Date: 8/7/25 11:19 am From: Nancy Christensen via groups.io <nancy.r.christensen...> Subject: [SanDiegoRegionBirding] WHITE-WINGED TERN
This long staying rarity keeps changing its pattern of behavior. Today was present on Pond 11 (viewed from the Bayshore Bikeway parking lot (32.6020160, -117.1239815)) from at least 6:50 am until around 9:30ish.
The bird is easy to see if flying with its fluttery flight, very low to the water. If not flying it often sits on a muddy patch described here…
From halfway out along the dike (32.6020337, -117.1224892), looking south. Out in the grass beyond the visible water/mud there is a wooden structure/platform with three legs. To the right of it, in the water/mud there are two white poles, neither of which are vertical. The tern likes to sit on the mud between the base of those 2 poles. As the tide rose today, it sat on the taller of the two poles.
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