2000
| Date |
Location |
Note |
| 03/26/00 | Crescent | 23 terns and 1300 gulls on colony |
| 03/26/00 |
Three Mile |
3 terns near colony |
| 03/28/00 |
E. Sand |
Habitat improvements completed |
| 03/29/00 |
E. Sand |
First decoys deployed (25) |
| 03/30/00 |
Rice |
First decoys deployed (25) |
| 03/30/00 |
E. Sand |
First terns on colony (25) |
| 03/31/00 |
Rice |
First terns on colony (30) - before rocket netting |
| 03/31/00 |
Rice |
Rocket nets set out on colony, terns did not return |
| 03/31/00 |
Rice |
All decoys deployed (50 total) |
| 03/31/00 |
Rice |
0 terns on colony (after rocket netting) |
| 03/31/00 |
Rice |
Colony monitors on island |
| 04/01/00 |
E. Sand |
59 terns on colony (before sound system) |
| 04/01/00 |
E. Sand |
All decoys deployed (400 total) |
| 04/01/00 |
E. Sand |
Sound system installed |
| 04/01/00 |
E. Sand |
Colony monitors on island |
| 04/01/00 |
E. Sand |
154 terns on colony (after sound system) |
| 04/01/00 |
Rice |
0 terns on colony |
| 04/01/00 |
Three Mile |
4 tern near colony |
| 04/03/00 |
Rice |
50 more decoys put in area surrounding rocket net, sound system up and running |
| 04/04/00 |
Rice | 81 terns return to core area near decoys |
| 04/07/00 |
Rice |
Rocket netting began (60 terns captured, 40 radio tagged, 0 morts) |
| 04/10/00 |
Rice |
Suit filed to stop hazing |
| 04/10/00 |
Rice |
Rocket netting (87 captured and processed, 0 morts) |
| 04/11/00 |
Rice |
Rocket netting (85 captured and process, 0 morts) |
| 04/12/00 |
Rice |
Rocket netting (136 captured and processed, 0 morts) |
| 04/13/00 |
Rice |
Rocket netting (153 captured and processed, 1 mort - hit by rocket) |
| 04/14/00 |
Rice | Rocket netting (36 captured and processed, 0 morts) |
| 04/15/00 |
Rice |
Rocket netting completed (72 captured and processed, 0 morts) |
| 04/15/00 |
Rice |
Rocket nets, decoys, and sound systems pulled off the colony |
| 04/17/00 |
Crescent |
First egg observed |
| 04/24/00 |
Three Mile |
First egg observed |
| 04/27/00 |
E. Sand |
First egg observed (multiple eggs in nests, first egg on 4/24 or 4/25) |
| 04/27/00 |
Rice |
First egg observed |
| 04/28/00 |
Rice |
Court ruled not to lift injunction |
| 04/28/00 |
Rice |
Satelitte colony started in flagged area |
| 05/13/00 |
Crescent |
First chick observed |
| 05/19/00 |
Three Mile |
First chick observed |
| 05/21/00 |
E. Sand |
First chick observed |
| 05/21/00 |
E. Sand |
First day of radio-tagging on the East Sand Isalnd tern colony |
| 05/22/00 |
Upriver |
Aerial photo census conducted |
| 05/26/00 |
Rice |
First chick observed (approx. 3 days old) |
| 05/31/00 |
Estuary |
Aerial photo census conducted |
| 06/04/00 |
Three Mile |
Mink spotted on colony (heavy chick mortality observed previously) |
| 06/10/00 | Rice | First gull chick observed |
| 07/07/00 | Rice |
First fledged terns observed |