common tern

A very early morning visit for hunting barn owl proved unsuccessful so a visit to Doffcocker lodge for the terns proved a bit more fruitful

Common Tern

I don't like to upload different crops of the same picture, but I'm not sure which I prefer with this. I uploaded the full frame recently, but this is the first (of many) crops that I tried. Don't worry, I won't upload the other crops|=)|

Tern were chasing each other around and occasionally flew vertically whilst continuing to combat each other

Well I've tried about 12 different crops on this, but I've given up trying to decide which was best, so it's full frame.|=)| From the Reservoirs this morning

I met a common tern with his fish when I passed with the boat in the lagoon of grado

Distant, so a heavy crop, but I think I caught it with a wing touching the water.

Common Tern

or more likely,fish in sight.

Common Tern

Well Peeps, Im on my way back to Hastings this morning, after spending a nice few days in Lakenheath. I didnt get as much birding in as I would have liked, but it was great to spend time with family and friends. Im meeting up with Hazel in London around mid-day today, and we will be doing the...

Taken on the beach Minsmere

This tern and its mate were nesting in a small, shallow depression atop a large boulder that emerged from the waters of Mooseleuk Lake in the northern Maine wilderness. The photo shows one of the birds stretching atop the same near-shore boulder. The bird reminds me of a ballet dancer.

Not sure what will happen with some of these at the Reservoirs this year. There's Tern Rafts on a number of the Reservoirs, and the Terns use them each year for nesting. One of the popular rafts has been taken over by a pair of Lesser Black-backed Gulls, and despite being mobbed by at least 6...

"Billy no mates" is an expression i've seen many times on BF,so i felt sorry for him. ;);

Never thought I'd manage a shot of a Tern in flight but the extremely strong winds helped me out. The Terns would fight hard to make their way up the reservoir, against the gale, making their progress very slow (and thus possible to photograph, just). They'd reach the end of their sortie and...

Common Tern

It is great to see the Terns returning again. There were Common, Sandwich and Little Terns at Minsmere on Saturday. I just need to work out how to photograph them now. Ron

in more ways than one. ;); Spent a couple of hours together with terns yesterday,this is one of the shots.

One of several flying and shouting their way around Old Hall Marshes

Common Tern