Photo of the Week: Tasty Tidbit for a Tern

Gray tern with black cap and black-tipped orange bill, extends its wings at it quickly flies off after diving into the water to catch a small fish in its bill.

In the midday heat of the summer, I don’t typically see many birds active in marshes.

A few Great Egrets and Great Blue Herons can be found along the shorelines.

Or perhaps a Wood Duck with their duckling family or Trumpeter Swans with their cygnets.

It can be pretty quiet in the marshes, except for the calls of the Red-Winged Blackbird.

But I’ll often see terns as they fly and circle over canals and marshes.

Continue reading Photo of the Week: Tasty Tidbit for a Tern