Hi All, I spent about an hour at Sandpiper Beach this morning and didn't have luck with the Arctic Tern. It's point was overpopulated by Franklin's Gulls with a few Ring-bills and Caspian Terns in between. I estimated about ~19,000 Franklin's Gulls on the lake and flying about shortly after I arrived and most were off the lake when I left a bit after 10:30. Of note otherwise was a scolding Sedge Wren in the grasses on the beach below, a couple of flyover American Pipits, and watching a male Cooper's Hawk attack a passing Great Blue Heron.
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