Just south of the southern end of Imperial Beach, the feasting continued today. I arrived around 1:30 pm or so, and watched the masses of terns, gulls, pelicans and shearwaters circling and diving, with many floating on the water.
By about 2:30 most of this mass had dispersed.
One anchovy washed ashore - surprising that so few seemed to make it to the sand, considering the chaos just off the beach.
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| The mass of birds at a slight distance. |
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| This was about the peak of activity that I observed. Coronado Islands in the background. |
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| At this point many of the birds were just a couple dozen feet out from the sand, with some right at the shore's edge. There were a few fish in the shallows in this spot. |
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| The cause of all the fuss (or more accurately, this one's buddies offshore!). |
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| There were small feathers all over the wet sand. |
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| Looking towards the north, the line of terns and other birds went on well into the distance. |
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