"It was rockin’. Then that stupid wave came in."
-- Lorraine Margeson
It’s hard to spot the least terns skittering around Fort De Soto Park.
But there are dozens of them.
The itty-bitty shorebirds look like little vigilantes, with black masking their eyes, scurrying around grass and sand mounds, largely behind a sign that says “DO NOT ENTER.”
The roped-off areas of the park are nesting sites for threatened shorebirds.
A couple of weeks ago, the area was flooded by a rogue wave that took beachgoers and park rangers by surprise.
It flooded the shorebird nesting site on the northern end of the beach, razing several nests.
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