Tern Family

Gallery: AvianPosted October 6, 2011124 views2 comments

Spent some time this summer with the numerous arctic terns that nest here annually. It is not known specifically where arctic terns from Alaska spend the winter, but birds from the entire northern hemisphere are thought to intermingle around Antarctica.

As always, comments & suggestions are greatly appreciated.

Anchorage Coastal Wildlife Refuge, AK
Sony A200
Sony 75-3000 @ 75mm
1/400 sec @ f5.6
iso 100

Comments

2 comments

Comment posted by Hans Overduin on October 7, 2011 at 9:24 AM

Wow, beautiful colors in this image ! Nicely showing there behavior as well: the little ones with the beaks open and upwards when one of the parents arrive

, like it ! Cheers, Hans

Registered on August 31, 2011, 491 Posts, 3807 Comments

Comment posted by Ashley Vincent on October 9, 2011 at 2:27 AM

Marvelous capture Guy, beautifully enhanced by the blue reflected in the water's surface. By way of offering a suggestive thought, although this may indeed be full frame, in which case it's too late, if you have cropped some from around the edges I'd consider reintroducing some of that; in my eyes I think it would make even more of a picture.

Registered on March 1, 2011, 154 Posts, 2083 Comments