{"id":5216,"date":"2010-04-15T14:14:57","date_gmt":"2010-04-15T21:14:57","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.thefreequark.com\/?p=5216"},"modified":"2010-04-15T14:14:57","modified_gmt":"2010-04-15T21:14:57","slug":"forsters-in-flight","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.ingridtaylar.com\/?p=5216","title":{"rendered":"Forster&#8217;s in Flight"},"content":{"rendered":"<div id=\"attachment_5218\" style=\"width: 690px\" class=\"wp-caption aligncenter\"><a href=\"https:\/\/www.thefreequark.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2010\/04\/tern.jpg\"><img decoding=\"async\" aria-describedby=\"caption-attachment-5218\" src=\"https:\/\/www.thefreequark.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2010\/04\/tern.jpg\" alt=\"Forster&#039;s Tern in Flight\" title=\"tern\" width=\"680\" height=\"510\" class=\"size-full wp-image-5218\" \/><\/a><p id=\"caption-attachment-5218\" class=\"wp-caption-text\">Forster's Tern - \u00a9ingridtaylar<\/p><\/div>\n<p>I&#8217;ve written about these gorgeous Forster&#8217;s Terns in the past so I&#8217;ll just direct you to a few related words if you&#8217;re interested:<\/p>\n<ul>\n<li><a href=\"https:\/\/www.thefreequark.com\/2009\/04\/alameda-forsters-terns\/\">There is a Season &#8230; Terns<\/a><\/li>\n<li><a href=\"https:\/\/www.thefreequark.com\/2009\/05\/alameda-terns\/\">More Alameda Terns: Caspian, Forster&#8217;s, Least<\/a><\/li>\n<\/ul>\n<p>I shot this fly-by at <a href=\"https:\/\/www.thefreequark.com\/2009\/07\/mud-cracks-of-coyote-hills\/\">Coyote Hills Regional Park<\/a> the other day . . . the same place which inspired my <a href=\"https:\/\/www.thefreequark.com\/2010\/04\/never-underestimate-a-cattail\/\">treatise on cattails<\/a>.<\/p>\n<p>When you first encounter terns, their mid-air, hairpin turns seem unpredictable and difficult to capture &#8212; especially since these birds are quite small when you&#8217;re thinking about filling the frame. One one level they are tough to photograph. Terns rise and fall, juke left and right in minute movements that make autofocus with a tele-zoom a little tricky. The number of photos I have without perfect eye focus attests to that &#8212; and to the limitations of my budget lens. <\/p>\n<p>Once you watch them long enough, though, you realize there is, indeed, a method to their flying madness. And generally, even as they zig zag out of lens range, they tend to return and scope out the same fishing grounds for at least a few passes before they move on.<\/p>\n<p>This Forster&#8217;s Tern was doing loops over the flooded marsh at Coyote Hills. In the time I was there, his efforts yielded one small fish . . . visible in this grainy crop, shot too far out of my range.<br \/>\n<div id=\"attachment_5217\" style=\"width: 310px\" class=\"wp-caption aligncenter\"><a href=\"https:\/\/www.thefreequark.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2010\/04\/ternfish.jpg\"><img decoding=\"async\" aria-describedby=\"caption-attachment-5217\" src=\"https:\/\/www.thefreequark.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2010\/04\/ternfish.jpg\" alt=\"Forster&#039;s Tern and Fish\" title=\"ternfish\" width=\"300\" height=\"197\" class=\"size-full wp-image-5217\" \/><\/a><p id=\"caption-attachment-5217\" class=\"wp-caption-text\">Forster's and Fish - \u00a9ingridtaylar<\/p><\/div><\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>When you first encounter terns, their mid-air, hairpin turns seem unpredictable and difficult to capture &#8212; especially since these birds are quite small when you&#8217;re thinking about filling the frame.<\/p>\n<p><a href=\"https:\/\/www.thefreequark.com\/2010\/04\/forsters-in-flight\/\">[see full-size photo &#8230;]<\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[1],"tags":[168],"class_list":["post-5216","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-uncategorized","tag-terns"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.ingridtaylar.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/5216","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.ingridtaylar.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.ingridtaylar.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.ingridtaylar.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/users\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.ingridtaylar.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcomments&post=5216"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.ingridtaylar.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/5216\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.ingridtaylar.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fmedia&parent=5216"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.ingridtaylar.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcategories&post=5216"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.ingridtaylar.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Ftags&post=5216"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}