Showing posts with label Elegant Tern. Show all posts
Showing posts with label Elegant Tern. Show all posts

Tuesday, July 06, 2021

Elegant Tern twitch

 clearly something wrong with me at the moment - got up yesterday and decided to drive to Anglesey for the Elegant Tern - Cemlyn is a great place though and the cacophony from the 1000's of terns in the colony and the location are superb;  over the years have seen Bridled and Sooty Terns at Cemlyn and my only UK Forster's Tern along the coast at Point of Ayr; this bird was a real chameleon with regard to bill colour which in the intense overhead sun looked rather bright yellow but had a more orange tone to the base in duller flat light but never the red of birds I have seen in California; it was going out to sea and catching a fish then attempting to present it  to Sandwich Terns so you assume it is a male; 

The light made photography difficult but the R6 certainly picked it up with ease over the island and the water - a bit distant on the ground fro my 400 with 1.4x but always nice to watch terns in July