work coordinating information through the Tattler and the Sea & Sage Audubon Society website. All of our colony postings are archived on their website.
 
•
 Wally Ross for some big efforts this season. There are some wary raptors out there because of Wally.
 
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 23 new docents this year and the returning crew - Thanks!
 
•
 Cheryl Egger - for her timely, expert coordination and understanding of this organization — I am personally, deeply indebted.
Last Modified May 23, 2010

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