Caspian Terns
While I am getting ready for a few days down in the Gray’s Harbor area chasing shorebirds, I had a day where I could get out and bird locally, and I realized the Caspian Terns were back from their winter sabbatical, so I headed out to Port Gamble hoping some would be there and that maybe I could get a few photographs.
I was not disappointed. It was a good day birding, and a better day taking photos of them, with 20+ species found and a good 45 minutes watching and chasing photos of the Terns and whatever else was around.
Here’s by far my favorite of the day (and possibly the year to date:
And no, the photo isn’t upside down, the bird is, having plunged in for a fish and flipping over as it regains altitude, shedding the water that came up with it.
About an hour of total birding, 450 images shot, and 26 of those keepers, and my collection really needed some nice recent tern photos… A very unexpected Greater White-Fronted Goose hanging out with the Canadas was also a nice surprise — and I finally (finally) saw a Least Sandpiper in the county.
