Bolsa Chica wetlands: wildly successful

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A pair of elegant terns fight over a morsel of fish intended for a chicks in the nesting area at the Bolsa Chica Ecological Reserve in Huntington Beach. Nearly two years after ocean water was allowed to flow back into the wetlands, life couldn't be better for the birds and creatures who nest there and it call the sensitive area home.

Bolsa - Elegant Terns

( Mark Boster / Los Angeles Times )

A pair of elegant terns fight over a morsel of fish intended for a chicks in the nesting area at the Bolsa Chica Ecological Reserve in Huntington Beach. Nearly two years after ocean water was allowed to flow back into the wetlands, life couldn't be better for the birds and creatures who nest there and it call the sensitive area home.

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