Black Skimmers and Terns fill the air

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p.1 #1 · Black Skimmers and Terns fill the air

In defence of there nests, the colonies of black skimmers and terns blast off at once creating confusion for attackers. When I first started photographing them, it worked quite well at preventing me from getting flight shots. Today I've learned to pay attention to my subject or composition of the group and I suspect there pray eventually figures it out as well.

Comments and suggestions welcome,

Morris

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Jul 04, 2025 at 07:03 AM

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p.1 #2 · Black Skimmers and Terns fill the air

That's a lot of terns! Cool group Morris.

To everything, (tern?,) turn, turn
There is a season, turn, turn, turn...

Eric

Jul 04, 2025 at 08:09 AM

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p.1 #3 · Black Skimmers and Terns fill the air

Erictator wrote:
That's a lot of terns! Cool group Morris.

To everything, (tern?,) turn, turn
There is a season, turn, turn, turn...

Eric

Great song. Sadly the tern numbers are way down. There are usually about 2,000 terns in the colony before the chicks are borne yet this year it's about 500. Very sad to see.

Morris

Jul 05, 2025 at 07:54 AM


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