Today the island was full of young cormorants, herons, and egrets. Young birds of all sizes were mauling the adults for food. There were no young gulls present and the couple of apparent Ring-billed Gull nests that I had memorized did not appear to be nests anymore.
The pelicans have apparently not hatched their young yet. We saw no young and most of the pelicans appeared to be sitting on eggs. Hard to estimate how many nests there are. Easier to wait to count the young running around in a while. Of interest were the two Caspian Terns in a flooded field just south of here (northwest corner of Hwy 15 and Meeker Cty Rd 18.) There had been two terns on the rookery island in late May. Are these the same? Who knows! Dennis and Barbara Martin [email protected]
