Saturday 26 April

Baby 'least tern'



Not sure what this is

Today was another cool and windy day with a few short showers during the morning. We had booked to play golf at the Carmel Highland Golf Resort course just after 1.00 p.m. so decided to go and visit Lake Hodges which was relatively close to the course. The lake was a reservoir for San Diego and was open for recreation for 3 days per week. We saw some interesting birds including some baby 'least terns' which were scuttling along the water's edge. There were a few more species, some of  which we are still trying to identify from our trusty USA bird book.

We then moved on to the golf course, which proved to be not particularly well maintained on the front 9. The course was very compact and quite a lot of it was by the main I-15 interstate road. We saw a humming bird which was fascinating particularly when it seemed to be completely stationary in mid air - never long enough to get a picture. For the record we drew pointswise