I stopped by Wrightsville Beach again today for about an hour. The nesting season begins, and I witnessed lots of mating activity. The first shot shows a Tern calling out, and later being joined by its mate.

Wrightsville Beach, NC. I usually point my camera towards the water cause the sun is with me, but I never get to shoot the nesting colony. In the morning, it is back-lit. I did today to get some different shots and different lighting. If nothing else, it's good practice shooting and processing.

Common Tern drying itself off after an unsuccessful dive for fish.

Spain; Murcia, Los Alcazares 13/9/21

The fish did not see it coming!!

Common Tern

Mattino presto, scatto a mano libera, distanza circa 30 mt.

Rye Harbour NR

Val-d’Or.

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Kalatiira; Common Tern; Sterna hirundo

Sterna hirundo

Common Tern

Cronovilla

Two Common Terns.

Sterna Hirundo

Birds living along the coast drink salt water. They do not seek fresh water even when it is available nearby. Like many seabirds, they have nasal glands that excrete the excess salt.

Nickerson Beach, NY

by Tim Matthews

Wrightsville Beach, NC

Sterna hirundo

Common Tern

A common tern chick begging for food as the adult tern flies off!

Wrightsville Beach was beautiful today at 6:30 am. It was interesting today watching some of the tern chicks beginning the first stages of flying.

Common Tern / sterna hirundo. Straws Bridge, Derbyshire. 12/08/22.

'ONE METHOD OF COPING IN A HEATWAVE.'

Newly fledged and having escaped the confines of the tern raft, this juvenile enjoyed a prolonged bathing session. One of two juveniles, its sibling was nearby with the female parent bird in attendance.

BEST VIEWED LARGE.

Long Island, NY

Spotted during a boat trip from Ely to Cambridge today. Shortly afterwards I lost my lens hood overboard, but that is a different story.

It isn't clear whether the one on the wire is a chick being fed, or a female being wooed.

Sterna hirundo

Sterna hirundo

Common Tern

Salina di Comacchio

by Tim Matthews

A juvenile Common Tern in flight.

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diving tern

Took this photo as a large flock of Terns hanging out on Caladesi Island took flight and circled me.

Dennis Point Wharf

Lower West Pubnico

Nova Scotia

July 2021

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Common Tern with a spearing bait fish for it's mate or little one. Stone Harbor Point, NJ.

Long Island, NY- March 2023

Common Tern

It is best to shoot with a west wind so that the birds are flying towards you. While shooting the wind direction changed and came out of the east then suddenly all I would have shot were tail shots.

"...go away !"

Tid for to

Common Tern / Flußseeschwalbe (Sterna hirundo)

A Common Tern headed down the lens.

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A common tern with her flapping chick :-).

Wrightsville Beach

Common Tern with a fish it's caught.

Titchfield Haven, Hampshire

I spent the last month traveling in my RV in the Maritimes. It was wonderful, even though there weren't as many photo opportunities as I had hoped.

J'ai passé le dernier mois à voyager dans mon VR dans les maritimes. Quel bonheur, même si les occasions de photos n'ont pas été aussi nombreuses que je l'aurais espéré.

New Brunswick, Canada