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volunteers are working on new security mea- sures, he indicated. Allan Worms, a wildlife biologist, wrote that at 6:15 a.m. on June 20, a Sarasota Audubon volunteer spotted tire tracks indicating the two-wheeled vehicle had entered the posted nesting zone on the south side and exited it on the north side. All of the signs and stakes on the south side had been taken down and carried back into the section of the beach where the Least Terns were nesting, Worms continued. In retrieving the signs and stakes, Worms wrote, the volunteer "also noticed numerous [Least Tern] eggs were destroyed" and that perhaps 30 fewer Least Terns remained inside the nesting area. A wide variety of birds has been observed over the past months at a 'watering hole' near Beach Accesses 4 and 5 on Siesta Public Beach. File photo Tire tracks and paw prints both were discovered in the vandalized beach nesting area near Accesses 4 and 5 on Siesta Key. It is illegal, under county law, to take a dog onto the beach. Photo courtesy Sarasota Audubon Sarasota News Leader June 27, 2014 Page 11