common tern

Sterne pierregarin, Common Tern, Sterna hirundo To see more: http://www.FindNature.com

This was taken at the beginning of the summer on Anglesey. It was both an exhilirating and a frustrating day.Exhilirating because I love going to Anglesey, one of my favourite places. Frustrating because I missed so many shots of the terns as they were flying over my head.So I kept telling...

... as a sharper one to end my series about yesterday's Ireland excursion.

Common Tern

Always makes me sad when the Terns are gone from my local patches,feels like autumn is closing in and the birds will be scarce.

One tracking task I have not got a handle on yet is tracking terns as they dive. I've got a couple of decent shots at the start of the dive (this one is possibly my best so far), but they accelerate so fast that I lose them. When I catch up, they're already under water, or even already on their...

without any catch, apparently.

I didn't get the light/exposure quite right on this one, but the juvie's expression is so sweet that I thought I'd share it anyway. S/he was resting on this rock, about 20 meters from where I sat, for quite some time. I tried to inch closer, but didn't get far before s/he took off, so this was...

Makrellterne (Mackerel tern) sounds so much more exotic than "Common tern", or perhaps just more specific, and maybe overly so. I don't think this one was fishing mackerel. There were several pairs and their juvies fishing along the route I walked today - from Rotvollbukta to Gildefjra (Rotvoll...

After watching terns "commute" and fish further in this little bay on the fjord, I found their "home base" as I walked out of the bay and further eastwards along the fjord. Sat down on a rock on the shore and watched the little island for a while and caught this action...

A Common Tern flying in to land on its favourite perch at Strumpshaw Fen. I quite like the chevron shapes formed by the bird and the reflections of the branches in the water. Ron

Turned at the wrong time for me cheers now.

was just walking around the park when this Common Tern few by and almost imediatly dived into the man made salt water lake beside me and emerged with this fish

Right next to the Ship but protected. I was very close but both birds knew I could not get closer.

Common Terns resting after their busy breeding season. Cropped ISO 400 1/500 F5.6