There is a Season … Terns (Alameda Terns)
Lame Byrds pun aside . . . Forster’s Tern Nation in Alameda – Sterna forsteri Their gravelly call precedes them, these Forster’s Terns (Sterna forsteri) with their fuzzy black berets and orange feet....
View ArticleMore Alameda Terns: Caspian, Forster’s, Least Terns
Take a look at this image of terns — not because it’s anything spectacular. In fact, those terns were but specks on my visual horizon, so this is a dramatic crop to show just one thing: the size...
View ArticleThe Case of the Fledgling Gull
A short photo series, as I encountered it. A young gull waits for its parent. Parent arrives, gull follows behind and calls out for minutes on end. Juvenile gets more aggressive, tries for some food...
View ArticleMelee
No notes on this one . . . just gulls doing what gulls do . . . a skirmish over a bit of food. Okay, one note . . . [see the full-size photo ...]
View ArticleForster’s in Flight
When you first encounter terns, their mid-air, hairpin turns seem unpredictable and difficult to capture -- especially since these birds are quite small when you're thinking about filling the frame....
View ArticleFast Food [Gull] Nation
Part of what makes gulls both amusing and exasperating to humans is their cleverness and opportunism when it comes to food. Across the gull universe, the diet is omnivorous. They’ll eat crustaceans,...
View ArticleGull of the Revolution
Shot at the Seattle waterfront, framed by steam from Seattle Steam. Converted to B&W/sepia in Nik’s Silver Efex Pro.
View ArticleThe Maw
Two of a huge group of gulls, collecting on a duck pond during a fierce, Seattle wind storm.
View ArticleLes Mouettes Aimes Les Petits Pains
photos ©ingridtaylar – email me for permissions mouette = from Middle French mouette = from Old French moette = diminutive of Old French maoe (Anglo-Norman mave, mauve) = from Old English mǣw...
View ArticleThe One I Couldn’t Help
It was one of those precious sunny days in the midst of Seattle downpours. A Flickr friend of mine told me about a tugboat race on Elliott Bay, so I thought I’d walk the Terminal 91 bike path to the...
View ArticleAnthropomorphizing a Caspian-Peregrine Tussle
I’ve been grabbing Seattle’s ever-so-fleeting sun breaks to photograph a group of Caspian Terns who fish every evening on Puget Sound. I’ll post those shots soon. As I was packing up my tripod tonight,...
View ArticleThe Turns of Terns
I’ve described terns, with their distinct calls, as aerial barflies with too much whiskey and smoke on the voice box. Each tern is raspy in its own way, and Caspian Terns have a sharp croak that...
View ArticleTeaching the Kids to Forage
Juvenile gulls are as determined to get free food from their parents– as their parents are to wean them from the freebies. I’ve seen many adult gulls swimming or flapping away from their begging...
View ArticleDerelict Nets & Entangled Birds
Note: All gulls pictured in this post, and other trapped birds were freed from the netting. Follow Up on 10/21/11: I phoned today and learned that an official went out to this net, confirmed what we...
View ArticleFly On Sweet Angel
Angel came down from heaven yesterday She stayed with me just long enough to rescue me And she told me a story yesterday, About the sweet love between the moon and the deep blue sea;
View ArticleBird Noir
There are wildlife photographers who apologize for any urban elements — like street lamps — in their bird images. I embrace those shots, for three reasons: I admire the rugged survivalists that are...
View ArticleLow Tide Life
“When we contemplate the whole globe as one great dewdrop, striped and dotted with continents and islands, flying through space with other stars all singing and shining together as one, the whole...
View ArticleA Closer Look … for Birds in Trouble
This post contains one image of a long-deceased gull, just FYI. You’d think I would have learned my lesson last year, with the dead gull I found wrapped around a deterrent wire on a nearby warehouse …...
View ArticleBreaking in the New [Tern] Lens
So little time … and so little sun … but I grabbed some moments during Seattle’s first crystal days to break in the new lens. It’s four years in coming — four years of anticipating — four years of...
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