Juvenile on the left, adult on the right and a couple of Silver Gulls in front. 
Two adults in almost full breeding plumage in the front.
A juvenile in flight. 
Rainbow Beach is south of Inskip Point and I decided to go up to the Sand Blow which is only a short distance from the town. There are tall sand cliffs between Rainbow Beach and Double Island Point. These cliffs are constantly eroding and at this point they have created a 'sand blow' from the sea side well over onto the land on the west. The sand is constantly moving and encroaching further west.
Looking across the sand blow. People walking across give an idea of the size of the sand. 
Looking east towards Double Island Point. 
Looking west - part of the town of Rainbow Beach is in the foreground, Carlo Creek with boats at anchor is on the right in the middle of the photo and boats at anchor near Tin Can Bay in the background. 
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What an extraordinary place! Crested terns are interesting and beautiful birds!
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ReplyDeleteNice flight picture. Still waiting for a tern or two to turn up at the wetlands.
ReplyDeleteThanks Tony. Wonder why you don't see any? Too far from the coast?
ReplyDeleteTop photo of the flying juve, Mick.
ReplyDeleteI really must get down to the coast.
Gorgeous birds, and beautiful photos!
ReplyDeleteThanks Snail, and because there are so few shorebirds left at this time of the year I am thinking I need to know more about the birds that DON'T live on the coast!
ReplyDeleteThat must be a magical place.
ReplyDeleteLove those Crested Terns (any bird with funny things on their head - wonder why :D)
The photos are beautiful!
Nature is slowing down over here, it gets way too hot.
I guess summer is almost over where you are, no?
That was a cool looking kind of tern. I saw some new ones,to me that is, in Camargue. But I had no time to go through all of teh photos yet. :)
ReplyDeleteG'day Mick,
ReplyDeleteGreat Tern shots, but I loved those landscapes - the temperature barely got into the teens here yesterday! When I was mowing fairways, I was so rugged up I looked like the Michelin Man.
Gouldiae.
Thanks for commenting Nicole, Naturefootseps and Gouldiae. It's finally getting cooler here too but not in the middle of the day when it is still 'shorts and shirt' weather. The nights are finally cool enough to need a blanket on the bed. It's sure different living here in the sub-tropics - but I like it much better than the times I have lived with snow and ice in the winter! Brrh!!
ReplyDeleteI don't know, I think ice and snow has it's merits. OK, not when it last 6 months or more. But Hungary has been a nice place for that, about 4 months of winter, with two of them with some snow and ice.
ReplyDeleteI like that :)
Here, I just feel like a bloaded balloon all day *sigh*
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Hi Nicole, too much heat can be as bad as too much cold I guess. When the temperature goes too high here it is always possible to go down to the sea and cool off with a swim.
ReplyDeleteThat's what I let my dogs do this morning, we found a spot where we could go in without security chasing us away.
ReplyDeleteOn my walk back I went past my current fav birding spot, an old abandoned 'village' with an old sewer system.
While I watched a flock of bee-eaters and a mystery heron, 2 purple herons, barn swallows, buzzards, catlle egret, 1 Hoopoe, squacco herons,…the dogs took the Liberty to swim in one of the deeper Leftover pools. At least they came out clean *uhm*,....
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Hi again Nicole, that's an interesting lot of birds to watch from the one spot and I am sure the dogs enjoyed their swim. The bay waters here are often so still that I have seen people take down plastic chairs, a beach umbrella with a long pole - and set up in waist deep water with drinks etc etc. Very pleasant!
ReplyDeleteVery interesting Terns! Superb captures, great work Mick!
ReplyDeleteThanks for commenting BirdingMaine
ReplyDeleteNice captures. Looks like a wonderful area. :)
ReplyDeleteGreat shots of the Crested Terns Mick! The in-flight shot you got of the juvenile is to die for! Fantastic!
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