Common Tern Fly-By
by Judi Dressler
Title
Common Tern Fly-By
Artist
Judi Dressler
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Photograph - Photography
Description
While visiting my son and his family in California, I stumbled across a colony of terns hanging out by the shore on the beach. Periodically they would all take off and then shortly afterwards, they'd land again fairly close to where they were before. I love this shot of them with the contrasting background!
From Cornell's website: "A graceful, black-and-white waterbird, the Common Tern is the most widespread tern in North America. It can be seen plunging from the air into water to catch small fish along rivers, lakes, and oceans. The Common Tern drinks mainly on the wing, gliding with its wings slightly raised and dipping its bill several times into the water."
Photograph taken June 19th, 2019, at Half-Moon Bay, California.
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August 29th, 2019
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Comments (13)
Christopher James
Congratulation.....your wonderful work has been featured in the 1000 Views on 1 Image Group ..... Please place your featured image in the Feature Archive and any other appropriate Archives l/f/p
Morris Finkelstein
Beautiful photograph of a flock of Common Tern in flight, with great perspective, colors, and composition, Judi! Nice work! F/L
Anne Gifford
I really like the white terns against the soft, dark landscape and sky. like/f Thank you Judi for sponsoring the Colorado Wildlife Habitat contest...I was honored to win!