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Rick Bowes | all galleries >> 2013 Various Galleries >> 2013 shots taken in Duxbury not on the Beach > Forster's Tern - Bluefish River - Duxbury, MA - Sept. 21, 2013
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21-SEP-2013

Forster's Tern - Bluefish River - Duxbury, MA - Sept. 21, 2013

At the area where the Bluefish River blends into Duxbury Bay, a surprisingly large group of Forster's Terns (14) was flying up and down the channel at incoming mid-tide. Occasionally a few would light on a swimmers raft just offshore from King Caesar Road that was covered with Laughing and Ring-billed Gulls, and I was able to get this photo from the car at a tiny pulloff near the raft. Terns have been unusually scarce in the Bay this year - always a few Commons, but typically there would be dozens. Today I had only 3 Common Terns in addition to these 14 Forster's.

Canon EOS 40D
1/400s f/7.1 at 400.0mm iso100 full exif

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