...And the Rains Keep Coming!

Please take note of my little observation written up below the TERN photo.  I'd love your input!!

 

For the last month or so, the storm fronts come in from the NW and from Old Mexico [Baja of California] almost daily...drenching our area that is already saturated. We have been staying home for weeks it seems. There may be a lull in the storms for a few hours and I try to get out of the yard in that interim. But, not always. As I said, the ground is saturated and the open, flooded, fields outside of town a ways are like magnets for some birds. I drove by one of those fields the other day and lo and behold, but not surprising, several Hudsonian Godwits [they literally "flock" to flooded fields along the migration passage] were feasting along with ducks, gulls and others. Then, one morning on the island, I happened to walk in a small park area along the ferry landing and then to the beach by the jetty before the storms arrived. Mostly terns and pelicans there, and an egret...

HUDSONIAN GODWIT
Habitat map: Godwit

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BLACK BELLIED WHISTLING DUCK
Habitat map: Duck


BROWN PELICAN
Habitat map: Pelican


DUNLIN
Habitat map: Dunlin


ROYAL TERN
Habitat map: Tern

Note: I have read that the male feeds fish to his potential "betrothed" to impress her. But, what I have noticed in the recent years as I watch them interact, there is a lack of robbery during this maneuver! What I mean is, when a fish is caught, usually there is a hoard of other terns and gulls trying to steal the catch...but during the courtship ritual, there is a lack of intrusion. Has anyone else noted this action? Do they know the intentions of said male, and leave him be to go on without invading or trying to steal?

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