I'm no expert and the pictures aren't ideal, but I think the terns are
the 'Common Tern', certainly they are about the right appearance and the
feeding behavior fits. The other bird is almost certainly a juvenile
black-crowned night heron. Nice picture of it!
Moose
Stephen Scharf wrote:
>I went by the Berkeley Aquatic Park tonight to see if I could see my
>feathered friends and was rewarded with four different birds to
>photograph.
>
>I know the egret and black-crowned night heron that hang out there,
>but I noticed a small, *very* fast bird that was fishing by diving
>like a Stuka dive bomber. Here are some photos I shot. I apologize
>ahead of time for these photos-they're not great, I post them here
>only for identification purposes. The first one has poor framing,
>and for the most part, they are backlit; it was about 8:05 PM, hence
>the warm lighting. This guy was really fast, and as I was shooting at
>420 mm handheld with my D60, trying to get another egret shot when
>this guy came swooping by. With (only) three AF zones, I had a real
>hard time keeping up with him and just keeping him in the viewfinder
>with his speed and my very narrow angle of view. I was wondering if
>you guys could tell me what it is....my guess is it's an arctic tern
>that happened by while migrating, but as I 've have never seen one
>for real, I don't know.
>
>
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