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Posted by Vince Lucas on 17:35:08 08/19/08
On a whim, I went down to Laudermilk Park, here in Naples, to see what, if anything, TS Fay had brought in off of the Gulf. Who do I meet when I reach the main covered pavilion off of the parking lot? Alan Murray of course! Alan said he had been there about a half-hour or so and he was pretty sure he saw a Sooty Tern. Together, over the next 1.5 hours or so, we saw four more Sooty Terns as well as a half-dozen or so Black Terns, a few Royals and many Sandwich Terns. One lone Magnificent Frigatebird, some Laughing Gulls, a Brown Pelican or two, a Double-crested Cormorant and a few shorebirds were also seen: Willet (1), Short-billed Dowitcher (15-20 & Sanderling >50. Sooty Tern is rarely encountered in Collier County, usually after a strong storm or hurricane. The winds were steady out of the west/northwest at about 30-40 mph and gusting to over 50 mph at times.
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