Common Tern Taking Off

Taken at Popham Beach, ME. 300 2.8 + 1.4x

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the one behind it had actually just scared it off. It flew a few feet and landed again.

Some more images from the Maine Trip, bigger on my flickr page in my signature.

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These are terrific Brent, #1 is beautiful, colours, sharp, all spot on.
Love the side view of the tern.

Impressive main image. The fact that you have the 2nd bird in its entirety makes this image really nice. The expression in the 1st bird is the topper. Nice shooting.

Very good series Brent . Well Captured :)

very nice images, but the first has a distracting BG unfortunately.

ooops, switched to sRGB and i lost em.

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interesting comments on the bird in the bg. seems some people love it, some people hate it.

Love that first shot, great detail and expression. Personally I like that you got the second bird in the background.

Love the shots - what lens did you use. I tried over the hols to capture Turns hunting and diving into the water and failed miserably because the dart and turn on a farthing - about the size of a dime.

Great shots - respect.

Roger

Very nice Brent. You just keep showing more and more versatility as a photographer. Keep it up.

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Originally Posted by readingr

Love the shots - what lens did you use. I tried over the hols to capture Turns hunting and diving into the water and failed miserably because the dart and turn on a farthing - about the size of a dime.

Great shots - respect.

Roger

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respect - makes me think of Ali G. Ever seen it?

I used my 1d and 300 2.8+1.4x for the tern shots, and the 2x for the osprey shot. It is indeed very hard to stay focused on them as they are quick little birds. Unfortunately they barely did any diving the day I was there, the water in the tidal river was low enough that they could just skim. They were catching mostly sand eels. It's really pretty dependent on the AF capabilities of your camera and lens, so the 300 and the 1d were very capable. Though I wish I had a 400 5.6 because the 300 2.8 is just too much to handhold steadily, and a monopod greatly slows down your tracking of these quick birds.