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Elegant Terns are back at the Bolsa Chica Wetlands! One of the most exciting times to myself and many local photographers.

Canon EOS 7D2 @ 400mm ---- 1/4000s--- f/7.1--- ISO 400

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Surbird about to land. Orange County(CA)

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Forster's Tern missing its target(look close to its feet)

Bolsa Chica(CA)

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Dunes at dusk, Ouargla(Algeria)

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Juvenile Peregrine Falcon fleeing a murder scene with its prey(Dove)! Bolsa Chica(CA)

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Elegant Terns courting, she's hoping he brought a fish! Bolsa Chica(CA)

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Elegant Terns having a heated argument, Bolsa Chica(CA)

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Great Egret struggling to keep both, the head and the tail of this Alligator Lizard. Bolsa Chica(CA)

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Elegant Tern about to land. Bolsa Chica(CA)

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Forster's Tern about to loose a fish while holding another one by its tail! What to do? The Tern had to think very fast... while swallowing the one on its beak, he maneuvered quickly to grab the other one and ate it as well! The whole action lasted less than 2 seconds!

Bolsa Chica(CA)

Canon EOS 7D2 @ 400mm ---- 1/2000s--- f/5.6 --- ISO 1250

note: the exifs above are correct, I accidentally forgot to change my settings and this picture was a little toooo overexposed! Glad I shot it RAW

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Love it when Burrowing Owls hover then suddenly drop, usually I get the sky, this time I got lucky. Burrowing Owl Juvie, Southern California.

Thank you for you visit, catching up.

Canon EOS 7D @ 400mm ---- 1/2000s--- f/6.3 --- ISO 800

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Great Egret snacking on a Potato Bug also known as Jerusalem Cricket. Bolsa Chica(CA)

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Elegant Tern catching back its fish! Bolsa Chica(CA)

Canon EOS 7D @ 400mm ---- 1/4000s--- f/7.1 --- ISO 320

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Elegnat Tern hovering while looking for its next prey. Bolsa Chica(CA) Summer 2015

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Foggy but we can still see each other, Peregrine Falcon at Point Fermin.

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Great Egrets fighting over food, they were fetching insects. San Jacinto(CA)

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Forster's Tern catching back its fish! Bolsa Chica(CA)

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Lucky shot of a Black Skimmer fishing at Bolsa Chica(CA) -- May 2016

Canon EOS 7D2 @ 400mm ---- 1/1250s--- f/7.1 --- ISO 800

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Alligator Lizard caught by a Great Egret, Bolsa Chica(CA)

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Last catch of the day, this is one of the many fishing techniques Elegant Terns can perform. Bolsa Chica(CA)

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Birds in flight are amazing and so is this Least Tern doing its thing with a fish in its beak! Huntington Beach(CA)

Canon EOS 7D2 @ 400mm ---- 1/3200s--- f/7.1 --- ISO 400

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Forster's Tern going after a slippery catch. Bolsa Chica(CA)

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White Pelican enjoying the sunset mood, Bolsa Chica(CA)

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Settings: 1/250 --- ƒ/7.1 ---- ISO 400 @ 400mm

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Caspian Tern snatching a fish, San Joaquin Wildlife Sanctuary, Irvine(CA)

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Male Red-breasted Merganser taking off, Bolsa Chica(CA)

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Reminds me of 100m sprinters taking "off"

Snowy Egret, Orange County(CA)

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Cooper's Hawk plucking a Mourning Dove before devouring it

Settings: 1/250 --- ƒ/7.1 ---- ISO 400 @ 400mm 7D

Fully framed capture of Least Terns mating. Least Terns display one the most entertaining courting/mating ritual I've seen so far. Foggy early morning, Huntington Beach(CA)

Canon EOS 7D2 @ 400mm ---- 1/1250s--- f/8--- ISO 800

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Snowy Egrets settling a dispture over a fishing hotspot, this is what happened next from the previous picture, I'll spare you the stabbing and drowning picture. Fortunately, the one in the bottom made it to safety.

Canon 7D2 @ 400mm --- f7.1--- 1/3200--- ISO 500

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This is the back side of th Hamiz Dam located in Northern Algeria, 35km from the capital Algiers. Spring 2014.

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Fully framed capture of Least Terns mating. Least Terns display one the most entertaining courting/mating ritual I've seen so far. Foggy early morning, Huntington Beach(CA)

Canon EOS 7D2 @ 400mm ---- 1/1000s--- f/7.1--- ISO 640

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Not much details at the stage but it was spectacular to watch, taken from Bolsa Chica(CA)

@cbjphoto & @bmse. Any ideas on the pouch? anyone?

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Close up capture of a female Anna's hummingbird striking a pose. Bolsa Chica(CA)

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Elegant Tern with a 2fer. Bolsa Chica(CA)

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Enjoyed The Breitling Huntington Beach Airshow over the weekend, it was awesome! This is Screamin Sasquatch, which is powered by two different engines.

Canon 7D2 @ 200mm --- f4.5 --- 1/800--- ISO 400

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One of the many fishing techniques Elegant Terns can perform. Fast and precise, this sequence was shot in .6 seconds. Bolsa Chica(CA)

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Settings: 1/800 --- ƒ/8.0 ---- ISO 200 @ 400mm 7D

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Great-horned Owl waiting for the sun to set in order to hunt and feed her chicks. Bolsa Chica(CA)

Canon EOS 7D2 @ 400mm ---- 1/400s--- f/6.3 --- ISO 1000

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Clark's Grebe, Bolsa Chica(CA)

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Elegant Tern fishing at the end of the day! Bolsa Chica

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One of the many fishing techniques Elegant Terns can perform. Fast and precise.

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Royal Tern stretching at Huntington Beach(CA)

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I know... I've been bombarding you with tern pictures! This one is special for me, the very fist time I see a tern Flipping a fish a eye level, it did it almost as soon as it came out from the water(about 1m from the surface)

Elegant Tern, Bolsa Chica(CA)

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Burrowing Owl, Chino Hills(CA)

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