kiwifoto.com » royal tern http://www.kiwifoto.com/blog "Adventures of a wandering widlife photographer" Sat, 15 May 2010 04:28:48 +0000 en hourly 1 http://wordpress.org/?v=3.0.1 Ballona Creek http://www.kiwifoto.com/blog/2008/04/21/ballona-creek/ http://www.kiwifoto.com/blog/2008/04/21/ballona-creek/#comments Tue, 22 Apr 2008 01:53:30 +0000 ctaylor http://www.kiwifoto.com/blog/?p=11 I headed out to Ballona this afternoon to see what spring migration has brought to the beach. Nothing new but the Terns were out and about dancing and trying to steal each other’s food.

Caspian Tern

Caspian and Elegant Terns

Sanderling’s were in quite large numbers as they’re working their way north toward Alaska and they are starting to show a lot more of their breeding plumage now.

Sanderling

The rest of the images are available here.

]]> http://www.kiwifoto.com/blog/2008/04/21/ballona-creek/feed/ 1 Elegant Terns on display! http://www.kiwifoto.com/blog/2008/04/01/elegant-terns-on-display/ http://www.kiwifoto.com/blog/2008/04/01/elegant-terns-on-display/#comments Thu, 10 Apr 2008 16:56:52 +0000 ctaylor http://kiwifoto.com/blog/?p=5 The Terns have arrived en masse @ Ballona signifying spring has arrived! Good numbers of Elegant Terns, Royal Terns, Caspian Terns and Forster’s Terns.

Elegant Tern

Elegant Tern

Caspian Tern

More pictures, here.

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